A profound but mostly unrecognized demographic and economic trend is unfolding around the world right now. The average human life span is growing enough that for the first time in recorded history, four generations can routinely expect to be alive at the same time. To be sure, this trend is countered somewhat by the increasingly older ages at which many women give birth; in 2010, the mean age of mothers at the birth of their first child was 25 or higher in most industrialized countries. Even so, with more people living into their late 90s, the 4-Gen society that is taking shape can be expected to last at least one more generation, and probably much longer.
Achievement rarely produces the sense of lasting happiness that you think it will. Once you finally accomplish the goal you’ve been chasing, two new goals tend to pop up unexpectedly.
We long for new achievements because we quickly habituate to what we’ve already accomplished. This habituation to success is as inevitable as it is frustrating, and it’s more powerful than you realize.
O fotógrafo britânico Barry Cawston passou pela Alfândega do Porto para apresentar a sua exposição dedicada às obras de Banksy, o polémico artista de rua cuja identidade continua a ser um mistério. «Dismaland and Others» mostra imagens do projeto Dismaland, parque temático satírico e grotesco que o artista montou.
Segundo o jornal britânico Telegraph, a Organização Mundial do Turismo – principal organização internacional nesta área -, divulgou o seu estudo anual, «Tourism Highligts», com dados estatísticos referentes a 2017. Nesta publicação é possível descobrir os países menos visitados do mundo. E, acredite ou não, até na Europa existem nações que são pouco desejadas pelos turistas.