Between the snow, summer parties, and homemade fortune cookies

In the Alps, as in the whole world, glaciers are gradually reducing their thickness significantly. We have seen pictures, read articles about it. But now it’s time to listen to the noise. “Ghiaccio Sottile” is a new podcast (out June 5 on Ripple Sound) that aims to take a scientific, cultural and geographical exploration journey to tell the story of melting glaciers over eight episodes. David S. Sapienza journalist, author of texts, together with Lorenzo Pavolini, narrator of the podcast, in more than a year of work and expeditions with the hero of the snow, invite us to contemplate the constant change of climate on our planet. , In evidence, characters linked to the ice and water cycle: from geologist and mountain guide Michele Comi to Carlo Barbante, director of the CNR Polar Institute, head of several expeditions to Antarctica; From the geographer and explorer Franco Micheli to Giovanni Prandi, president of the Lombardy Glaciological Service. And while Sapienza and Pavolini describe their exploration of the Adamello mountain group to describe the largest Italian glacier, we’ll also hear sounds recorded by composer and sound designer Neunau, who lowered his microphone into crevasses and faces . Glacier, realizing the installation “Sound Ablation”. Much attention is also paid to the work of the Eurocold Lab of the University of Bicocca in Milan, a polar-temperature laboratory in a controlled contamination environment, together with Walter Maggi and Claudio Artoni and Admello Park biologists Ana Maria Bonettini. Will be able to find and study after the disappearance of glaciers. Finally, “Thin Ice” moves to Antarctica to describe the million-year-long climate cores and archives that allow us to predict the extent of the current crisis, and then to Cape Horn, with Antarctica on the horizon, it also to understand how the internal geography of each of us changes.

what to note

On Sunday June 18th Hello Summer! With, BAM Biblioteca Alberi Milano celebrates the arrival of the summer season with a day of free activities for all and a special focus on music, thanks to the participation of Milan’s G. Verdi Conservatory, Teatro alla Scala, Performances by Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado and Samuel Dei Subsonica, collective Le Cannibal, Bandacadabra and Banda D’Fori.

It begins at 8 a.m. with BAM Yoga Open Air #Wellness, dedicated to awakening the body through the “Sound Healing” method and healing power of sound. Dedicated #Prakriti appointments for gardening and green care have been confirmed. From 10 to 18 in the De Castilla Garden, BAM Workshop Kids and Adults #Education The Dragonfly Wings takes place, a participatory action, one of the most popular events of BAM Season Days, involving children and their families in building an aerial is done. Sculpt sound with recycled materials. Hello Summer! It ends at sunset with a concert by Subsonica’s frontman Samuel, surrounded by Bandakadbra, which starts at 20.30 in the Meli area in an explosive mix of horns and electronics.

what to read

It’s one of Blackie Addizioni’s most successful books, so it’s back in reprint. by “The Simpsons and Philosophy” Aeon J. Scoble – Mark T. Conrad – William Irwin Thanks to Homer, Nietzsche and collaborators for how to understand the world. This is an introduction, entertaining and at the same time very rigorous, to the work of Aristotle, Kant, Heidegger, Sartre and many other thinkers. And if what the legend says is true, that is, nothing happens that hasn’t already happenedTo happened in an episode of The Simpsons, then, as we learn more about them, we can learn more about our world as well. This is the perfect summer book for our kids, they will learn more about philosophy while having fun.

what to watch

Sky Cinema Sci-Fi returns from Monday 19 to Sunday 25 June, a channel dedicated to the literary and cinematographic genre that has helped redefine our cultural imagination and made us dream of the future and envision different scenarios for our planet have helped. Knope premieres with over 40 titles in the programming (Wednesday 21 at 21.15 on Sky Cinema Uno and 21.45 on Sky Cinema Collection).

Danger Comes From Space in Deep Impact with Morgan Freeman, Robert Duvall, Ti Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave when a meteorite is on a collision course with Earth, and in Moonfall, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson, where two astronauts and a conspiracy theorist must prevent the Moon from falling to Earth due to a mysterious force.

Other forms of life also come from space, not always friendly, as in these titles: Mars Attacks!, Tim Burton’s homage to the 1950 science fiction film, which stars a super cast led by Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close. directs; Three chapters of the “galactic” saga starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones as a pair of super secret agents who monitor the aliens inhabiting Earth and protect it from threats, Men in Back, MIIB – Men in Black II and Men in Black in black 3; And the brilliant Edge of Tomorrow, with Tom Cruise in the role of a soldier who is caught in a time loop, relives the battle against a race of aliens multiple times.

Author Philip K. The films made from Dick’s brilliant science fiction writing cannot be missing: Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise; John Woo’s Paycheck with Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman; and Ridley Scott’s sci-fi hit Blade Runner with Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer.

We find Harrison Ford in command of a ship on a space adventure in Ender’s Game; While we get Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt in Passengers’ space travel, directed by Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game).

Finally, mention must be made of Elysium with Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, a fantasy-action set in 2154 in which a worker rebels against the established order whereby the wealthy class live in a coveted space station while the rest of humanity lives on Earth. survives, and Luc Besson’s blockbuster Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, starring Cara Delevingne and Dane DeHaan as two government agents sent to the metropolis of Alpha to confront the forces threatening the universe Are.

what to listen

Aware Stories from Gionata Agliati, Full Awareness Meditation Teacher, coming exclusively to Storytel on Wednesday, June 21. A podcast that begins with stories from the Buddhist tradition, together, episode after episode, exploring 8 themes at the heart of our days, of our times, of every day. The names of mind, fear, anger, perfection, attachment, acceptance, impermanence and finally death: a compass to orient yourself on this journey of meditative exploration? Awareness only. The podcast will be presented in Milan on Thursday 22 June at 7.30pm by Hugh Milano at Via Giulio e Corrado Venini 83, the actress Margot Cicaboni in dialogue with the author Gionata Agliati.

what to cook

As a child, Elena Lina Cai lived in the back room of a small 30 square meter shop on the ground floor of a railing house in Chinatown, Milan. The aunt lived upstairs and there was only one kitchen for the whole family. A house that smelled of rice wine. Then she went to Florence. And here he lived in a factory which – in his words – was practically a commune, a large block of flats where several families lived. A bracket in his life, before returning to Milan, always in the Sarpi area and staying there, even when his parents decided to return to China. Elena Lina Cai had made her decision: “For me, at that moment, a door closed. I had severed all contact with Chinese culture, from movies to friendship, including cooking”. until everything is back with his friends. And in this book, his journey to rediscover authentic Chinese cuisine that can be easily replicated at home.

Here’s a recipe for some scrumptious fortune cookies that, as Kai points out in the book, are not sugar at all. “It looks – says the author – that they are derived from a Japanese biscuit. They have become very popular in the United States thanks to Chinese restaurants and, although they are not at all common in China, I find them very tasty. Especially if, as in this case, we can customize the messages to be placed inside. A great idea for homemade gifts or placeholders for dinner with friends”.

Component. 1 egg white, 50 grams sugar, 60 grams flour 00, 40 grams butter, one third vanilla bean seeds

Method Beat the egg whites with the sugar, cut a vanilla pod, scoop out a third of the seeds and add them to the mixture. We mix the melted butter and the flour, until it is completely incorporated. In a pan covered with baking paper, pour 4 tablespoons of the dough and spread into thin circles about 8 cm in diameter. We bake at 180 ° C for 8 minutes, when the edges turn golden.

We must act quickly to fold the biscuits, because as soon as they cool a little, they will harden and we will not be able to shape them. We put the stamp in the middle and fold the biscuit in half. Then we take this crescent and place it folded side up on the edge of a bowl, we fold the ends down to get the classic fortune cookie shape. Be careful not to burn your fingers. We repeat for another two batches with the rest of the dough. Always make four at a time: more, you run the risk of them cooling and becoming tough.