Portrait of Lluis Reales

Journalist

(1962 - September 30, 2024). He was an associate professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and journalist, expert in science and the environment.

He held a Degree in Information Sciences and a Master’s Degree in the Psychology of Cognition and Communication from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and was head of the Unitat de Divulgació [Disclosure Unit] at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans. He worked at La Vanguardia as a science and environmental columnist and, between 2001 and 2019, he designed, directed and presented the television programmes Einstein a la platja [Einstein at the Beach], Respira [Breathe], Terrícoles [Earthlings] and Deuwatts on betevé. He also directed the magazine Medi Ambient. Tecnologia i Cultura [Environment. Technology and Culture] (1992-2014). He is co-author of the book Medi ambient i comunicació. De l’evolució cultural a l’evolució conscient [Environment and Communication. From Cultural Evolution to Conscious Evolution] (Beta Editorial, 1994) and was a member of the Catalan Water Agency’s panel of experts on reclaimed water.

Last Update: October, 2024

Articles by Lluís Reales

View of Sant Miquel Beach with the W Barcelona Hotel in the background. © Imatges Barcelona / Clara Soler Chopo
Coastlines are sinking

Imagine New York City without the Statue of Liberty, Copenhagen without The Little Mermaid, Guangzhou without the Canton Tower, St. Mark’s Square in Venice submerged, Easter...

View of the Besòs riverbed, from the Molinet bridge. © Imatges Barcelona / Àlex Losada
Strategies to tackle water shortages

As the well-known song by Raimon goes, “in my country rain doesn’t know how to rain: it either rains too little or it rains too much; if it rains too little, it’s a drought; if...

Retrat de Vicenç Viaplana. © Mariona Gil
“We can no longer be sure of what we’re seeing”

Vicenç Viaplana

Never had so much work been exhibited and so much at the same time by the artist Vicenç Viaplana (Granollers, 1955). A truly free soul, advocate and researcher of painting, this spring...

Retrat de Ramon López de Mántaras © Curro Palacios Taberner
“A good artificial intelligence system would anticipate the outbreak of a new pandemic in two or three weeks”

Ramón López de Mántaras

Artificial intelligence (AI), a term coined in the late 1950s, is a common topic when talking about the future of work or the transformation of cities. The application possibilities for...

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