At 25, we are the prey to much silly ceremony. Lacking white gloves as cool as a lettuce, is a severe setback, and can be the cause for the handsomest lad to not marrying. Not a few are those who

Today I think I learnt what stopping short means. You know, I came across this reel on Facebook with an excerpt of Seinfeld. It shows a scene where George's father is furious with Kramer and wants to

Not many people know that back in the 1960's The Beatles were invited by NASA to land on the Moon. In 1966--that is, a few years before Armstrong and Aldrin's momentous feat--Wernher von Braun

A few days ago, lostintranslation's posts about El túnel worked as a spur for my reading the novel again. The thing is that rereading literature that for some reason or other was important to you

Do you find AI as uncanny as I do? Not always, but many times, I can't help but to feel a shiver when confronted --mostly on the net, of course-- with images of synthesis that seem to be getting more

When the tent is full, the man orders the child-minotaur to stand up. He gets up from his chair and stares at the crowd inside the tent for the first time. He looks over us, forced to turn the head

I just saw a Tik Tok video on Twitter that looks like an extract from an interview with Harrison Ford a few years ago. I assume the interview is coming to an end, and the host is asking Ford whether

Ich habe dieses Bild kürzlich auf dem Internet getroffen, und darauf habe ich mich an das berühmte Zitat von Mallarmé, das im Titel steht, erinnert. Ich bin nicht sicher ob dieses Gerät um Deutsch

Today I learned the verb 'to silo' existed, by coming upon its derived adjective 'siloed'. I know what a 'silo' is, since I live in a Spanish-speaking country whose economy depends on a strong

For a few days I've been planning to make some comments on a ritual that has become quite popular lately--these makeshift funerals you sometimes spot at the seaside, people dispersing the ashes of

Julián entertains the girl with "The Private Life of Trees," a series of tales he's made up to put her to sleep. The main characters in the tales are a poplar tree and a baobab--at night, when no one

In nature, Nelly said, there are things that exceed any proportion—things that cannot be set side by side with each other, that don't conform to any measure whatsoever, since they lie outside the

Ehrenfest would firmly align on the side of these new insights, but even if he didn't oppose--as his friend Einstein did--the revolutionary principles Bohr, Heisenberg, Dirac and Born were bringing

- Ciao, Vittorio! Non sapevo che vedresti alla manifestazione! - Ciao, Chiara! Che sorpresa trovarti qui! Ma, pensandoci bene, era pure logico che tu ci vedresti. - Tu invece mi ricordo che dicevi

One month after the fire, after a few days of enduring a sore back, Samuel finally caught the bus and went to the city. He thought he had seen a second-hand shop near the railway station--he even had

Avete mai sentito parlare dell'uomo di Tollund? Io ho saputo di lui quando ero bambino. Mi ricordo che è accaduto una sera in cui mio nonno era ricoverato in ospedale. Siamo andati a trovarlo, mia

This man--Sami Birwala, if Samuel rightly recollected his name after so long--would refuse the chair that Samuel's father offered him with a kind gesture every time, and just sit on the carpet like a

Samuel needed a chair. He needed it badly, since his small cottage in the woods had caught fire and most of the furniture had got lost or was damaged beyond repair -- among it, the only four chairs

This morning, I learnt that John Barth passed away yesterday. Not that I knew much about this writer, but I always remember The End of the Road, a novel with many black comedy streaks that made a