The cardinals have given themselves a last feast before the conclave. The menu that began in 1274 can last too long

He conclave that will take the cardinals to the election of the new Pope can be eternalized. The story, as we will see below, is full of examples that give us an idea of ​​what can happen when those doors are closed. To get an idea, the meeting that ended with the announcement of Gregorio … Read more

The precedent closest to the great blackout of Spain was lived in 2003. And it also began in the interconnected network

Few events show our electricity dependence as a mass blackout. And few blackouts have been as extensive as the one that has affected all of Spain today. But there is a precedent of similar characteristics that still remember in neighboring Italy: the great blackout of 2003. The day Italy was dark. On September 28, 2003, … Read more

Before the lack of steel, the ships of World War II began to be built with an unusual material: concrete

Close your eyes and think about the main material of a ship. Quite possibly Wood is the first Let it come to mind, and it is normal: we have millennia sailing in wooden ships, and we continue to do so. But it is also logical that the steel that dominated the XX and XX shipsand … Read more

Barcelona began to excavate to build a parking. Ended up discovering a medieval ship of 10 my and uncertain origin

His intention was to build a new parking, but the team in charge of the works of the Ciutadella del Coneixementin Barcelona, ​​has ended up doing something very different: finding an archaeological finding that has already captured the interest of the historians of the Catalan capital. And it’s normal. What technicians have located under the … Read more

In 1995, a reading club began reading James Joyce’s most difficult book. 28 years later it is finally finished

More than a quarter of a century has taken Gerry Fialka, a Californian experimental filmmaker, in bringing a very ambitious purpose: a reading club of ‘Finnegans Wake‘, James Joyce’s book that is famous not only for his extraordinary literary quality, but for the difficulty involved in his pages. Literary nightmare. ‘Finnegans Wake ‘was published by … Read more

A user bought a state -of -the -art connected dishwasher. There began his nightmare

“I will not connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud.” That has been The declaration of intentions From Jeff Geerling, a well -known YouTuber, after buying a new household appliance. It is something that we are living for years: the condemnation of the products that force us to spy on everything they do because if … Read more

We thought we were 8,000 million people throughout the planet. Until some researchers began to make numbers

In November 2022, the UN celebrated that we were already 8,000 million humans on earth. They are estimates, of course, but beyond the figure, the really interesting thing is that in 2023 We do not reach the replacement rate and that humanity will reach its peak at the end of the century to, irremediably, Start … Read more

In 1938 Franco commissioned an experiment with prisoners in a monastery of Burgos. Thus began the search for the “communist” gene

In the list of darker experiments that once launched in Spain there is one that continues to remain in the top positions. It happened at the end of the 1930s inside an architecture that today is historical heritage, A abbey trapped on the outskirts of Burgos. The basis for carrying out the study started from … Read more

I have detected the exact moment in which things in Marvel began to fail and that has culminated in ‘Captain America’

Until the weekend, when the public’s opinion begins to fly over the Internet (which in the end is the one who pays and the one that interests Disney, since the consensus of criticism and public they generated ‘Infinity War‘ and ‘Endey me‘It is unlikely to be repeated again), we will not know if’Captain America: Brave … Read more

In 1995, a Peugeot 205 GTI crashed in Sweden. Then began a world revolution in road safety

It is estimated that 9,344 people died in traffic accidents in Spain in 1989. It was a real barbarity and a historical peak that, luckily, it seems that is far from repeating. These last ten years, Spain has moved among the 1,145 deceased in 2023 and 1,873 of 2014. They are still too many and … Read more

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