Me preguntan por una buena traducción de La Odisea. Hay cuatro excelentes: las de Luis Segalá, José Luis Calvo, José Manuel Pabón y Carlos García Gual. La de García Gual (Alianza) es la que recomiendo para un lector actual no especializado. La de Segalá me parece elegante, solemne y clásica; la de Pabón es clásica y fiel; y la de Calvo (Cátedra) tiene un magnífico aparato introductorio, notas y orientación filológica.
El soneto fue considerado el rey de los formatos poéticos: dos cuartetos y dos tercetos. Lope creó algunas obras maestras, como este soneto memorable que 500 años después no ha perdido un ápice de vigencia.
Este es, quizás, el vídeo más descarado de la Final de la Copa del Mundo. Todos vimos cómo Enzo Fernández casi mata a Pau Cubarsí, pero si te fijas, más abajo, un jugador de Argentina, Nicolás Tagliafico, ve la tremenda patada de su compañero y, sabiendo que la ha cagado, se le ocurre tirarse al suelo y fingir una lesión. Enzo recibe la tarjeta roja, pero Messi se acerca al árbitro señalando a su compañero argentino caído (a Tagliafico) diciendo que está lesionado. Afortunadamente no coló. Son delincuentes, no jugadores de fútbol.
Esta es la carta que Virginia Woolf escribió a su marido Leopold poco antes de cargar sus bolsillos con piedras y arrojarse al río Ouse, en el que falleció ahogada el 28 de marzo de 1941. Diversos estudios actuales han diagnosticado que Woolf sufría de trastorno bipolar.
A brief history of Einstein's relativity: The special and general theory ✍️
1887: The Michelson–Morley experiment fails to detect any motion of the Earth through the luminiferous aether, a hypothetical medium for the propagation of light.
1892–1904: Hendrik Lorentz develops the Lorentz transformations, a set of equations that relate the coordinates and time of two inertial frames moving at a constant velocity relative to each other. He also introduces the concepts of length contraction and local time to explain the null result of the Michelson–Morley experiment.
1900: Max Planck proposes the quantum hypothesis, that light consists of discrete packets of energy called quanta, to explain the black-body radiation phenomenon.
1905: Albert Einstein publishes his paper on special relativity, in which he derives the Lorentz transformations from two postulates: the principle of relativity and the constancy of the speed of light. He also shows that mass and energy are equivalent, according to his famous equation E = mc².
1907: Einstein introduces the equivalence principle, which states that the effects of gravity are indistinguishable from those of acceleration.
1908: Hermann Minkowski presents his four-dimensional spacetime formulation of special relativity, which unifies space and time into a single entity.
1911: Einstein predicts the gravitational redshift, that light loses energy as it escapes from a gravitational field, thus shifting to lower frequencies.
1915: Einstein completes his general theory of relativity, a theory of gravity that describes gravity as a consequence of the curvature of spacetime caused by mass and energy. He also applies his theory to explain the anomalous precession of Mercury's orbit.
1916: Einstein predicts the existence of gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime that propagate at the speed of light and are produced by accelerating masses.
1919: Arthur Eddington confirms Einstein's prediction of the gravitational deflection of light by observing the bending of starlight during a solar eclipse.
1926: Einstein writes an essay on space-time for Britannica, explaining his theories in simple terms.
1960s–1970s: The golden age of general relativity, when many new solutions to Einstein's field equations are discovered, such as black holes, wormholes, and cosmological models.
1974: The discovery of the Hulse–Taylor binary system, a pair of neutron stars orbiting each other and emitting gravitational waves. This provides the first indirect evidence for gravitational waves.
2015: The first direct detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations, from the merger of two black holes. This confirms one of the major predictions of general relativity.
2019: The first image of a black hole's shadow by the Event Horizon Telescope, showing the effects of extreme gravity on light around a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. This provides another test for general relativity.
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I asked my audience what contributes to Spain’s high life expectancy.
The highest in the EU at 83.18 years between the sexes.
Here are their responses — the serious, insightful, and outright hilarious:
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Con el frío que hace, te proponemos un viaje por cinco guisos icónicos de nuestro país para que saborees el cuchareo en cualquier punto de nuestra geografía.
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Memorial Masieri, Venecia (sin construir). Frank Lloyd Wright.
Nace por encargo de la viuda del joven arquitecto Angelo Masieri para construir una fundación para estudiantes de arquitectura. El edificio se situaba en una pequeña casa en el Gran Canal propiedad de la familia Masieri, junto al Palazzo Balbi. Tras una fuerte polémica en la ciudad, no se materializa el encargo.
Vía Carlos Bento Company.