The science behind the feeling that childhood summers never end
El País Englishby Irene Mollá Segura6d ago
A two-year-old boy watches, mesmerized, as ants march in a line across the sand. He pokes at them with a stick; some climb up his arm.
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87%‘He was deaf, gay, and cried in all his songs’: Johnnie Ray, the brilliant and forgotten rocker who paved the way for Elvis
El País Englishby Jordi Bardají6d ago
“He was deaf, gay, and cried in all his songs.” Such are the words of filmmaker John Waters describing singer Johnnie Ray in a recent interview with The New Yorker’s Michael Schulman.
‘Luis Buñuel: 1.73 meters tall, freckles on his face’: The Spanish exodus to the Americas after the Civil War, told through 100,000 documents
El País Englishby Manuel Morales Ruiz9d ago
The Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900–1983) was 1.73 meters tall, had thick eyebrows, a straight nose and some freckles on his face.
David Crowley’s razor-thin victory in Wisconsin primaries exposes Democrats’ deep division
El País Englishby Luis Doncel9d ago
The metaphor was perfect. Three and a half hours after the polls closed this Tuesday, each candidate had 39.9% of the vote, with a margin of fewer than 200 ballots.
Vlaada Chvátil, inventor of the hit game Codenames: ‘I’m a perfectionist’
El País Englishby Tommaso Koch10d ago
Whenever he is working on a new board game, Vlaada Chvátil thinks about it constantly. “Every spare minute,” he says. Whether he is in the shower or awake at 3 a.m.
Tourism with an ex‑drug trafficker: Laureano Oubiña offers ‘narcotour’ to the spots where he once smuggled tobacco and hashish
El País Englishby Elisa Lois11d ago
Laureano Oubiña, a historic figure of smuggling and drug trafficking in Spain, doesn’t mind being called the Hashish King.
Christiane Martel, the first French Miss Universe, tells her Mexican story
El País Englishby Abel Fernández12d ago
For Christiane Magnani de Alemán, the first French woman to be crowned Miss Universe in 1953, the impossible does not exist.
Ric Prado, ex-CIA officer: ‘Cuba is the next apple to fall from the tree’
El País Englishby Antoni Belchi16d ago
Enrique “Ric” Prado is 75, his voice measured from having told this story many times and from an uncomfortable habit: saying in public things most people with his résumé prefer to keep to...