Photo: on Twitter/New Beverly CinemaJuan VilloroIn 1946, automotive engineer Louis Réard presented an invention capable of stopping traffic: the bikini. The two-piece garment was named after the atoll where the first atomic bombs exploded.Photo: Louis Réard on wikipedia.orgTwenty years...
Photo: Aaron Burden on UnsplashJuan Villoro"Man thinks because he has hands." Aristotle quoted this attractive phrase of Anaxagoras with the enthusiasm of one who is about to refute it. For the author of Ethics, ideas are not a consequence...
Photo: on themeateater.comJuan VilloroThe rocks surrounding Chiloé Island are inhabited by a unique species of cold. Among them are two varieties of penguins with the surnames of explorers, the Magellanic and the Humboldt. Less well known is the cormorant,...
Photo: A.PAES on ShutterstockJuan VilloroThe King of soccer has died in Sao Paulo, in a hospital appropriately named after Albert Einstein, as the death confirms the theory of relativity: the deceased is immortal.Photo: Koolshooters on PexelsFor my generation, Pelé...
Photo: Art and Roam on ShutterstockJuan VilloroSometimes the customs of a famous country are celebrated in another with little resemblance to it and is unlikely to carry them out.Photo: Mario Rodriguez on UnsplashI refer, of course, to Christmas, a...
Photo: Kaan Durmuş on PexelsJuan Villoro"There are no two without three," warns an artists' proverb. When two members of the guild die, the death of a third is expected. Whenever that happens, the proverb proves true.Photo: Priscilla du Preez on...
Photo: Rahul Sapra on PexelsJuan VilloroHealth only exists when we lose it. Under normal circumstances, we do not realize that we are breathing. Illness represents an opportunity to value a healthy body and even to understand the world differently....