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How high is that cloud?

If you feel curious to know how high (or low) a cloud is, you can learn now how to calculate it.

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Height = 125 x (outside temperature ºC – dew point ºC)
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Disappearing candy floss

Piña colada, barbapapá que se va


Piña colada, barbapapá que se va / Piña colada, disappearing candy floss (2004) © elBulli Restaurant  Photography by Francesc Guillamet

Piña colada, barbapapá que se va / Piña colada, disappearing candy floss (2004) © elBulli Restaurant Photography by Francesc Guillamet


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The mascletá correguda

Urban spaces at the origins of a tradition

The mascletá as we know it today seems to have its origin in an act of movement: the mascletá correguda or ‘runned mascletá’. In the mascletá correguda, long strings with fireworks (the so-called traca) are disposed along the streets of a village or neighbourhood. The fireworks are lit at one extreme and explode all along the way, allowing people to run under the exploding fireworks or along with it, ‘accompanying the fire’.

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