Ahir, dimecres 9 de setembre, més de cinc-centes persones van omplir la Sala Gran del Museu Marítim de Barcelona per celebrar que un domini d'internet fa vint anys. Dit així sona a excusa per fer un vermut. Però el .cat és una de les coses més improbables que ha aconseguit mai la societat civil catalana, i val la pena explicar per què.
For most of history, flavor was a mystery you could taste but never see. Then a machine came along that could pull an aroma apart, molecule by molecule, and tell you exactly what it was made of — and in doing so it revealed something strange: two completely different sources can smell like the same thing because they carry the very same molecule.
The names Jacob, James, Santiago, Jaime, Jacques, Giacomo, Iago, and Tiago look like they have nothing to do with one another. They are, in fact, the very same name — reshaped over centuries by every language it passed through.