Orcas Appear to Be Sharing Their Prey With Humans—but What Does It Mean?
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Go Behind the Scenes of the Running of the Bulls – Smithsonian Magazine – 2025
Go Behind the Scenes of the Running of the Bulls
July/August 2025
A young Ernest Hemingway on what would prove his most fruitful trip to Pamplona, in July 1925. Illustration by Nigel Buchanan (detail)An offbeat journey to the legendary Spanish festival 100 years after the life-changing trip that inspired Ernest Hemingway to write “The Sun Also Rises”
Tony Perrottet
Photographs by Charlotte Yonga and Francisco Bravo
July/August 2025Key takeaways: What is the running of the bulls?
One of Europe’s most popular gatherings, the running of the bulls takes place over nine days in Pamplona, Spain. Each morning, a small herd of bulls runs through the village streets, chasing thousands of participants clad in all white with red scarves.
The festival catapulted to worldwide attention after the publication of Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, which chronicles the Spanish tradition.In the annals of European travel, few summer holidays have been so artistically productive as the trip taken by the aspiring 25-year-old writer Ernest Hemingway in July 1925 to Pamplona, the elegant Spanish provincial town in the foothills of the Pyrenees. “Hem,” as he was called by his friends, traveled from Paris with his first wife, Hadley Richardson, to attend the annual Festival of San Fermín, whose most famous element is the running of the bulls, where mostly young men in white outfits with red bandanas and sashes race a dozen enormous bulls and steers through narrow cobbled streets, with the occasional bloody goring or stomping along the way.
It was an immersive event with an electric mood, as he had found during his first visit with Richardson two years earlier, when he had jotted notes: “Fifes, drums, reed pipes … red neckerchiefs, circling, lifting, floating dance, all day all night, leather wine bottles over shoulder, flat Basque caps or wide straw hats, faces like smoked buckskin, flat backs, flat hips, dancing, dancing …” He was dazzled by the spectacular daily bullfights, as well as the fireworks, bands on the plaza, packed cafés, cheap wine and faces in the crowd: the “faces of Velázquez’s drinkers, Goya and Greco faces.”
On their third and most dramatic visit to the festival, in 1925, Hemingway and Richardson were joined by five Anglo-American expat friends, all heavy-drinking, rootless bohemians like himself. The intense, alcohol-fueled, sexually charged interaction inspired Hemingway to write his first and arguably finest novel, The Sun Also Rises, using thinly veiled characters and incidents from the sojourn. The milestone of Modernist literature was published in New York the following year, immediately putting the young author on the path to international celebrity as the voice of the postwar “Lost Generation”—and, incidentally, changing Pamplona forever.
For centuries, the nine-day event had been just one of dozens of annual Spanish festivals, many of which also involve encierros, or bull runs. But its profile skyrocketed as The Sun Also Rises became a smash best seller and was later made into a 1957 hit film starring Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn and Ava Gardner. Largely thanks to the novel’s success—and Hemingway’s follow-up meditations Death in the Afternoon from 1932 and the posthumous The Dangerous Summer—San Fermín became established as the ultimate Spanish celebration. Today it is one of Europe’s most popular gatherings, luring more than a million visitors every year, with a round-the-clock party atmosphere that puts Mardi Gras in New Orleans to shame. It has become so popular that as many as 3,500 runners clog the bull-running course, making trampling the biggest danger.
And yet the American connection to Pamplona remains unshakable. Many American runners and spectators have attended for decades, along with niche groups of aficionados such as the New York City Club Taurino (Bullfighting Club), who relish the traditions and pageantry of San Fermín but don’t train as matadors themselves. “People who go to Pamplona inspired by Hemingway are surprised at first,” says Jennifer May Reiland, a young Brooklyn-based artist and club member. “It can seem like spring break in Florida. But the town’s traditional life still goes on behind the scenes. It’s still wildly romantic.”
Participants in the daily running of the bulls, or encierro, scramble to stay clear of the animals as they reach the Plaza de Toros, site of the evening’s bullfights.
Participants in the daily running of the bulls, or encierro, scramble to stay clear of the animals as they reach the Plaza de Toros, site of the evening’s bullfights.A 1939 photograph of the novelist, right, that hangs at Café Iruña. Charlotte Yonga.
Participants in the daily running of the bulls, or encierro, scramble to stay clear of the animals as they reach the Plaza de Toros, site of the evening’s bullfights. Francisco Bravo
A 1939 photograph of the novelist, right, that hangs at Café Iruña.
A 1939 photograph of the novelist, right, that hangs at Café Iruña. Charlotte YongaRead more: Go Behind the Scenes of the Running of the Bulls – Smithsonian Magazine – 2025Source Links: Go Behind the Scenes of the Running of the Bulls
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https://www.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/nasa-unveils-design-for-message-heading-to-jupiters-moon-europa/
NASA will launch a spacecraft to Jupiter's moon Europa called Europa Clipper. Europe is one of the largest moons of Jupiter https://www.britannica.com/topic/moons-of-Jupiter-2236909 #Britannica. Europa Clipper’s main goal being to determine if there are places on Jupiter's moon Europa that could support life. The spacecraft has a vault, where scientific stuff/instruments are stored as vault protects them from radiation. The entrance to the vault is sealed by a metallic plate. This plate has some fascinating messages engraved and placed on it: 1) a microchip with 2.6 million names 2) poem "In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa" by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón's https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-projects/a-poem-for-europa #LibraryOfCongress 3) audio waveforms of the word "water" spoken in 103 languages and American Sign Language 4) Drake Equation, which estimates the possibility of finding advanced civilizations beyond Earth https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1350/are-we-alone-in-the-universe-revisiting-the-drake-equation 5)artwork symbolizing radio frequencies used for interstellar communication and a portrait of Ron Greeley, a founder of planetary science https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ronald-greeley-a-gentleman-and-a-scholar-3779948 #SmithsonianMagazine.
NASA Unveils Design for Message Heading to Jupiter’s Moon Europa #EuropaClipper
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A forgotten work by crime writer Raymond Chandler, famous for novels such as The Big Sleep, has been published for the first time.
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Researchers have spelled out the entire Neanderthal genome for multiple individuals, offering new insights into their biology, as well as our own—there is no longer any doubt that human beings and Neanderthals interbred.
Paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer: “Neanderthals are partly our ancestors, even if we didn’t evolve from them.”
⬇️ Our recent report, republished in Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/heres-what-we-now-know-about-neanderthals-180983344/
How and why do violent tornadoes form? Scientists hope new technology and computing power will help them understand destructive twisters. Our recent report, republished in #SmithsonianMagazine: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-and-why-do-violent-tornadoes-form-180983140/
🏚️✨House under the Stars - @smithsonian’s photo of the day for September 26th, 2023.
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Star trails caused by the earth's rotation in this long exposure image of an abandoned house in the desert of Namibia. The Great Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy about 150,000 light years from earth, is visible as the white patch on the right. The green sky hues originate from strong air glow present during this night.
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uses 90% less energy than traditional farming, a bold claim considering that vertical farms are competing against the sun. Here's a post about how stupendously wrong they are:
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I am going to email them about it (not that anyone uses email anymore). If you have a twitter, consider @'ing them there. It'd be nice if they removed that obvious absurdity from print.
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In the late 19th century, William Dorsey Swann’s private balls attracted unwelcome attention from authorities and the press #smithsonianmagazine #smithsonian #lgbtq
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What Nativity Scenes Tell Us About the Evolution of Christianity.
Fascinating Smithsonian Magazine piece with prominent appearances by Yale/YDS/Berkeley faculty members Felicity Harley-McGowan and Andrew McGowan @praxeas
Read the article: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-nativity-scenes-tell-us-about-the-evolution-of-christianity-180981332/
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#Whitesupremacy fueled white women's political advancement.
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