Sonic Youth played at Barcelona's Primavera Sound festival last Saturday the 2nd of June. As part of the ATP's Don't look back series, Sonic Youth performed Daydream Nation, their 1988 album. Possibly their best album. With no doubts one of the most important music album of the last 20 years.

Carolus Linnaeus was born 300 years ago (the 23rd of May) in Råshult, Sweden, from a protestant vicar named Nils Linnaeus. Linnaeus scientific work could be considered as the starting point of the Binomial Nomenclature a formal naming standard used in natural sciences.

1707

In 1707 the world was experiencing not only Linnaeus birth:

• England and Scotland are united into the United Kingdom of Great Britain
• The Scottish Parliament is abolished and Scotland receives representation in the British.
• The last eruption of the sacred Mount Fujiyama (Fuji) in Japan.