The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emails

Hora inglesa, “English time” in Portuguese, is a common jab at Western punctuality in Brazil. Because, in the world’s fifth-largest country by land mass, being on time to a party is uncool and uncouth. “The unspoken rule is that the host waits until the time the party is supposed to start, and only then begins to think about having a shower,” a translator explained in a BBC travel piece. ARPANET, one of the earliest computer networks, arrived in Brazil hora inglesa, in 1975. Less than two years.