Among the most compelling and interesting architectural and engineering challenges of the last century, the Chicago Spire Of Santiago Calatrava it was supposed to be the tallest residential building in the world, with ben 150 floors… it’s a shame that things didn’t go well due to the 2008 financial crisis. The skyscraper of 610 meters it should have been built ...
Image created with AI To date we don’t know what the epilogue will be case of the Garlasco crimewhich saw the murder of in 2007 Chiara Poggi (for which the ex-boyfriend was definitively convicted Alberto Stasi) and returned to the headlines due to the appearance of new material relating to Andrea Sempio (associated with the famous footprint 33). In light ...
There European Commission he published new guidelines for the transport sector, hit by the crisis in the Middle East: the closure of Strait of Hormuz in fact, it is also having direct repercussions on the airline sector and, as the summer season approaches, consumers’ concerns about possible cancellations of flights. However, after some airlines asked their passengers to supplement the ...
Overview of Loch Bhorgastail, with the crannog. Credit: Blankshein et al. In the Loch Bhorgastailon the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, in Scotlandthere is a small island that at first glance seems like a natural accumulation of stones. It is instead a so-called “crannog“, aartificial island built by man beyond 5,000 years agoIn the Neolithic. The archaeologists ofUniversity ...
About 219,890 tons of gold were extracted throughout the entire history of humanitystarting from beyond 6000 years ago until today. Of these, beyond the80% it has been undermined over the last century. If you stacked every single coin, jewel, ingot or any other form of gold, you would get a cube with a side of approximately 22 meters. Gold has ...
There is a new geometric figure, the Noperthedron, a convex polyhedron that defies the laws of geometry because it cannot pass inside itself. In mathematics, it is said that the Nopethedron has disproved the Rupert’s propertywhich we will see shortly. But what does it mean that it can’t pass through? Let’s try to understand it with an example. Let’s imagine ...
There human communication it is a complex interweaving between words and the gestures of body. Much of what we transmit, in fact, does not pass through the voice, but through postures, head movementsfrom the hands and of body entire. However, what it may seem spontaneous and universal in a culture it can be interpreted completely different in another. In general, ...
Generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. The burp or belchingto use the medical term, is often considered an embarrassing gesture by social convention, but it is actually a shared bodily mechanism. As the Humanitas clinical institute explains, burping consists of the noisy emission of gas from the stomach through the mouth. This is a completely physiological mechanism that our ...
Have you ever heard of theDoomsday Plane? Imagine a true “Flying Pentagon,” designed to withstand a nuclear attack and allow the US government to continue operating even in the worst possible scenario. This is theE-4B Nightwatchknown by most as Doomsday Planeand in this article we will see what its characteristics are, what’s inside it (or at least, what we know ...
A wreck a few meters from the shore. Credit: Manas In the Bay of Gibraltar (also called Algeciras Bay) have been identified 151 new archaeological sites divers, with 34 wrecks documented in detail and covering a chronological period from the 5th century BC to the 20th century AD The discovery – result of Herakles Project conducted by researchers from the ...