You’re on the couch, with the credits of the latest TV series you were watching. The drama begins slowly, with an innocent question: “what could I watch now?”. We know what happens next: hours and hours of endlessly scrolling through a streaming catalog. Science defines it as “paradox of choice“: intuitively we think that having many alternatives makes us happier, ...
Credit: Al Faw Grand Port THE’At Faw Grand Port it is, to date, one of the most ambitious and compelling infrastructure projects on the entire global scene. Located in the Al-Faw peninsula, in the Iraqi province of Basra and near the source of the river Shatt al-Arabonce completed it will become the largest port in the Arab worldeven bigger than ...
Image edited with AI. During the Cold War the United States built a luxury hotel underneath large anti-atomic bunker capable of welcome everyone and 535 members of the Congress at the time. The structure chosen was the Greenbrier Hotel and it is estimated that the project, completed in 1962it cost approx 14 million dollars – equivalent to around 150 million ...
The “thumbs up” is a gesture that takes on different meanings depending on the country. Imagine that raise your thumb to say “ok” during a trip abroad and discover, to your surprise, that you have just offended your interlocutor. It may seem paradoxical, but many gestures that we consider intuitive or universal are not at all. According to studies on ...
Generated with AI Today we look at the riders of the Tour de France or the Giro d’Italia as elite athletes, followed by flagships full of spare bikes, nutritionists, doctors and earphones always on. But if we went back a little more than a century, we would find a radically different world: dirt roads, 20 kilo bicycles without gearsno technical ...
The areas most at risk of erosion are the Po delta, the Serchio, the Arno and the Ombrone in Tuscany and the Sinni delta in Basilicata. The climate change has had a dramatic impact on Italian coastsin particular at the mouths of the rivers, where currently they also retreat by 10 meters per year. About the 66% of the 40 ...
The largest canyon in Europe is the one formed by the Tara River, in Montenegro The largest canyon in Europe is located in Montenegro, inside the Durmitor National Park: let’s talk about gorges of the Tara river, in the heart of the Balkans, which with a maximum depth of 1,300 meters they are classified as the second largest canyon in ...
Come back “Before or After?”the branded quiz format Geopop conducted by Maria Bosco! After the debut with Dada and Marcolino, the game comes to life with the second episode. You know the mechanism well: the players find themselves faced with a board and a reference “zero event”. The goal? Place four other events in exact chronological order (two that happened ...
Wet hair they are not recognized among the direct causes of neck pain. However, many people report experiencing neck pain after going to sleep with damp hair. The cooling of the skin, due toevaporation of watercan generate a sensation of cold localized in the neck and nape area. Some studies, notably a 2022 study published in Ergonomics, suggest that cold ...
In English they are called mayflies, “May flies“: these are the ephemeralor ephemeroptera, an order of insects that swarm near freshwater streams, usually during the spring period. With a vaguely similar appearance to dragonflies, they are distinguished from the latter by their thicker and shorter abdomen, with two filaments similar to antennas in the tail, and by their much less ...