The New Century Global Center, compared to the Sydney Opera House. Image generated with AI. The New Century Global Center («Global Center of the New Century»), inaugurated on 1 July 2013 in Chengdu, in the Chinese province of Sichuan, is the largest building in the world per useful surface. With his 1.7 million square meters – 500 meters in length, ...
Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards in Calgary in 2017. Credit: Orville Barlow via Wikimedia Commons “Eddie the Eagle”, aka Michael David Edwards he is the Englishman who defied gravity, short-sightedness and common sense to realize his five-circle dream. With no money, makeshift equipment and a less-than-athletic physique, Eddie managed to qualify for the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics in ski jumpingbecoming the ...
Anyone who has kept earphones in their pocket knows this: a wire left loose in a confined space has a natural tendency to form knots. This “Murphy’s law” of the threads does not even spare the Christmas decorations: we challenge anyone who has decorated their Christmas tree with the classic Christmas lights not to have cursed to unravel the tangle ...
For all of us, the traditional Magi are three: Gaspar, Balthasar and Melchior. But there is also the legend of the fourth Wise King, Artabanus (in English Artaban), Persian sage and astronomer like the other three. If most people have never heard of it, it’s because it’s one legend of modern origin, and is therefore a story from uniquely symbolic ...
You’re watching Pop Corner Don’t miss out on more content from Geopop In this new episode of Pop Corner we had the honor of hosting Luca Zingarettia giant of Italian cinema. Born in Rome in 1961, we all know him as the face of Commissioner Montalbanobut Luca is much more: he is an actor, director, screenwriter and producer. We had ...
The color of passports it’s not an aesthetic choice nor a graphic whim: behind those covers burgundy, blue, green or black stories, identities, religions and even political alliances are hidden. There is no law that imposes a precise color: each state has followed traditions, religions and geopolitical strategies, to the point of creating four large color families that have now ...
Schematic representation of the position of Jupiter (not to scale) at 11pm on January 10th, the day of the planet’s opposition. Credits: Stellarium. The first month of the new year brings with it several astronomical events not to be missed. After the first “supermoon” of the year and the peak of the meteor shower Quadrantids on January 3rd, in January ...
Image generated with AI. A new and sophisticated wave of fraudulent campaigns exploit the familiarity of Italian citizens with the digital payment tools of the Public Administration. The alarm is raised by the Postal Policewhich identified a massive sending of misleading communications that illegitimately abuse the name and brand “PagoPA”the system designed to make payments to the PA simpler, safer ...
According to what was reported by numerous international military newspapers, the capture operation of Nicolas Maduro and his wife in Venezuela by the USA it would also have been possible thanks to the use of a particular drone, theRQ-170 Sentinel. It is a remotely piloted vehicle (UAV) also known as the “Beast of Kandahar” and usually used to provide continuous ...
The recent tragedy in Switzerland has brought attention to the importance of security measures for the protection of buildings in the event of fire. The risk of fire concerns any closed environment but, in certain contexts, it is addressed through the fire prevention: a specific area of building design. Regulations and technical provisions establish that structural systems – i.e. the ...