This year the crossword has turned off 100 candles in Italy: what better way to celebrate than with the CruciPop? We have created the first Geopop scheme to test your scientific culture. But before leaving you with the definitions, let’s take a step back: did you know that it all started on December 21, 1913 in the United States? From ...
THE goalkeeper gloves over time they have become an extension of the hand: today they combine protection, grip and sensitivity in a single tool. The latex deforms upon contact with the ball, increasing the grip surface and absorbing part of the impact, while the stitching defines different fit cuts. On the back, the system slats Fingersave they reduce hyperextensions and ...
If you are a trekking enthusiast or if you have been dragged “forcibly” by your friends into the mountains, you will surely have asked yourself at least once: but how are the average times of the paths calculated? It often seems like they don’t get it right: for some, reading that number is a psychological obstacle even before leaving, for ...
Italian is one very rich languagecapable of mixing expertly classical roots, regionalisms and foreign borrowings. Yet, in everyday life, many precious words end up forgotten, crushed by the speed of digital, by emojis or abbreviations. Terms like tongue-tied, lively or eristic they are not just curiosities: they contain nuances and images that make our speech more vivid, multifaceted and fun. ...
It was the summer of 1984on July 24, when three heads with elongated shapes emerged from a channel of Livornowith long noses and small eyes that immediately caught the attention of art experts: everyone was ready to attribute them to Amedeo Modiglianiwho passed away sixty years earlier. The discovery seemed to confirm a local legend that the artist threw four ...
THE candy canes or bwhite and red sticks to the taste of peppermint they are one of the most famous symbols of Christmas. According to the National Confectioners Association in America they are produced between Thanksgiving and Christmas over 1.7 billionwith peak sales in the second week of December. According to tradition, they were created by a music master in ...
Image created with AI. Which AI is better: GPT 5.2 or Gemini 3? If you have also asked yourself the problem, you are evidently following closely the most recent developments in artificial intelligence from OpenAI and Google. If we had to give you a straight answer, we would tell you that at the moment GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 meet user ...
Many times we find ourselves wondering “But was it that cold last year?” or “But was it this hot in other years?”. These are questions that can be answered by searching through the meteorological archives, and that’s what we did: we bring you the temperatures of December 21st scheduled for Milan, Rome, Naples And Palermocompared with those of the same ...
Several scientists who have studied the effects of intense consumption of short videos on TikTokInstagram Reels, YouTube Shorts found an impact in brain areas related to concentrationto theself-controlat the memory and to theemotional balancewhich result from rapid and continuous stimulation that pushes the brain to seek immediate rewards over reflection. The short videos we watch during the scrolling influence the ...
Abebe Bikila wins the marathon at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games without shoes. Credit: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The September 10th of 1960during the Rome Olympics, Abebe Bikila he won a medal that will forever remain in the history of sport. Born in 1932 in Ethiopia, he began his career almost by chance. At the age of ...