If in the next few days you receive phone calls from numbers with an international prefix +358 from the Finlandas for those with the +45 area code from Denmark, be careful: there is a good chance that it is a scam attempt. There are circumstances in which a call from Finland is completely legitimate. Working collaborations with Finnish companies, commercial ...
The landslide occurred in Niscemi on January 25, 2026. Credit: Regional Department of Civil Protection The town of Niscemiin the province of Caltanissettawas affected by a new landslide which caused a estimated subsidence of approximately 6 metresforcing further 500 residents to evacuate as a precaution. The landslide event occurred around 1pm yesterday, Sunday 25 January, in the section connecting the ...
Traditionally, with “Days of the Blackbird” are meant the 29, 30 and 31 Januarywhich according to popular beliefs would be the coldest of the yeareven if the peak of the winter cold in Italy does not necessarily fall on those three days, especially in the South. There are various versions of the popular legend which gives rise to the name ...
The Dutch methodor dutch reachit’s a small precaution inopen the door which could however save the lives of many cyclists and motorcyclists. Let’s see what it’s about. Anyone who rides a bicycle knows that one of the most common risks is that someone who parks the car opens the door without it check the rearview mirror firstthus putting cyclists or ...
To equal the weight of a African elephant we would have to put about 130 people on a huge scale (average weight 62 kg). Yet we wouldn’t even be on the podium of the heaviest animals on the planet. To understand who the giants that populate our planet are, we must look at them mainland but above all in oceanswhere ...
Draw a map it does not exclusively mean describing the world: it means choose what to show, what to simplify and what to hide. For this reason, for centuries, maps have not only been tools for orientation, but also weapons, deception and instruments of power. Sometimes cartographers made mistakes by mistake, but very often, they lied on purpose. Imagine following ...
When traveling in countries such as the UK or USA you may come across distances, or speed limits, expressed in miles instead of in kilometers, and sometimes it can be useful to have a quick method to convert from miles to km and vice versa. In these cases, the Fibonacci number trick with which to convert from miles to km ...
There is a promise that comes back cyclically when it comes to personal change: resist for twenty-one days and then everything becomes easy. The idea is seductive because it offers a clear boundary between effort and lightness, between “I’m trying” and “it comes naturally to me now”. But it’s a false myth: when scientific research observes how habits are really ...
Alex Honnold at the end of the climb of Taipei 101. Credit: Reuters Climb 508 meters barehanded, without ropes or harnesses, equipped only with climbing shoes and a chalk bag. It seems like something out of this world but it was the feat accomplished tonight in live streaming from Alex HonnoldAmerican professional climber, on Taipei 101the eleventh tallest skyscraper in ...
The Italian aircraft carrier Cavour, which entered service in 2009. Credit: Ministry of Defence, Navy From the moment they made their debut during the First World War, the aircraft carrier have gradually established themselves as a irreplaceable element of naval strategies of all those countries that, from time to time, have had the technical capabilities and political will–strategic to deploy ...