Generated with AI When we think of air travel we often imagine long and interminable intercontinental routes, and it can hardly occur to us that there are scheduled flights so short that they last just a handful of minutes. We are talking about routes that connect places that are difficult to reach in other ways, almost always between two nearby ...
Waking up in the morning, rested and ready to face a new day, often means dealing with those annoying “scabs” on the corners of the eyes. “Boogers”, cips, mucus or ocular secretions: everyone calls them in their own way, but not everyone knows that, however unsightly and annoying, they are essential for the visual health. While we sleep, in fact, ...
The One World Trade Center (also called Freedom Tower) is one of the most symbolic buildings in New York: inaugurated in 2014, with its 541 meters (417 meters without the spire), it holds the record as the tallest building in New York and the sixth tallest building in the world. Project features The One World Trade Center it is, not ...
There are moments in life when we are no longer what we were, but we are not yet what we will become. It is in these suspended, uncertain and sometimes disorienting spaces that the liminality: one passage condition which, from an anthropological concept, has now become a key to understanding the sense of confusion widespread in contemporary societiesespecially among the ...
The differences between duomo, cathedral and basilica. Image generated with AI. Although they are often used synonymously, cathedral, duomo and basilica are not the same thing at all: but could you explain what the differences are between these three buildings? According to Treccani, basilica, duomo and cathedral are three examples of churches (from Greek ecclesia“assembly”), or thebuilding in which the ...
You get up from the sofa, take a few steps towards the kitchen, go through the door and… total emptiness: “why did I come here?“. It happens to everyone, it is inevitable, and science has discovered that it is precisely the fault brings that you went through. Our brain uses precise mechanisms to organize memories, and forgetting what we were ...
The Strait of Hormuz it is not only crucial for fossil fuel trading: about a third of world trade of fertilizers by sea passes through this route: we are talking about about a million tons per month of raw materials essential for modern agriculture: ammonia, urea, phosphates and sulphur. These products are transported almost exclusively by sea: in fact, there ...
Paleoartistic representation of Doolysaurus huhmini. Credit: Jun Seong Yi. A recent study published in the journal Fossil Records described a new species of dinosaur, Doolysaurus huhminibelonging to the thescelosaurid family, just discovered in South Korea and dating back to Lower Cretaceous. The fossil was found in Ilseongsan formation (in the southwestern part of the country) and is dated to a ...
Are you ready to test your memory and your perception of time? Officially arrives”Before or After?”the very first branded quiz format Geopopconducted by Maria Bosco. After the success of the “zero episode” which aired during the second episode of Casa Geopop – which saw the challenge between Stefano Gandelli And Riccardo De Marco – the game finally comes to life. ...
The man with the most teeth in the world has 42, 10 more than the average. Among the many Guinness World Records linked to the human body – from the woman with the longest hair to the tallest man in history – there is also one that concerns the smile: Prathab Muniandy it’s thereman with the most teeth in the ...