It may seem absurd, but a few seconds are enough to convince you that a rubber hand… is really part of your body. The experiment is based on a perceptual illusion and reveals how our brain can “rewrite” the perception of the body in real time. What we feel as “ours” is the result of a continuous work of integration ...
Human communication is not limited to words: postures, gestures and micro-movements constitute an essential component of social interaction. Among these, the act of keep your hands in your pockets apparently represents nonverbal behavior neutral which, however, it can assume profoundly different meanings depending on the cultural context. In some societies this gesture is perceived as a signal of informality or ...
Generated with AI Have you ever looked at a bird in flight and felt a hint of envy? Paragliding is probably the closest way we have to imitating that freedom: no enginesno closed cabins, just a fabric wing and a backpack on the shoulders. But how does a “piece of fabric” support us at altitude without falling like a stone? ...
Image generated with AI. The so-called “phantom time hypothesis” is a controversial theory that aims to correct a part of the historical chronology, pointing out how some centuries have never existed of the High Middle Ages. It is considered without historiographical basis and has been circulating on the web for years but, in reality, dates back to the end of ...
Image generated with AI. Almost all of us remember that a bit it is written with an apostropheas a shortened form of a little: they teach it to us in the first years of school so that we never forget it again. Yet, there are those who still get it wrong: it is in fact among the ten most common ...
If you’re planning a flight this summer, there’s some news that deserves your attention. Last April 9th, ACI Europe – the association that represents beyond 600 European airports – wrote a formal letter to two commissioners of the European Union raising a specific alarm: if the passage through the Strait of Hormuz does not recover stably within three weeks, one ...
The cat that approaches the bowl, sniffs, eats a few bites and leaves. Does this behavior come from evolutionary instinct or are they whims? According to a study published in Physiology & Behavior by researchers fromIwate University in Japan, the answer is much simpler, the cat gets bored of theodor of food, not of food itself. Cats are solitary hunters ...
An image of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, which will connect the USA and Canada. In North America, what can be defined as a true giant in the infrastructure sector is currently being completed: this is the Gordie Howe International Bridge, a single span cable-stayed bridge 2.5 km long in totalwith the main span which, alone, will measure well 853m. ...
Generated with AI Padel balls and tennis balls are practically identical at first glance: same bright yellow colour, same shape, same felt covering. Yet you only need to play a few exchanges to realize that they don’t behave the same way. Because that gives padel seems to “turn off” after the bounce, while the one from tennis remains fast and ...
Little Albert’s experiment. Credit: Vibha C Kashyap, CC BY–SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons In 1920 the greatest exponent of behaviorism John Watson he was so convinced that behaviors and emotions could be shaped and shaped by the external environment that he decided to carry out an experiment at Johns Hopkins University on a child, known as the little Albertto demonstrate ...