There are many examples of superstitious rituals implemented before and during a sporting performance by athletes or members of staff. Let’s think about the coach of the Italian national team Giovanni Trapattoni which, at the 2002 World Cup, he was caught throwing holy water on the pitch or at Michael Jordan that he wore i old shorts of his college ...
There is an invisible thread that unites the mountains of the Himalayas, the deserts of Arabia and the plains of China: it is the thread of spirituality. THE’Asiawith its thousand-year-old civilizations, is not just a continent, but the cradle in which some of them took shape great religions of the world. Here were born myths and stories, symbols and practices ...
Image generated with AI. Try to imagine the scene for a moment: you are in front of the computer, in a forum of enthusiasts, you are experimenting with a new digital currency that does not yet have any market price and you decide to propose a very simple exchange: two pizzas in exchange for 10,000 Bitcointhe cryptocurrency protagonist of this ...
On the left, US President Donald Trump; on the right the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro. The tensions between United States of America And Venezuela have increased following recent statements by Donald Trump about the fact that his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Maduro his “days are numbered”. Relations between the two countries have not always been tense: during the Cold War, ...
Image generated with AI. Under the sand dunes of Californian coasta tiny architect hidden for millennia has just been discovered. The scientists ofUniversity of Californialed by Emma Jochim and Jason Bond, have discovered that what for over a century was considered a unique species of trapdoor spider – Aptostichus simus – actually hid a second species: Aptostichus ramirezae sp. Nov. ...
An image of the exterior of the Grand Egyptian Museum. Credit: Egypt Museum, via It was inaugurated in Cairo on Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), the largest archaeological museum in the world and the largest institution dedicated to a single civilization, Ancient Egypt. After 30 years of waiting, the museum will be entirely open to the public from Tuesday: spread over ...
Today, at 00:59 (local time, in Italy 9.29pm), a violent earthquake of magnitude 6.3 it hit Afghanistana short distance from the town of Kholm. THE’epicenter was detected at 35 km from the city of Khulm10 km deep. The tremor was distinctly felt throughout the area, including the capital Kabul, but also in neighboring countries such as Tajikistanof theUzbekistan and of ...
There High Speed Railway Line “Lisbon-Porto” (Portugal) represents a crucial infrastructure project for the internal mobility of Portugal. With his 290 km in total lengththe ultimate aim is to drastically reduce train travel times within the country (going from the current 2 hours and 45 minutes to 1 hour and 15 minutes), thanks to increasingly widespread integration with other European ...
Credit: Toho Company Ltd., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The November 3the day the movie “Gojira” was released in 1954, fans celebrate the Godzilla Day. It’s not just a pop occasion: it’s an opportunity to ask a question that seems like a joke but instead opens very serious doors on the biology of giants, on the physics of fluids and ...
Particle accelerator. The particle accelerators they are among the most fascinating and complex machines ever built by man. They are used to study the subject in its most fundamental components, using electric and magnetic fields, accelerate particles causing them to collide. But they are not just tools for research: they have concrete applications also in medicine, industry and art. The ...