Ecology

Why don't we write in italics anymore? As a sign of prestige and culture, it is disappearing from schools

Why don’t we write in italics anymore? As a sign of prestige and culture, it is disappearing from schools

Credits: Petar Milošević, via Wikimedia Commons. Cursive writing is one of those skills that risk disappearing in the coming decades due to the technological changes that have occurred over the last seventy years and the increasingly frequent replacement of the pen with keyboards and touch screens. But how is it possible that a tool considered fundamental for schooling and education ...

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The 7 most beautiful museums in the world, the Prix Versailles 2026 ranking: from Abu Dhabi to Tokyo

Zayed National Museum in Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi The Prix ​​Versailles has drawn up a ranking of most beautiful museums of the world in 2026. There are seven awarded structures, spread throughout the world: from the United Arab Emirates to the United States, passing through Uzbekistan, China and Japan. The awards, awarded every year at the UNESCO headquarters in ...

Acute or grave accent? Why do we write “why” and “coffee” and when to use them

Acute or grave accent? Why do we write “why” and “coffee” and when to use them

AI generated image. Write Why or coffee with the right accent is not a detail for purists: it is one of the first things that distinguishes careful writing from approximate writing. In Italian there are two graphic accents, acute (´) for the closed sound e serious (`) when it indicates an open sound, and they are not interchangeable: they indicate ...

Wooden and plastic cutting boards: hygiene studies and USDA cleaning guidelines

Wooden and plastic cutting boards: hygiene studies and USDA cleaning guidelines

The cutting board it is perhaps among the most used utensils in the kitchen. For centuries it has always been in woodthen at the beginning of the 70s the first chopping boards were born plastic thanks to the availability of new synthetic polymers. From there a real debate began between modernity and tradition, with plastic often considered more reliable because ...

Who will win the race to nuclear fusion: USA and China are ahead, but the race will not have a single winner

Who will win the race to nuclear fusion: USA and China are ahead, but the race will not have a single winner

An image of the abstract Tokamak reactor. There nuclear fusion it is often described as the “Holy Grail” of energy: clean, safe, potentially unlimited and without long-lived waste. Nonetheless, it is particularly difficult to achieve: it would be necessary to replicate on Earth extreme conditions of temperature and pressure, similar to those of the solar nucleus, to overcome the repulsion ...

How do countries like the UK and Canada govern without a written Constitution

How do countries like the UK and Canada govern without a written Constitution

The Constitution is the fundamental law of a country. Generally it defines the fundamental principles, establishes what the powers of the institutionslists the rights and duties of citizens. All states have, at least de facto, a constitution, in the sense that they are based on specific principles and a specific distribution of powers and there are no states completely devoid ...