Italian is one very rich languagecapable of mixing expertly classical roots, regionalisms and foreign borrowings. Yet, in everyday life, many precious words end up forgotten, crushed by the speed of digital, by emojis or abbreviations. Terms like tongue-tied, lively or eristic they are not just curiosities: they contain nuances and images that make our speech more vivid, multifaceted and fun. ...
It was the summer of 1984on July 24, when three heads with elongated shapes emerged from a channel of Livornowith long noses and small eyes that immediately caught the attention of art experts: everyone was ready to attribute them to Amedeo Modiglianiwho passed away sixty years earlier. The discovery seemed to confirm a local legend that the artist threw four ...
THE candy canes or bwhite and red sticks to the taste of peppermint they are one of the most famous symbols of Christmas. According to the National Confectioners Association in America they are produced between Thanksgiving and Christmas over 1.7 billionwith peak sales in the second week of December. According to tradition, they were created by a music master in ...
Image created with AI. Which AI is better: GPT 5.2 or Gemini 3? If you have also asked yourself the problem, you are evidently following closely the most recent developments in artificial intelligence from OpenAI and Google. If we had to give you a straight answer, we would tell you that at the moment GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 meet user ...
Many times we find ourselves wondering “But was it that cold last year?” or “But was it this hot in other years?”. These are questions that can be answered by searching through the meteorological archives, and that’s what we did: we bring you the temperatures of December 21st scheduled for Milan, Rome, Naples And Palermocompared with those of the same ...
Several scientists who have studied the effects of intense consumption of short videos on TikTokInstagram Reels, YouTube Shorts found an impact in brain areas related to concentrationto theself-controlat the memory and to theemotional balancewhich result from rapid and continuous stimulation that pushes the brain to seek immediate rewards over reflection. The short videos we watch during the scrolling influence the ...
Abebe Bikila wins the marathon at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games without shoes. Credit: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The September 10th of 1960during the Rome Olympics, Abebe Bikila he won a medal that will forever remain in the history of sport. Born in 1932 in Ethiopia, he began his career almost by chance. At the age of ...
The first modern crossword was published on December 21st 112 years agoin 1913, on Funthe Sunday supplement of New York World. The invention of crossword puzzleas they were called in the United States, can be attributed to Arthur Wynne (1871-1945), the editor of the puzzle section of the American weekly. At the time they were already widespread word squaressimpler squares ...
Credit: Google. Gemini 3 Flash was officially released on December 17th last. Google’s new efficient AI-powered model brings the reasoning and understanding capabilities of frontier models to a version optimized for speed of response and computational efficiency. Gemini 3 Flash represents an important step, as it maintains the technological foundations of Gemini 3 Pro, but drastically reduces latency and costs, ...
Among the Italian popular sayings that occur most often, “Christmas with your parents, Easter with whoever you want“is most likely the phrase most linked to family and holidays, so deeply rooted that we hear it repeated every year. But where does it come from? In reality, although its origins are not well defined, they are as deep and ancient as ...