A climb, a staircase, a sloping road can seem like an insurmountable wall at certain moments, and an almost pleasant path at others. For years the psychology of perception has studied why this happens on a physiological level – weight to carry, age, tiredness – but a study published in 2008 on Journal of Experimental Social Psychology tried to answer ...
Sealed. With the original shiny sticker. As if someone had bought it in 1986 and had intuited, more than four decades in advance, that it was worth keeping it jealously guarded in a drawer rather than sticking it in the NES. The new world record for a vintage video game auctioned for a stellar sum was set a few days ...
Everyone knows that the main ingredient of Genoese pesto is basilbut is the one in Genoa really so “special”? Or is it just the result of popular rumors? First of all, Genoese Basil is a product DOP and in the specifications we read precisely how this plant was historically cultivated on the Tyrrhenian side of Liguria, where a set of ...
Image created with AI for example purposes. Do you write in Empoli or in Empoli? Hyenas and elephants or hyenas and elephants? Someone will remember a lesson at school in which the Italian teacher explained the correct spelling, someone else will have removed it along with many other grammatical rules and will never have noticed it again, but that “d” ...
The windfilling the sails of ancient vessels, has been the invisible engine of civilization making possible i tradesdeciding the outcome of the wars and allowing theexploration of new worlds. The technique of the first great navigators – from the Egyptians to the Romans, from the Phoenicians to the Austronesians – evolved slowly, remaining for centuries based on just two primordial ...
The resort burned down in the Dominican Republic. Credit: TaraBull, via A major fire has struck the Long live Wyndham Dominicus Beacha seaside resort in the area of Bayahibein Dominican Republic. Flames engulfed much of the structure, with videos released by local media showing thick clouds of dark smoke rising above the Caribbean coast. The local authorities, through the DAEH ...
Image created with AI. Friulian is one Romance language spoken mainly in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (in the provinces of Udine, Pordenone and Gorizia), it is used regularly by more than half of its population (to which is also added a large number of inhabitants who include it) and in some municipalities in the Veneto. Some people mistakenly define ...
An image of the Western Sydney International Airport in Australia, still under construction. Source: By BulbazaurREX – Own work, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. The Western Sydney International Airport represents one of the most impressive infrastructural works made in Australia over the last fifty years. The project, which should be finished by on the 25th October 2026aims to decongest Sydney’s Kingsford ...
Credit: UBC (Via GitHub). A gaming table, a disc whizzing at full speed across a gaming table air hockey and a robotic arm that plays like a pro. Three engineering physics students fromUBC (University of British Columbia) have succeeded in a feat that could potentially redefine how robots are trained. The three young researchers created a AI-driven air hockey robot ...
Generated with AI for illustration purposes. Early afternoon, you have just finished lunch and you would pay an amount you don’t even have to take a nap. Instead you force yourself to sit in the chair for a few minutes at most. But then the weakness starts to get the better of you, and you find yourself in that situation ...