Ecology

How did we listen to western music in the Soviet Union during the Cold War?

How did we listen to western music in the Soviet Union during the Cold War?

Credits: Dmitry Rozhkov, CC By –a 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons In the Soviet Union of the Cold War Western music was prohibitedbut the desire to listen to it found an alternative and ingenious way. On old radiographies, cut and engraved like vinyl, i were born “Bone discs”: clandestine copies of jazz and rock that brought the prohibited sound in Soviet ...

Sismicity and bradisism at the Flegrei Campi is stable: the data of the latest Ingv bulletin

Sismicity and bradisism at the Flegrei Campi is stable: the data of the latest Ingv bulletin

The relative seismic tranquility continues to Campi Flegreiwhere in the last week they have been recorded 35 earthquake shocks With maximum magnitude 2.1, in line with the previous week: to affirm it is the last Bulletin of the Vesuvian Observatory of the EngV relating to the period from 15 to 21 September. There are no significant variations even as regards ...

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False fines on cars or by mail with QR code for payment: how to recognize the scam

Reports for the False verbal scam which is spreading in different Italian cities: the phenomenon has been reported to Pisaa Catania and, more recently, a Florencewhere several tens of motorists have found on the windshield – or in the mailbox – false contravention notices that seem official in every detail (verbal number, article of the highway code, car license plate, ...

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A new study discovered the origin of the blue color of the famous Pollock painting

Jackson Pollock, Number 1A, 1948. © 2025 Pollock – Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (Ars), New York The huge painting “Number 1a” by Jackson Pollockfrom 1948, since then the secret of the blue pigment has hidden: in fact, over the years several studies have identified the red and yellow pigments that are part of its main palette, while The ...

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What are the countries that recognized the state of Palestine: the updated map

In green the countries that recognize Palestine, in gray those who do not recognize it, in orange who will recognize it. There France has formally recognized it Palestine state During the United Nations Assembly held every year in New York, in the wake of what they had already done, last Sunday, Portugal, United Kingdom, Canada And Australia. In the meantime, ...

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The legend of the “manhole” shot in space at 200,000 km/h during a nuclear test

For years the legend of a manhole has circulated (or better to say a chiusin) shot “by mistake” in space at a record speed of 200,000 km/h In 1957 due to an accident that occurred during one of the nuclear tests of the so -called Operation Plumbbob. On that occasion, the pressure air inside a well would have fired the ...

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Because the “Bagher” in volleyball is said: how to perform and where the term derives from

Stacy Sykora, free of the United States women’s women’s women’s national team. Credit: Rachel Boettcher, US Air Force, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Bagherterm of origin czechoslovak (“Bagr” – “digger” because of the gesture), represents one of the most significant gestures of the volleyball modern. Usually, it is performed with the Tesse and united forearmswith which the ball rejects ...