Sofonisba Anguissola, Self-portrait with easel, 1556, Museum Castle in Łańcut; via Wikimedia Commons Sofonisba Anguissola, she was a Renaissance “lady painter”, one of the few artists of the time to have achieved international fame and recognition. His fame has come down to us thanks to the quotes of the great art historian Giorgio Vasari in his “Lives”, but also in ...
It is not at all obvious that the New Year’sthat is, the first day of the year, fall on January 1st: after all, it’s a totally arbitrary choice. And in fact it has not always been like this, and in many parts of the world it is not like this even today. Who decided this, and how? The story begins ...
When talking about military engineering, especially in reference to that of the past, it is impossible not to mention the fortification works designed by Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and his nephew Antonio da Sangallo the Younger. With their works, the two architects contributed decisively to marking the transition from defensive military engineering of the medieval tradition to modern fortification, ...
“Ever dream this man?“, did you dream of this man? This phrase at the turn of the 2010s began to become a sort of catchphrase online, thanks also to the association with the strange identikit of a balding man with thick eyebrows. Looking at him, numerous users claimed to have actually dreamed of him at least once in their life… ...
There is no celebration of New Year’s without a nice “bang” made by opening a bottle of sparkling wine. Behind that characteristic “pop”, however, lies all the complexity of fluid dynamics, the physics of fluids: did you know, for example, that the “bang” of uncorked sparkling wine is a miniature version of the sonic boom produced by planes breaking the ...
Have you ever wondered why, when let’s fry something, our clothes become so impregnated with this smell, with the it smells like fried food that can stay on sweatshirts or t-shirts for several hours? It all has to do with the chemical processes that occur during the cookingwhen i fats contained in the oil undergo an oxidation process in which ...
Generated with AI. Celebrating with “caviar and champagne” is synonymous with a rich, refined and expensive party, but the origin of this product and the reason for such a high cost of the famous black beads in a jar are not always known. These are exactly the eggs of a fish: lo sturgeona fish that reaches 8 meters, 1500 kg ...
In the last few days a is circulating video which quickly surpassed one million views on YouTube and is also being republished on other platforms. In the video a YouTuber convinces ChatGPT to shoot him via a humanoid robot, thus violating AI ethical rules. To do this, bypass the security barriers using a jailbreaking technique, a procedure to remove ethical ...
The 2025 It’s been a year full of changes and of great historical events: since the election of new Pope Leo XIV until the discovery of 3I/ATLAS – the third interstellar object ever observed in history –, from theft to Louvre per mega blackout in Spain. Let’s look back together at the 10 most discussed news stories of these 12 ...
The classic “bangs” we hear on New Year’s Eve are the result of a reaction of explosion extremely rapid: a real “boom” coming from those candles, whether large or small, called firecrackers. Inside them there is a mixture of chemicals, including gunpowder, which, once ignited, burns quickly and violently producing large quantities of hot gases. Since the gases that evolve ...