An image of the flood that hit the Marche on September 15, 2022. Credit: Fire Brigade Three years later, the damage caused by the violent are still visible flood that the September 15, 2022 hit The territory of the Marche and part of Umbria, involving 2,500 hectares of land, over 2,500 private houses and causing the death of 13 people. ...
The map of democracies in the world in 2024. Credit: Ourworldinata, data processed by Economist Intelligence Unit In recent years the number of democratic governments in the world has decreasedmarking a worrying trend globally. According to the Global Democracy Index 2024on 167 countries analyzed Only 25 can be considered “full” democracieswhile another 46, including Italy, fall into the category of ...
Few things arouse more anxiety about having suspicion that their data ended up in the wrong hands on the Dark webthat hidden portion of the internet that allows users to remain anonymous and which, precisely for this feature, is often used for illegal activities such as the sale of stolen data. Just there can appear email addresses, passwords or telephone ...
Superstition wants the purple colorin the theater, worn or present in objects and elements of the stage, I bring bad luck to the show and the actors. It is a belief that has its roots in the Middle Ages, when the Lent – liturgical period marked by this color – coincided with the suspension of shows and the lack of ...
Guess of the 10 coins: there are 5 coins shot on the side of the head (t, green) and 5 turned on the side of the cross (C, red) The situation is this: on the table there are 10 coins, 5 shot on the side of the head And 5 shot on the side of the cross. Let’s imagine, however, ...
Giraffa in Tadrart Acacus, Libya. Credit: by Roberto D’Angelo (Roberdan) – This Image Was Originally Posted to Flickr As Dscn3912, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons Today it is the largest and most inhospitable desert on the planet, but thousands of years ago the Sahara it was one luxuriant savannahfurrowed by rivers and populated by elephants, hippos and crocodiles. During the ...
The theft of digital identity and online blackmail are certainly not new phenomena, but in recent months the researchers of Proofpoint have reported a significant growth of campaigns that exploit a Open Source malwareknown as SteroRium. This software, born with the justification of having been designed “only for educational purposes”, has become an insidious weapon in the hands of cybercriminals. ...
Credits: Nicola Quirico, CC By –a 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons THE civic numbersalphanumeric codes assigned by the municipalities that uniquely identified access to a building, were introduced for the first time by European governments between ‘600 and ‘700with a very practical purpose: tax the citizens and find easily soldiers to be enrolled. First, in fact, the houses were recognizable only ...
The beginning of the school year often brings with it a Increase in lice infestations (pediculosis), because children return to attend closed places with very close contacts: in this way the head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) find favorable conditions for proliferate and spreadmoving from one child’s head to that of another. It is appropriate to say that it is a ...
Floating School; Via Wikimedia Commons When we think of the school, a classroom with desks, blackboard and bell comes to mind. But not everywhere in the world, education takes place like this: there are schools that challenge extreme environmental conditions, isolated communities or educational models out of the ordinary, showing how to learn can take surprising and creative forms. In ...