You’re watching The mechanisms of scams Don’t miss out on more content from Geopop How many times do we come across messages or advertisements that promise to make our savings yield exorbitant returns? Promises of easy, fast and risk-free earnings. Often it’s about scams based on a very precise scheme that dates back over 100 years: lo Ponzi schemea scam ...
THE Riace bronzesthe famous pair of Greek bronze statues from the 5th century representing two hoplite warriors found in 1972 and currently exhibited in Reggio Calabria in an excellent state of conservation, could originate from Eastern Sicilyprobably from Brucoliaccording to a recent study published in the journal Italian Journal of Geosciences which proposes a hypothesis according to which they remained ...
WhatsApp is introducing new tools that will allow users to manage the space occupied by chats more easily among other things to free up memory. With the latest beta version of WhatsApp for Android, marked with the number of version 2.25.34.5conversation cleaning becomes much more precise than what is currently feasible in the stable version of the app. Thanks to ...
The last few days have seen a sudden worsening of the relations between China and Japanstarting from a speech given in parliament by the Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichiwith statements that triggered a diplomatic dispute between the two Asian countries. In his speech, Takaichi suggested that a Chinese attack on Taiwan could be push Tokyo into a military response: These ...
In Italy summer time could become permanent: today, Monday 17 November, the proposal for a fact-finding investigation will be presented to the Chamber of Deputies, accompanied by 352 thousand signatures, promoted by Italian Society of Environmental Medicine (SIMA), by Consumerismo Non profit and by the deputy Andrea Barabotti (Lega). The final objective is to start the parliamentary process to definitively ...
In the Arctic marine sediments was found cosmic dustremnants of stellar explosions from Space, which it reveals how extensive the sea ice was in this area in the past. Researchers at the University of Washington made the discovery, who published it in a study in the journal Science. Cosmic dust, which regularly falls on Earth, provides this important information because ...
Sinner after the ATP Finals victory in Turin. Credit: @ATPtour, via He let himself fall to the ground, closing his eyes for a moment as if to enjoy the moment and keep it all to himself as he had done at the 2024 Australian Open, the first major trophy won in his career. In the highly anticipated epilogue of the ...
The eruption of the Sakurajima volcano. Credit: Rainmaker1973, via The Sakurajima volcanoin Japanhas once again made itself felt by generating three different eruptions on the Japanese island of Kyushu – in the south-west of the country – raising a column of smoke and ash up to 4.4 km high and causing the cancellation of over 30 flights from the airport ...
November 17th marks the anniversary of the inauguration of the Suez Canalone of the most important hydraulic engineering works ever carried out for its strategic nature and its role in civil and communicative development between continents. Inaugurated on November 17, 1869, it is a navigable canal located in Egypt near the Sinai Peninsula, which connects the Red Sea to the ...
In Italy interest in politics is declining: today less than half of the population gets information at least once a week. According to the latest ISTAT report, almost a third of the population never talks about politics, not even at the bar or in the family: we are talking about over 18 million people, more women than men, who ignore ...