Ecology

Amazon Web Services is down, global failures from Canva to Perplexity: what's happening

Amazon Web Services is down, global failures from Canva to Perplexity: what’s happening

Credit: Amazon During the morning today, October 20, 2025different platforms such as Canva, Amazon And Perplexity are experiencing malfunctions: as confirmed by the portal Downdetectorthe downside is also affecting the infrastructure of Amazon Web Servicesas well as the virtual assistant Alexasome social networks like Snapchat And Signal and several games like Clash Royale. The apps and platforms down today, October ...

Why Cape Verde is called that and why it is famous: history

Why Cape Verde is called that and why it is famous: history

Cape Verde – which many know for its Afro-Portuguese Creole culture, the morna music made famous by Cesária Évora and the spectacular beaches of Sal and Boa Vista – is a West African island state made up of archipelago of ten volcanic islands which extends into the Atlantic Ocean, about 500 kilometers from the coast of Senegal. Its islands, different ...

Calls or messages with the +40 prefix are a Romanian scam: how to recognize it and defend yourself

Calls or messages with the +40 prefix are a Romanian scam: how to recognize it and defend yourself

Image generated with AI. Calls or messages from numbers with area code +40The international dialing code of Romaniacould arrive on our mobile phone for very different reasons: some totally harmless, others linked to rather sophisticated scams. If you receive a contact from an unknown Romanian number (but it applies to other prefixes, such as the +30 one in Greece which ...

Why you can't leave a person according to psychology

Why you can’t leave a person according to psychology

The sunk cost fallacy, or lost costs fallacy, is a cognitive bias that occurs when people continue to invest time, energy and resources in something that is proving to be a failure, just because they have already invested so much in the past. This mechanism can also manifest itself in relationships, pushing us to maintain dysfunctional bonds in order not ...

Edible and poisonous mushrooms in Italy: what they are and how to collect them safely

Edible and poisonous mushrooms in Italy: what they are and how to collect them safely

We are in autumn and many of us venture into the woods in search of mushrooms: in reality, what we commonly call “mushrooms“I’m actually the fruit – said carpophore – of a much larger organism, formed by a network of thin filaments called hyphaewhich develop in the soil. The carpophore represents the reproductive part of the fungus, with the task ...

Why is Russian salad called that and does it really come from Russia?

Why is Russian salad called that and does it really come from Russia?

Born between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, theRussian salad (born as Olivier salad because of its inventor Lucien Olivier) is a mix of potatoes, carrots, peas and mayonnaise, often with eggs, tuna or pickles, all cut into perfect cubes like an edible mosaic. In reality, the name is partially misleading: this salad you don’t say “Russian” to indicate its originbut ...

Why did cats have bizarre faces in medieval manuscripts?

Why did cats have bizarre faces in medieval manuscripts?

Cat king, Germany, circa 1450. Scheibler’sches Wappenbuch – BSB Cod.icon. 312c Strange faces with human features, elongated or crushed bodies: why in medieval manuscripts i cats don’t look like real cats? The particular shapes given to these animals have nothing to do with the personal skill of the authors involved in their creation, but it is a precise choice given ...

Where is the smallest museum in Italy located and how big is it?

Where is the smallest museum in Italy located and how big is it?

AI generated image After ten years of activity, and a year of closure, it reopened in the summer of 2025 smallest museum in Italy, “The time box” (also from the name of the association that manages it, chaired by Mario Sotgiu). We are in Sardinia, ad Arzachenain the Gallura province of North-East Sardinia: here, in a space of around twenty ...