In United Stateseverything seems to be “bigger”: the roadsthe housingthe carthe portions of foodi supermarkets. It is an image that affects anyone who visits the country for the first time. But why is everything so big in northern America? This trend is not a simple trait folklorebut the result of a combination of historical, geographical, economic and cultural factors who ...
When we talk about “academy“, The first image that comes to mind is probably that of a temple of knowledge: a sacred place made of books, silence, rigor and teaching. The concept of” academy “has its roots in theAncient Greecewhen a sacred wood At the gates of Athens he became the place where Plato he founded his philosophical school. Since ...
Think of a alien: probably now you are imagining a green/gray man from Large black eyes And from the bossy hands. But where exactly this imagination is born from? The idea of ”green men” was not born with the science fiction of the 1900s, but has much older roots: the first track dates back to an English legend of the ...
What’s better than a nice bath in this torrid heat? Too bad that, like every single time we are on vacation, here comes the menstruation and we can forget swims and you unwind in fresh water … we are kidding! It is a false myth: When you have menstruation, you can quietly swimwhether in the pool, at the sea, at ...
The Scaliger Castle of Sirmione It is, to date, one of the best preserved castles in Italy, and one of the major engineering and architectural expressions of what is called lake fortification. To make it fascinating, in addition to engineering solutions adopted by the designers, there is also the legend Of the ghost of Ebengardo who, it is said, vague ...
Water games in Piazza Navona (Rome). Credit: Giovanni Paolo Panini, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons Very few know that a Piazza Navona existed a real artificial lake: No warship, however, nor gladiators in action, only a festive crowd of popular and nobles, gathered to enjoy an unusual show in the heart of Rome. Was Pope Innocenzo Xin the seventeenth century, ...
The recent collapse of the advertising signs on the Torre Generali of Citylife in Milan designed by Zaha Hadid brought to light the possible problems of metal structures Compared to the actions produced by high temperatures. Although it is not yet confirmed (or denial) that this is the cause of the actual collapse of the reticular structure that supports the ...
Credit: Google. Veo 3 it is finally also arrived in Italyand its availability represents a turning point in the field of video generation based on artificial intelligence. It is a system developed by Google Deepmind that allows you to Create short clip realistic videos – the maximum duration of 8 seconds – in which the moving images they are perfectly ...
A strong explosion in Rome in a petrol and LPG distributor caused a big fire. When it comes to fuels fossils, one of the most common is the LPGthat is, the liquefied oil gas. It is a mixture of propane (c3H8), Butano (C4H10) inside which there are also small percentages of other hydrocarbons such as etano, propylene or IsoButano. This ...
TO Rome there was one strong explosion To a petrol and LPG distributor in via dei Gordiani 32, in the east of the city: the accident caused a fire from which a dense column of smoke was raised, visible from different points of the capital. According to the Ansa, the explosion would have been caused by the “detachment of a ...