Ecology

Culex_pipiens

West Nile Virus in Italy, cases with a outbreak in Lazio go up to 32: the updated map map

Exemplary of Culex Pipiens. Credit: Jedesto, CC By –a 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Continues the monitoring by the Higher Institute of Health on cases of infection from West Nile Virus In Italy: compared to the bulletin published last week, in the last 7 days they have been reported 27 new casesLazio and in particular the province of Latina is the ...

Indovinello del ponte: 4 persone inseguite dagli zombie devono attraversare un ponte in 17 minuti

How to solve the riddle of the bridge? You have 17 minutes to escape zombies

In the’Riddle of the bridge There are Four peoplesome slower and others faster, who to escape a horde of zombies must cross, in the darkness of the night, a dangerous bridge that holds up at most two people at a time. They only have available 17 minutes To save themselves, before the zombies reach them. Considering that the bridge is ...

tizio caio sempronio

Where does the expression “Tizio, Caio and Sempronio” come from? A trio that originates in ancient Rome

“Tizio, Caio and Sempronio” It is an expression that is generally used to indicate someone of indefinite or generic, of the hypothetical people. But who really were these three individuals? And how did they become part of our daily language? The roots of this curious trio sink both inAncient Rome that in the medieval legal traditionrevealing a surprisingly articulated story. ...

fax

7 technologies that have made history and that are now no longer used (or almost)

Fax. Until a few years ago, daily technology was made of physical, noisy, bulky and often little practical objects. Yet, without those devices that have now disappeared from our desks and pockets, we would never have reached the fluid and connected digital world in which we live today. In this article we make a sort of small dip in the ...

chatgpt ci rende più stupidi

Chatgpt makes us stupid? No, but we must be careful: what the MIT study says

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Mit) published one study To understand if and how the use ofartificial intelligence influence thebrain during writing. Many have read this job as “Chatgpt is making us stupid”, but that’s not the case! The results show that Write the brain without activating morebut they do not indicate any loss of intellectual skills when using it. ...