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 ...
The Steinway Tower, side view. Credit: Shop Architects There Steinway Towerofficially known as 111 West 57th Street, is the thinner skyscraper in the world with its height of Ben 435 meters and 84 total floors. Inaugurated in 2022, the tower holds this primacy thanks to its extraordinary height-lurgery ratio of approximately 1:24that is, it is 24 times higher than wide! ...
Art is good for health and improves our psychological well -being: that going to the museum, listening to music and in general to do cultural activities do well to health It is a widespread and historically recurring belief in many different civilizations. But it is more than a rumor, or of a commonplace handed down in the millennia, the positive ...
What are called “cod wars” are Three diplomatic conflictsfor a short time not degenerated in military clashes, developed between Iceland and the United Kingdom for the Right of fishing in the water of the northern Atlantic. The clashes took place in the years 1958-61; 1972-73; 1975-76. In all three cases the cause was the unilateral extension, by the Icelandic authorities, ...
The Montessori method It is an approach to education that stands out for some central elements, such as the autonomy of the child and respect for his style and speed in learning. Designed by the pedagogist Maria Montessori In 1907, when he opened his “Children’s house“In Rome in the historic San Lorenzo district, the Montessori method encourages the child thereexplorationthe ...
Many have happened to open a remote control, a torch or a toy powered by batteries and find a substance dusty, white or grayish, often accompanied by a pungent smell. The temptation to clean everything with your hands is strong; But it’s better do not do itbecause that substance is the visible signal of a dangerous chemical process. Behind that ...