Ecology

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The relaunch of tourism in Chernobyl: between historical conservation and sustainable promotion

The competent authorities of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the municipal administration of Slavutych have formalized a Memorandum in agreement aimed at promoting a sustainable and innovative tourist model. The agreement aims to redevelop these sites, historically marginalized, transforming them into symbols of resilience and development in the context of reconstruction postbellic of Ukraine. This initiative is part of ...

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Would you ever eat a blue steak? How the color of food can influence the perception of taste

Artistic representation generated with AI. In a psychological experiment conducted in the 70s, some participants tried a strong disgust After discovering, during a dinner in the dark, that I had eaten one blue steak. Some volunteers was served a shiny dinner under special lights that hid its true color. Initially, the participants appreciated the meal but when the normal lights ...

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The dynamics of the crazy crowd: the dangers of when there are too many people at a concert

Concerts and events with big crowds can sometimes become dangerous, especially when the concentration of the crowd becomes excessive, as happened in the disasters of Mecca (2006), of Loveparade (2010) or the concert by the US rapper Travis Scott in Houston (2021). This is because when the number of people is very high in a restricted space, the crowd begins ...

incidente stradale

Road accidents in Italy: what statistics say

The Road accidents tell an avoidable tragedy made of distraction, high speed and poor awareness. But the numbers also offer us a glimmer of optimism: in Italy, dead and injured by accident are down For over a decade. Who are the most frequent victims? What are the most fragile ages? And how are we put compared to the rest of ...

night sight

What is the night mode of the camera of our smartphones and how it works

Today as today we can take photos of good quality even when there is little light, for example in the evening, simply by bringing out the phone from the pocket. But how one succeeds smartphone To return such detailed images in conditions that, until a few years ago, would have put it completely into crisis? All this is thanks to ...

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The images are numbers, here is the pixel mathematics and the digitization of images

What do i have to do with numbers with the digital images? When we take a photograph with a digital device, such as the phone, visual information is converted and stored in the form of numerical information ready to be viewed later. During the acquisition, in fact, the image is divided into many squares, called pixel, to which some Numbers ...

Haegumgang Hotel

The history of the Haegumgang Hotel, the first floating hotel in the world

A floating hotel 7 floors, with 200 rooms and weight of 10,000 tons capable of hosting hundreds of people: it looks like a bizarre idea, and instead it is theHaegumgang Hotelonce called Four Seasons Barrier Reef Resortan imposing floating structure in operation by 1988 al 2008built in Singapore but which traveled between Australia, Vietnam, and North Korea before being definitively ...

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What really is the Babel Library, how Borges’ story works and from where

There Babel Libraryit would also make the largest library in the world pale, because it is such a large place as to contain all possible books. Would contain in several volumes any combination of letters, punctuation and spaces, Precisely for this reason, building it would be impossible for space issues, and useless because finding you an accomplished sense information would ...

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A “hanging” skyscraper on an asteroid in space: the absurd project of the Tower Analemma

Render design. Credit: Cloud Architecture Office With theTower analem We want to reverse the traditional terrestrial foundation scheme, instead relying on a spatial support foundation from which the tower is suspended. This system is known how Universal Orbital Support System (Uoss), and provides for the positioning of a great asteroid In orbit around the earth, to which to suspend the ...