Ecology

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How much iron is in the human body?

In our body flows the bloodand we all agree on this. However, not everyone knows that his function main is that of transport things, above all oxygen And anhydride carbonism. This transport capacity is due to the presence of a metal: The iron. Every human being has iron that flows in its veins and arteries. We are not talking about ...

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What are limited spaces and why they put us restlessness and sadness

Hotel corridors and deserted hospital, parking without living soul in the middle of the night, schools and closed shopping centers are all examples of space limb (from the Latin limen“Threshold”), or that category of “non-places” characterized by a function of Liminal stateie of transition or connection Among other places and environments, however emptied of the normal human presence that animates ...

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What is the story of the Watergate, the most serious political scandal in the history of the United States

The Watergate scandal It is the largest political scandal in the history of the United States, which emerged during the campaign for the 1972 presidential elections and which led to the resignation of the president Richard Nixon. Five men were arrested in Complex of buildings called Watergatein Washington, while they placed bugs in the offices of the National Committee of ...

entomologia forense

Insects to unmask a crime: forensic entomology on the crime scene

THE’forensic entomology It is one of the applied sciences that provide a Essential contribution to investigations concerning murders: the presence of certain insects on a corpse, for example, proves to be essential to calculate thepost mortem interval (SMEs), i.e. the time spent from the death, but also to reconstruct the facts and evaluate whether the murder occurred at the place ...

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The BRIDEY MURPHY case: how science has solved one of the most famous cases of cryptomnesia

A hypnotic session by Morey Bernstein conducted on Virginia Tighe.Credit: Morey Bernstein, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons The BRIDEY MURPHY CASE He became famous in the United States following the publication of the book The Search for Bridey – “Looking for Bridey Murphy”, written byhypnotist Morey Bernstein. The work told the surprising History of Virginia Tighean American woman who, during ...

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What to see in Amsterdam: the Kattentkabinet, the museum dedicated entirely to cats

The Kattennkabinet in Amsterdam. Credit: Michiel1972, CC by 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Amsterdam It is a city of canals, entertainment, and very particular museums: if you do not plan to go and see the works of Vincent Van Gogh, Vermeer or Mondrian, you could opt for the unusual Kathentkabineta Museum completely dedicated to cats. Literally “Cabinet of cats”, the museum ...

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The story of the “Chinese prehistoric Pompeii”

In addition to the city of Sizhoualong the banks of Yellow riverin China There is also another archaeological site that deserved the nickname of “Pompeii” Chinese: it is Lajiain northern China, an ancient dated village Between the III and the second millennium BCalso located along the yellow river and probably destroyed by one Mud floodjust like Sizhou. Lajia’s settlement is ...

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Why do Portuguese speak in Brazil while in the rest of South America there are Spanish?

The official language of the Brazil is the Portuguese while almost all the rest of theLatin America speaks Spanishthe reason must be sought in complex historical dynamics, international agreements and colonialisms that date back to the very first times of European explorations: the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 assigned the territories to the east to Portugal. After the discovery of ...