An earthquake of magnitude 4.7 hit the Greece at 4:20 (3:20 in Italy). As reported by the Ingv, the epicenter was located a 11 km east of Uranopolia town with less than 1000 inhabitants in North Eastern Greece, at a depth of 9 km. As often happens, the first temporary estimates are slightly different: the USGS (United States Geological Survey) ...
Are Italians satisfied with their lives? According to the “aspects of daily life” of Istat, Less than 1 in 2 Italians say he is really satisfied with his life. But there is an even more critical figure: less than 1 out of 4 believes that you can trust others, a figure down compared to 2023. Let’s see in this article ...
Commemorative plaque of the Soviet spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean in Samara, Russia; Credits: Apetrov09703, CC By –a 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The “Five of Cambridge“, Also known as” The Magnificent Five “were a group of double -scale British spies that ended up writing one of the most surprising pages of the Cold War. Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, Donald ...
In the most heated conversations it is not unusual to use very expressions colorfulsometimes even scurrilous like the bad wordsaccompanying them to the phrase “forgive the Frenchism“. But why associate certain expressions with the French? Call it” Frenchness ” gives a sarcastic tone to the word or the scurrile expressions used, precisely because they are associated with a language traditionally ...
THE’Zeigornik effect It can be considered as a cognitive bias According to which people tend to remember incomplete tasks more and with insistence than those already finished. The unfinished activities generate a sort of mental tension that results in maintaining “active”; This is why our mind torments us until we complete them: conclude them means to relieve tension. Do you ...
The Rungrado May Day Stadium It is the largest stadium in the world, capable of hosting 114 thousand spectators. It rises on an island of the Taedong river, a Pyongyang, North Korea And it represents not only a sports facility, but also a political and cultural symbol of the country. There is not much information about this mega structure, but ...
We all have it at home, in the belief of the kitchen or in the pantry, but many perhaps do not know how it is done and how it acts from a chemical point of view. The baking soda It is a basic compound that, dissolved in water, increases the pH and can neutralize acids. Ingested, reacts with the stomach ...
The Baku city circuit in Azerbaijan. Credit @F1, via “X” The Baku circuit It rises between the city streets of the capital of Azerbaijan, where from 2016 the single -seater of Formula 1 run. His name means “cities where the wind blows”: here the gusts can exceed 50–70 km/hputting pilots and engineers in difficulty in the search for the right ...
There larger war ship of the US Navy is the Zumwalt class destroyer: It is a technologically avant -garde medium, whose most particular feature is the so -called hull tutrohomeparticularly difficult to identify by the enemies radar also thanks to its particular square superstructure. Initially the project provided 32 units But, given the high production costs, the number has been ...
Rod Lavever and Roger Federer with the Laver Cup. From Twitter There Laver Cup He returns to the United States for his eighth edition, scheduled from 19 to 21 September in San Francisco. Team competition between Team Europe And World team It was born in 2017 from an idea of tennis legend Roger Federer and his agent Tony Godsick. The ...