If you are a regular user of social platforms, you will have used it countless times. What are we referring to? Al “Like” buttonObviously. Have you ever wondered how the “Like” button was born and why it has become so popular on social media? Well, you should know that the “like” was not invented by Facebookbut was first introduced on ...
You’re watching GeopolitiX Don’t miss out on more content from Geopop Who will become the new president of the United States of America? Former Republican President Donald Trump or the vice-president of the Biden administration, the Democrat Kamala Harris? What is certain is that the electionsdated Tuesday November 5 2024are actually already underway regarding postal voting ei national polls they ...
Due to not very gentle movements, the yogurt can splatter and settle on the flap of the jar that acts as a lid. But why does it stay there attacked like a stalactite? And why does it seem to be thicker (better “viscous”) than the yogurt that remains in the jar? To answer these questions we must take into consideration ...
The record fortallest uninhabited building in the world belongs to Goldin Finance 117also known as China 117 Tower and located in Tianjin, China. It is a skyscraper from 126 floors who, with his 595.5 meters in height, it is also the sixth tallest building in the world. But how is it possible that such a building has been uninhabited for ...
In the night between 1 and 2 October 2024 theIran he launched approx 180 ballistic missiles against Israelin response to Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon (which led, among many things, to the death of Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah) and thekilling of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, celebrated in Tehran on July 31st. The Iranian military operation against Israel, known by its ...
Credit: Clemzouzou69, via Wikimedia Commons Sometimes in the animal world it is possible to witness behaviors that may appear, to the untrained eye, to be totally senseless. This is the case of the so-called “death spiral”that phenomenon in which the legionary ants find themselves in fairly common circumstances a going round and round non-stop when a single file closes in ...
There Three Gorges Dam is currently thelargest hydroelectric plant in the worlda mammoth engineering work built in the province of Hubei, China, along the Yangtze River, which came into operation in 2012 with a capacity of 22,500 MW. His dam, high 181 meterscreates a basin of water that extends well 1080km2. Well, according to a NASA calculation the plant would ...
Snoopy plush dressed as an astronaut used as an indicator of apparent weightlessness in the Orion capsule for NASA’s Artemis 1 mission. Credit: NASA Perhaps not everyone knows that there is a decades-long connection between the NASA And Snoopythe famous comic book character Peanuts designed by Charles M. Schulzwhich in fact is the unofficial mascot of the American space agency ...
THE anti-theft systems to combat theft of goods hidden under sweatshirts or in bags and backpacks we are all aware of them, given that they are at the entrance to every shop and supermarket. But how many times have you asked yourself how they work Exactly? Why do they ring for some goods and not others? How anti-shoplifting systems work ...
Are you receiving calls or messages from numbers with the area code +44? Unless you have family and friends contacting you from United Kingdomit is likely that these are due to yet another telephone scam with a foreign prefix. The mechanism is quite simple and follows the same pattern as someone who contacts you from the Portugal prefix, the Netherlands ...