Ecology

suonare e declino cognitivo

Playing a tool slows down the aging of the brain: here are the results of the study

Playing a tool along the arch of life helps keep the brain younger. This is what emerges from a study recently published in the magazine Plos Biologywho analyzed how much to study a musical instrument in the course of life would help to preserve the cognitive performance and the brain functionality in tasks related to listening in old age. The ...

A i Lofoten

What are the cities with the shortest name in the world and where do they find?

Å in the Lofoten, Norway; Credits: Ximonic (Simo Räsänen), CC By -Ssa 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons I am Three cities whose name is made up of a single letterand which are therefore in all respects the cities with the shortest name in the world: TOfishing village in the Lofoten islands, Norway, whose name means “small river”; Then Ysmall locality in ...

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What is “liquid society” expected by Zygmunt Bauman in which we live today

A visual representation of what is called “liquid society”, in constant change. In the 2000the Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman published Liquid Modernity To describe modern society, opening a new interpretative chapter that would have influenced generations of scholars, philosophers, journalists and curious readers. Bauman claimed that modernity “solid”that founded on institutions stablestrong identities, lasting careers, consolidated social ties, was now ...

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Bartering a red staple with a two -story house: the absurd story of Kyle Macdonald

As absurd as it may seem, a Canadian man in 2006 managed to barter a Simple red graffette from office for a real two -story house. Was it a scam? Actually no: the protagonist of the story, Kyle Macdonald, He began to perform a series of exchanges online, trying to obtain objects with an increasingly high value every time, finally ...

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Where tobacco is produced and cultivated today, from the plant of the gods to consumer product

Although the tobacco be widely associated, in the collective imagination, al American continentit soon became a product a planetary diffusion. Already in the colonial era, the Europeans contributed to his overseas marketing and to the creation of a flourishing industry stimulated by the strong growth of his demand derivative products (cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, just to name a few). With ...

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What is the pentagram, from a musical symbol to sign the occult and esotericism

When it comes to “staff”many people confuse i Two symbols very different between loco, accounted for only by the name and reference to number five. On the one hand we find the musical pentagramthat is, the set of five parallel horizontal lines use to write music, on the other the esoteric pentagramor the five -pointed star traced with a single ...

cinetosi mal di mare

The science of seasickness: because there is nausea on the boat and how to prevent it

The technical term of the “seasickness” is kinetosisa common syndrome characterized by nausea, dizziness and vomitwhich was born in response to the movement physicist or apparent: this means that it can arise both when we find ourselves on something that moves – be it a ship, a plane or a car – but also when we are facing screen of ...

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The longest word in the world and other very long words

There longest word in the world It would be an English term that defines the chemical name of the titinaa protein, and it is so long that to pronounce it in full, it takes from 2 to 3 hours. This word, which is difficult to write in full because it would occupy several dozen pages on Word, is MethionyLthreonyLthreonyl (…) ...