Ecology

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 ...

matrice immagine pixel

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 ...

libro

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 ...

Immagine

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 ...

Gelato e sete

Because it is thirsty after the ice cream: it is the fault of the sugars

Imagine being on the beach, thirsty under the hottest hours sun, and see one of the classic ice cream carts on the seafront pass. Optimal! Ice cream you refresh yourself momentarily (and knows you!), but shortly afterwards it leads you to have almost more thirsty than before. It seems almost paradoxical, but science provides us with clear answers: after eating ...

turismo culturale

Record museums in Italy: the Colosseum leads cultural tourism

The cultural tourism It is a driving sector for the Italian economy, with the city of art such as Rome and Florence at the top of the preferences of tourists. The historical, artistic and cultural heritage of the Belpaese attracts an increasing number of visitors every year, with UNESCO sites, large cities, historic centers and villages among the main travel ...

viaggio in treno

The longest train journey in the world goes from Europe to Asia and colleague Portugal and Singapore

The longer travel by train in the world affects about 18,755 kilometerscrosses two continents (Europe and Asia), 13 different countries And an undescribable variety of environments, landscapes, cultures and stories! Let’s talk about the Lagos-Singapore section … it could almost seem the title of a novel with the famous Belgian investigator Hercule Poirot as the protagonist, and instead it is ...