The rendering of the Maldives Floating City project. Source: Maldives Floating City Official Website The Maldives Floating City It is a project developed by Dutch docklands Together with the architect Koen Olduis and consists of one island made in an atoll near the capital of the Maldives, Spite. The city will have a form that recalls that of a coral ...
How likely is our baggage to be lost when we fly? In truth, less than what we can think. Losing the luggage at the airport is a fairly rare event: each a thousand passengers, they are lost on average only 6.3 luggage. Of these, 66%, however, is found and returned within 48 hours and the probability that a suitcase will ...
Cancun submarine museum After seeing the most peculiar museums of the old continent, it is time to move and look at the whole world to find the 10 strangest museums in the world. Among these there are collections of toilet and “aliens” finds and specimens of parasites, up to a completely pickled museum and one in which the hair abounds. ...
The Torre crane crane (often shorten simply with the word crane) I am machines of fundamental importance for the carrying out the works within a construction site. They are used to move, move and/or raise heavy objects in various points of the construction site and are necessary when the works are carried out on Important Plano-Altimetric extensions. A crane is ...
The Christianity states decisively that There is only one Godand for this reason it is universally classified among the monotheistic religionstogether withJudaism and toIslam. However, some tensions emerge at a more careful look. The heart of the Christian faith revolves around a theological paradox: the Trinityaccording to which God is one but there is three “people” (Father, Son and Holy ...
It is a routine we do daily, almost without thinking about it: first the shampoo and then the conditioner. But Why do we do this? If the order is very inverted, would the result be the same? The answer is no. Shampoo and conditioner have different functions: the first cleanthe second revives and restores the balance of the hair. The ...
The August 10thnight of San Lorenzo, is traditionally linked to the show of the “falling stars” and the custom of expressing a desire. In reality, those we see are not stars, but fragments of ice and rock left by the comets that, when the earth crosses the swarm of the Perseids, enter the atmosphere and are set for friction, creating ...
There Bibliothèque de l’Arsenalin Paris, has preserved a volume in its archives “mysterious“For more than a century: inside this text, they seem to be illustrated Native-American pictogramsdepicting often naked stylized men and in ambiguous attitudes. However, in the 18th century no one knew how to decipher exactly their meaning and therefore this text, nicknamed Le Livre des SauvagesMeaning what The ...
The life expectancy in Gaza has collapsed in the last year. Credit: Jaber Jehad Badwan In one year of war, The life expectancy in the Gaza Strip has collapsed over 30 years. According to a study published on The Lancethas passed from 75.5 to 40.6 years: a 46%reduction. For comparison, in Italy today life expectancy is over 83 years. Another ...
Madaraneko (cat Soriano) painted according to Nihonga, by Takeuchi Seihō (1924). Credits: Wikimedia Commons Often, when we meet a work of art of origin Japanesewe can easily recognize its origin. But why? Of course, themes and iconographies can be recurring, but there is a technique that is often underlying many contemporary works: the nihonga. This term was coined during the ...