Concerts and events with big crowds can sometimes become dangerous, especially when the concentration of the crowd becomes excessive, as happened in the disasters of Mecca (2006), of Loveparade (2010) or the concert by the US rapper Travis Scott in Houston (2021). This is because when the number of people is very high in a restricted space, the crowd begins ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Crossing the Spanish location of Castrillo de Murciain June, you could attend the event of an ancient Catholic tradition dating back to the 17th century and known as El Colachoor El jump of the colachothat is, the Leap of the devil, A rather unusual ritual, imbued with meaning and able to keep you with the breath suspended for several minutes. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...