You know: kittens, puppies or small children often inspire tenderness even in the hardest hearts. This feeling can be explained through a combination of evolutionary factors And neurobiological. From an evolutionary point of view, Konrad Lorenz introduced the concept of “baby scheme”, according to which some typical characteristics of children and puppies evoke Innate answers of care and protection. At ...
Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Despite being the most appreciated museums of Italy and the world, the monumental Uffizi Galleries of Florence They are not born as a museum, but as a bureaucratic place, and the name suggests their original destination. The history of the Uffizi begins in 1560when The first Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo I de ‘Medici erected a ...
Heavenly map at the moment of the conspiracy between Luna and Pleiadi at 5 in the morning of June 23. Credits: Stellarium. The sky of the month of June He is ready to show, especially with astronomical events that involve our natural satellite, the Moon. The latter will be Full on 11 Junein what has been renamed “Full moon of ...
Make the spiders of the Fluorescent red silk This is the result obtained by researchers from the University of Bayreuth in a recent study published in the scientific journal Angewandte Chemie. But what was their purpose? The goal was not to produce more beautiful cobwebs or to lay the foundations to create spider-man, rather, research aimed to demonstrate that thegenetic ...
Representation of the “Snake” game present on Nokia phones. Credit: HMD/Nokia. If you were born between the 80s and 90s, who knows how many times you have played a Snake, The famous snake video game. But if you think that this mobile pastime is relatively recent, you are only partially in the right because, in reality, Snake has much older ...
Work by Gordon Frazer – “Cannibal Feast on the Island of Tanna, New Hebrides” The term “cannibal“Today rooted in our vocabulary to describe ruthless or cruel individuals and deeply anchored in our imagination it may seem as ancient as humanity itself. Yet, it has one precise birth date And above all a mysterious story, made of linguistic misunderstandings, ideological manipulations ...
After more than 60 years of research, scientists have finally revealed because some cats have the orange hair. The answer is hidden in their genes, in particular in a small portion of the chromosome x. Two research teams – one from Stanford University in the United States and the other of Kyushu University in Japan – have independently discovered one ...
The 5 oldest cities in the world still inhabited they are located in the famous area of Near East call “Fertile crescent“, where the first were born crops and the first farms. The city born thanks to the Revolution of Neolithic When our ancestors discovered theagriculture and thefarmbegan to produce more food than necessary: this surplus it could be exchanged ...
March 18, 2003 Saddam Hussein He ordered his son Qusay to withdraw from the Iraqi central bank the sum of a billion dollars in cash: Iraq was about to be invaded by the armed forces of United States And the dictator wanted to take the money before the enemies came. Two thirds of the money were found by the Americans ...
Does it make sense to choose a hotel based only on the average of online reviews? Or buy a cosmetic product just because “90% have seen improvements”? Every day we make decisions based on numbers and statistics: but what happens when the data is missing? Whether it is information never collected, neglected or deliberately omitted, Even what we are not ...