Ecology

tris

The game of the trio, how to never lose: rules and strategies to win

The trio Is it a very popular game and can you play anywhere, but is there a way to always win? Spoiler … does not exist, but if you play carefully it is possible to never lose! We know because, as we will see, everyone (but everyone!) The possible ways in which a game can take place are known. We ...

Morterone

The least populated municipality in Italy has 31 inhabitants: here’s what it is

Credit: by Emibuzz – Own work, CC By -SA 4.0, via Wikemedia Commons The last Istat census of January 2025 counts in our country well 7 896 Municipalities: among these there is one that matters only 31 inhabitants, Mortar In the province of Lecco, the smallest municipality (by population) in Italy. Italian municipalities have extremely different forms, traditions, traditions and ...

thumb ottagono

The geometric riddle that deceives everyone: where is the arrow?

The game is simple: we have a octagon cut out in the cardboard and on each of the Two faces one is designed arrow. The first arrow is inclined to 0 ° compared tovertical axis – we could say that “marks 12” – while the second arrow is inclined to 90 ° compared tovertical axis – In jargon “scores 3”. ...

occhi seppia

Why do cuttlefish have pupils in the shape of W?

The eyes of the seppia (Sepia Officinalis) have one pupil horizontal crack with one “W” form in conditions of full light, while it becomes big and circular when they are in the dark in the absence of light. The common cuttlefish is a cephalopode with a wide and slightly flattened body, characterized by the typical limestone internal shell, the so ...

caglio e formaggio

When the cheese was born and what is the rennet that serves to produce it

The origin of cheese dates back to thousands of years ago, probably between 8 000 and 5 000 years ago, when the first breeders discovered that the milktransported into animal stomachs, turned spontaneously into a cheese, thanks to the action of the rennet. It is a mixture of enzymes, present in the final portion of the ruminant stomach, which favors ...

biografia papa francesco bergoglio

The story of Pope Francis, the first Argentine Jesuit pontiff who arrived from the Americas

Pope Francisto the century Jorge Mario Bergogliohe died today April 21, 2025 at 7:35 at the age of 88 after 12 years of pontificate at Casa Santa Marta, in Rome, where he recently returned after being hospitalized at the Gemelli hospital. Born a Buenos Aires The December 17th 1936. After graduating, in 1958 he entered as novice in the company ...

rotolacampi

What are the rollacamps, the iconic “hay balls” rolling in the desert in western films

In the Western movies We often see “rotary shrubs” that move in the desert between cowboy and sheriffs pushed by the wind, i rollacampi or “tugerweed“But what are they actually? It is not a pile of tangled sticks but of particular vegetable structures of some plants which, once dry and for the end of the life cycle, yes they detach ...