THE’Harakiri and the Seppukutwo ways to refer to suicide ritual practiced only by the caste of samuraiare among the most fascinating and complex aspects of Japanese culture. This act was not a gesture of despair but of extreme dignityin fact, to save themselves from the dishonor, the legendary Japanese warriors killed themselves with the Harakiri method, a brutal gesture which ...
THE’riddle of the three of the It has been called “the logical puzzle more difficult in the world“Knights and Brigands”, Those logical problems in which a part of the population says Always there truth and the other mind Always. The most famous of these puzzles is “The riddle of the two doors”, also known for having appeared in the film ...
Credit: Tideaway The new super sewer Thames Tideaway Tunnel from well 25 km and from the ability of 1.6 million m3 It is operational in London, in the United Kingdom, intercepts and transfers the excess waters by reducing the fogs annual in the Thames of 95%. The mega project, one of the greatest that the capital has ever seen, requested ...
Do we share 60% of our DNA with bananas? This statement circulates a lot as a scientific curiosity, but it is absolutely false And the result of an incorrect interpretation of a genetic study (never published) that dates back to 2013. By taking the trouble to view the study and what have actually said its authors, the reality is very ...
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 ...