Credit: Taiwan Land Development Corporation If you think that Guernica of Picasso or The Fourth Stateor by Pellizza da Volpedo are large paintings, you have not yet seen the Great Buddha of the Century (世紀大佛)made by Taiwanese painter and calligraphy expert Hung Chi Sung. The painting, which saw its title formalized by none other than Guinness World Recordit’s big 12,086.59 ...
As the peak of the summer holidays approaches, what better time than now to discover together which places in Italy have the sky with the least light pollution. Whether you want to observe with the naked eye or with a telescope, the best places of our peninsula where you can organize observation sessions to observe the spectacle of the night ...
Credit: Alessandro Sabucci, via Wikimedia Commons The box jellyfishalso known as “box jellyfish“, are highly marine invertebrates poisonous belonging to the Cubozoa class. Characterized by a shape cubic and long tentacles, have balance organs and well-developed eyes. They are excellent swimmers and predators, capable of causing serious burns with their nematocysts. However, there is no need to worry excessively: although ...
In summer it is impossible not to notice it: walking along a road the asphalt in front of you looks wet. However, when we reach the area dotted with a series of bright and flickering puddles we realize that it is not, and that this effect continues to recede on the following stretch of road. This happens because we are ...
THE social media Today they can be a place of great exchange of ideassharing of opinions and expansion of our knowledge network beyond spatial limits. However, more often than not, discussions (often in comments) degenerate into aggressive and violent conversationsranging from attacking to discrediting, from offending to defaming and humiliating. But why does it happen? Theanonymitytogether with psychological phenomena such ...
In the first part of the year, Google had announced a radical change to improve the privacy of Chrome users: the disabling of third-party cookies through the initiative Privacy Sandbox. However, recent developments indicate a significant change of direction by the Mountain View giant which, contrary to what it had stated months ago, will keep third-party cookies on Chromethe web ...
The recent one controversy which involved Imane Khelifboxer Algerian at the Olympics in Paris 2024, has sparked a debate on the topic ofinclusion in competitions sports feminine. The controversy emerged after the Italian Angela Carini decided to withdraw from the meeting with Khelif, and this has raised doubts about the legitimacy of his participation. Some have erroneously (let’s repeat, erroneously) ...
Shearing doesn’t make you lose weight: Let’s immediately dispel this false myth. Sweating is an important process of thermoregulation of the body and causes the loss waterfall and go up minerals (this is why immediately after a workout in which we sweat a lot the scales could show a lower weight), but these must be quickly reintegrated drinking. So yes ...
Meta Llama 3.1. Credit: Meta. Llama 3.1 of Meta represents a significant leap in the field of open source artificial intelligence. With a capacity of 405 billion parameters (in its largest version, that is Llama 3.1 405B), at the moment It is the most advanced and powerful open source model ever released. This new version supports an extended context length ...
The chemists of the Rijksmuseum and of theUniversity of Amsterdam they discovered and disclosed in a study published in July 2024 on Heritage Science how it did Rembrandta great Dutch painter and engraver of the seventeenth century, to create his famous details based on “gold varnish”. Using sophisticated spectroscopic techniques, the doctoral students Fréderique Broers and Nouchka de Keyser were ...