Ecology

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Naumachies in Rome: how did the Romans carry out naval battles in the Colosseum?

Among the various shows proposed by the emperors inside Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), such as the fights between animals, the executions and the fights between gladiators, the most grandiose and difficult to organize they were definitely them naumachieGreek term meaning “naval battles“. These shows, attested by both historical and iconographic sources, were to present technical difficulties not recently, first of all ...

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UN Special Committee: “Israel’s methods in Gaza are compatible with genocide”

In a series of relationships of theUN published from September 2024 to today (for further information see the sources of this article), the “Special Committee to investigate Israeli practices that affect the human rights of the Palestinian people and other Arabs in the occupied territories” declared that the activity (military and otherwise) conducted by State of Israel inside the Gaza ...

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The oldest DNA fragments ever discovered are around 2 million years old: what they reveal to us

The fragments of Older DNA never discovered date back to approx 2 million years ago and belong to different species of trees, plant, large mammals And insects who inhabited the north of Greenland during the Pleistocene. Unlike what is described in science fiction novels, it is therefore not the genome of dinosaurs. The discovery, documented in a study published in ...

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Institutional sites of Italian municipalities disappeared from Google: anomalies in SEO indexing?

If in the past few hours you have tried to search for the institutional website of your municipality on Google and you were unable to find it, know that you are not alone. As various reports on Reddit demonstrate, in fact, the disappearance of the institutional sites of many Italian municipalities from Google search results has afflicted several local administrations, ...

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Is it true that smart TVs spy on us and collect personal data? How to protect our privacy

The smart TVs (which unlike traditional TVs are connected to the Internet and have apps and a dedicated operating system) do not spy on us, but many models can collect detailed information on what we watch and how we interact with the TV, including data from the operating system of them and the apps that are installed on them. This ...

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The most important evidence of the “Snowball Earth” theory discovered

Between 717 and 661 million years agoduring the late Proterozoic, the Earth went through the so-called “Sturtian glaciation”. It was the most extreme glacial period that has ever occurred, with ice covering our planet entirely from the North Pole to the South Pole and an average global temperature reaching –50 °C. This theory, developed by the Australian geologist Douglas Mawson ...

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73 years since the Polesine flood which devastated the provinces of Rovigo and Venice

The November 14, 1951 The Po broke the banks giving life to the sadly known one Polesine flood: on that occasion they lost their lives 101 people, 84 of which aboard a rescue truck. There was also a significant loss of human life economic lossgiven that in addition to roads and bridges, gods 157 thousand hectares of arable land well ...

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Why do we blush when we’re embarrassed? It is a physiological response to a strong emotion

How many times have we found ourselves, more or less, in situations in which we felt our cheeks flush with heat and we realized that we were blushing? Whether it’s the sense of inadequacy, a strong embarrassmentsuch as seeing the person we like suddenly, or a feeling of anger, it is important to know that any emotionally intense moment can ...

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What are cargo cults, the beliefs of indigenous peoples and what does Prince Philip have to do with it

THE cargo cults they are a form of religious belief which developed between several indigenous populations of the Pacific islands, such as New Guinea, Micronesia and Melanesiafollowing the contact with Western colonizers. These cults were based (and partly still are based) on the belief in the arrival of transport ships or aircraft (in English “cargo”) loaded with goods and products ...