During some brain surgeries, patients may be asked to perform complex tasks, such as playing a musical instrument. This technique, already used for various operations also in Italy, is called surgery with the patient awake (awake brain surgery) and allows doctors to monitor critical brain functions in real time to preserve the patient’s neurological capabilities, taking advantage of the lack ...
THE’learning a foreign language it is a complex process involving various factorsincluding aspects linguistic, psychological and motivational. There is a widespread belief that learning a language becomes progressively better difficult as we age, but what does science say about it? Traditionally, it has been believed that there is a “critical period” during childhood, beyond which language acquisition becomes more difficult. ...
THE memes they have become an integral part of our daily lives, overcoming linguistic and cultural barriers to express ideas, emotions and irony. To be clear, these are typically graphic contents (images, GIFs or video clips) and of an ironic or humorous nature which are shared above all on social networks. These are real expressions of our culture that are ...
A lava tube in Iceland. During volcanic eruptions, spectacular caves, called tubes (or tunnel) of lava. These structures form only under certain conditions, particularly in the presence of washes very fluidly. They can be even tens of kilometers long and often have openings that make them visitable. Lava tubes are widespread throughout the world, particularly in the Hawaiibut they are ...
A Boeing 737-8AS with 181 people on board, including six crew members and 175 passengers, literally crashed into a wall after skidding off the runway at Muan International Airport, South Korea. The tragedy occurred this morning, at 9:07 local time, and the death toll, still being updated, is dramatic: only two people, a flight attendant and a passenger, were found ...
The press it was invented in Chinabut it was rediscovered and perfected in Europe. Originally, fixed characters were used to print, that is, entire pages were composed on a plate which was then printed on paper or another support; later they were introduced movable characterswhich can be moved to compose different texts. In Europe there was such an innovation developed ...
THE radiators (often also called radiators) represent a component of the domestic heating system and allow the transmission of heat in the served environments, through convection and radiation. It is precisely these elements that, in the winter seasons, allow the temperatures of closed spaces to increase. Although nowadays they are in many cases replaced by new devices or different technologies, ...
There Berlin conference it was a series of meetings called by chancellor of theGerman Empire, Otto von Bismarckfollowing the request from Leopold IIking of Belgiumto formalize the possession of the area of the “Congo basin”, defending it from the aims of other European powers, including the France (also a strong promoter of the summit) and the United Kingdom. The works ...
If you have an Apple device and need more storage on it iCloudthe Cupertino giant’s cloud storage service, know that with some targeted measures it is possible to recover precious gigabytes by acting directly from your iPhone, Mac or Windows PC. Among the various things you can do there is checking the “Suggestions for you” section, reducing the size of ...
THE’riddle of the two doorsalso known as the riddle of the gods two guardians, It’s a seemingly simple but insidious logic game.The situation is this: we find ourselves in front of two doors, each of which is guarded by a guardian. We know that one of the two doors leads to the salvation, while the other to death, and we ...