The desire to please and being accepted by others is deeply rooted in human nature and, from a sociological and anthropological point of view, indispensable for building our identity. There are many possible explanations for the reasons for this psychological dynamic: living with others represented one of the biggest evolutionary advantages For Homo sapiensand for the evolution of his cognition. ...
The image highlights how the pointer used on Windows is asymmetrical. Credit: MSPowerUser. The December 9, 1968during the conference organized in San FranciscoCalifornia, from ACM/IEEE (Association for Computing Machinery/Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the engineer Douglas Engelbart presented the first prototype of the mouse and the graphical user interface, usable thanks to the latter. The initial pointer – i.e. ...
These are gray days in every sense for theEmilia Romagnawhich is back in Red alert due to the floods of the rivers, and that he still has a weekend of heavy rain. Specifically, the areas in red are the mountains, hills and plains of the Bolognese area, the central plain areas (Modena, Reggio Emilia and Parma) and the Romagna basins, ...
The LOVE statue by Maurizio Cattelan with his famous middle finger. Credit: Google Arts and Culture Walking through the center of Milan, and going to the finance area of Piazza Affari (between the Cadorna and Cairoli squares), it is impossible not to notice in front of Palazzo Mezzanotte, home of the Milan Stock Exchange, a gigantic marble sculpture depicting a ...
In the heart ofAmazonsomeone indigenous communities they perceive the forest as something much more complex than a simple collection of plants and animals. For them, the forest is a living organism, endowed with thought, will and ability to communicate. This approach is deeply rooted in animistic and perspectivist conceptions and it emerged over time, in a somewhat stereotyped way, also ...
For almost a decade, Google has accustomed users to discover new updates of Android – the operating system developed by Mountain View for mobile devices, the first commercial version of which was released in 2008 – through names of sweets. Versions like “Cupcake”, “Lollipop”, “Oreo” and “Pie” were accompanied by colorful icons that made the launch of each release of ...
Remember the classical columns and theirs capitals that at school, during art or technical drawing lessons, we were taught to belong to Doric style, ionic And Corinthian? In reality we should speak more correctly of “orders“, that is, architectural elements composed of several parts: there is a vertical support part, i.e. the column actual (composed of base, shaft and capital) ...
The invention of jeans fabric, also called denim, it dates back to the 1400swhen in Chieri, in Piedmont, a resistant blue fabric was produced, which was then exported through port of Genoa. A similar fabric was made in Nîmes, France. Denim pants were invented in United States in the nineteenth centuryat the time of the California Gold Rush, and for ...
The scams in the world of online trading and cryptocurrencies have become an increasingly widespread problem, affecting a huge number of Web users every year. People who fall into traps spread online by cyber criminals they often make “missteps” due to naivety and lack of attention when browsing online. Defending yourself from these deceptions is absolutely possible, provided you be ...
Credits: cafuego, CC BY–SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The “comet of the century” C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) it is continuing to put on a show in the sunset sky after its close pass with the Earth on October 12, but its brightness is decreasing and the next few days will be the last days to be able to observe it in our ...