Julia Butterfly Hill on the tree. Credits: Ethos Before Greta Thunberg there was another environmental activist who catalyzed the world’s attention on important environmental causes: Julia Butterfly Hill. The very young American activist, born on February 18, 1974 in Missouri, in December 1997 he climbed a thousand-year-old Californian redwood named “Luna” 61 meters high to prevent the logging of it ...
The fact that in winter we tend to be hungrier and eat more is not only due to psychological, social, cultural factors, but also to one specific brain nucleus of the thalamus called xiphoid nucleus (Xi). This nucleus is activated after a long stay in the cold because the energy expenditure in our body it becomes noticeable and needs to ...
Credit: CNSAS In the night between Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th December, the thirty-two year old speleologist Ottavia Piana she was trapped inside the cave Bueno Fontenonear Lake Iseo in the province of Bergamo, after being injured due to a fall from a height of 5 meters which caused trauma to her legs, chest and face. At the moment Piana ...
The indicator public debt/GDP it is one of the tools most used by analysts and investors to evaluate the sustainability of a country’s debt and its ability to meet financial obligations. This ratio allows us to understand the extent to which public (or sovereign) debt affects the national economy and allows us to compare the debt of a country with ...
When we think about the yeast of beerthe first image that might come to mind is that of small dry granules or a loaf soft and humiduseful for making dough rise. From a scientific point of view, brewer’s yeast is composed of colonies of unicellular fungi (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). But if we looked at it under a microscope, what would we ...
The skyline (in Italian translatable as “sky line”) is the profile or panoramic view of a city seen from afar, as if it were on the horizon line. From his observation one can easily derive aimage in two dimensions which, like the plant, is one of the most distinctive elements of a city, as if it were afingerprint of its ...
Contrary to what you might think, the dishwasher salt It’s not meant to make plates and glasses shinier, but to avoid limescale encrustations which tend to deposit on the dishes during washing. In fact, home water contains calcium salts (especially the limestonewhich is essentially calcium carbonate) e magnesium which can form clearly visible encrustations especially on pans and pots. To ...
The Standing Committee of the Bern Convention voted on 3 December 2024 in favor of downgrading the protection level of the wolf (Canis lupus) from “strictly protected” to “protected”. The proposal was presented by the European Commission on 27 September and the change will come into force in starting from March 7, 2025 unless at least 17 Member States object. ...
Over the course of the year we have warned you several times against telephone scams perpetrated using foreign prefixes, from “wangiri” scams to fake job offers to sentimental ones. In this article we provide you with a recap Of what are the dangerous numbers not to answerwhether they should contact you via phone calls or messages. But we won’t limit ...
Some paintingsin the history of humanity, have transcended simple aesthetic appeal to become gods true artistic and cultural icons. This is the case of paintings that we will see in this article, which are currently the ones that have been sold to highest figures in history. From the Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vincithe most expensive painting ever (450.3 million ...