Credit: Fars Media Corporation There Iranian Morality Police (“Gašt-e Eršâd” in Farsi) is a branch of Iran’s law enforcement agency whose mission is to promote Islamic customs and repress any “deviance” in this regard. This religious police body has been active, under various denominations, since Iranian Revolution of 1979. It has earned a bad reputation over time, having always been ...
The public debt it is the sum of all the money that a State owes to those who have lent it money. It is usually expressed with respect to GDP of that State. When a government spends more than it accumulates (thanks to taxpayers’ taxes and other revenues), it must borrow money to cover the difference; this money is obtained ...
Sarcasm And irony there are two forms of expression (and also two rhetorical figures) that have a certain amount of in common ambiguity and they serve to say something that isn’t exactly what it seemsbut with different styles and purposes. While irony can be a form of expression light and friendlysarcasm often is more critical or even aggressiveaimed at highlighting ...
Cars a fully autonomous driving they could improve it road safety, accessibility to transport and energy efficiency. However, there are still many challenges to be addressed for the large-scale diffusion of vehicles in which human control is negligible or non-existent. One of these is to ensure that their performance meets the company’s expectations in terms of safety And legality. Today, ...
Throughout history the hygiene habits of humanity have changed profoundly, due to new scientific discoveries and inventionsbut above all of cultural context. We don’t know exactly when the man began to wash himself, but it is probable that this happened since Prehistoryin relation to innate sense of hygiene that many mammals (like us) possess. With the transition from a hunter/gatherer ...
How they come classified the ski slopes? This is a question that every novice skier has asked themselves at least once in their life. The answer is quite simple and is based on one three-color classification (blue, red, black) linked to average slope of the slopeboth longitudinal and transversal. Generally, the blue slopes are the easiest, the red ones have ...
The sneezing is an innate reflex which consists of the very rapid expulsion of air from the lungs through the nose and mouth. It is a defense reflex that clears the airways from foreign bodies such as dust and allergens. When we hold it, however, the air that would normally be expelled from the nose can accumulate causing damage. In ...
IBM Simon THE’IBM Simonintroduced to the world in November 1992 at Comdex in Las Vegas and launched on the market in 1994 distributed by BellSouth, is universally regarded the first smartphone in historyeven though this term, “smartphone”, was coined only a few years later (in 1997 to be exact) from Ericsson with his CR 88 (Penelope). Simon will represent a ...
There Chinese writing traditional stands out for its style vertical writingin columns from top to bottom. This practice, which may appear unusual for those accustomed to horizontal writing, has its roots in history, culture and the materials used by the Chinese over the centuries. In short, its invention is attributed to a legendary Chinese minister, such Cang Jiealthough it probably ...
You’re watching Beautiful Volcanoes Don’t miss out on more content from Geopop The volcanic eruptions are complex natural phenomena that consist of escape of molten rock and gas from the earth’s surface. We usually talk about “magma” if the molten rock is inside the earth’s crust and is mixed with gases; it is called “lava” when this is expelled to ...