Ecology

Come fanno i dervisci a danzare in tondo senza sosta e a non stare male

How do Turkish dervishes dance in circles non-stop and not feel sick?

If you have ever been to Türkiye you may have seen the so-called “whirling dervishes” (in Turkish semazen), dancers in traditional clothes whose steps essentially lead them to continuously turn around, as a form of active meditation. Watching them rotate, you may have wondered how they can continue for minutes or even hours without feeling sick. Is there a possible ...

La marcia su Roma

The March on Rome in brief: how Mussolini’s Black Shirts gained power

There march on Rome it was one armed demonstrationoccurred between 27 and 30 October 1922through which the National Fascist Partyled by Benito Mussolinigained power. Fascism, despite being born only in 1919, became a mass movement in a few years thanks to the crisis in which Italy found itself after the First World War. Between 1921 and 1922 the fascist teams ...

ponte galleggiante di Shiziguan Cina

Is it possible to “drive on water”? Yes, on the Shiziguan Floating Bridge, China, Hubei

Credit: China Diary The Shiziguan floating bridgeis located in Hubei, the central-eastern province of People’s Republic of China. You will surely have seen it in some video reel on social networks, while cars pass through it, and perhaps you will have wondered whether it was true or not: well yes, it’s all true. More than a bridge, however, it is ...

imparare lingua giapponese italiano

Is learning Japanese more difficult for an Italian or a Chinese?

Learning a new language is always a challenge, but the level of difficulty can vary greatly depending on the learner’s native language. Have you ever wondered if learning Japanese is more complicated for an Italian or a Chineseconsidering aspects such as grammar, phonetics, writing systems and cultural similarities? We will analyze the structural differences between languages ​​and how these influence ...

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Tempesta Vaia, the cyclone that devastated Italy in 2018: the meteorological analysis of an extreme event

The damage of the Vaia storm in the Asiago Plateau, in Veneto. Credit: Nordavind, CC BY–SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons There Vaia storm which hit central-northern Italy between Saturday 27 October and Tuesday 30 October 2018 was undoubtedly among the most disastrous meteorological events of the last decades in our country, with very violent rains especially in the North-East, gusts ...

occhi stanchi

Tired eyes and dry eyes: the causes and what good habits can help us

It happens to us when we drive for a long time in the car, when we spend hours in front of the computer or television screen, or when we read for a long time, perhaps with little light: the sensation that our eyes are tiredwith symptoms such as itching and dryness, is very common especially since smartphones entered our lives. ...

Primo server NeXT del CERN

Do you know the history of the first web server? Here’s who invented it and how it came about

A replica of the NeXT computer used by Tim Berners–Lee in 1990 to develop and run the first Web server. Credits: Maximilien Brice/Anna Pantelia/CERN The history of first web server starts at CERN (European Council for Nuclear Research), the nuclear research center in Geneva, in 1989. At that time, the British scientist Tim Berners-Lee he was working on an idea ...