Turn a malfunctioning device off and on again it is the suggestion that all of us have given or received at least once in our lives. But have you ever wondered why it works so often to solve various operating problems? The answer must be sought in the complexity of the functioning of electronic devices and their intrinsic limits. Every ...
Did you know that in Italy we have a super champion Of windsurfing? Well yes: it’s called Matteo Iachino (Savona, 22 September 1989), he is 35 years old and has won two PWA world championships in the Slalom Windsurfing category in 2016 And 2023as well as another world title, and various European and Italian championships. But not only that. Matteo ...
Artistic representation. Monday November 25, 2024 at hours 5.43pm Italians the Earth will lose its “mini-moon”, an asteroid called 2024 PT5discovered on August 7, 2024 at a distance of 568,000 km from Earth, which on September 29 was temporarily “captured” by Earth’s gravity, becoming a sort of large “second moon” between 8 and 19 metres and distant currently 3.7 million ...
What if we told you that the true color of salmon it is not orange? In a certain sense, when the salmon is born it is not orange, but the truth is that it becomes orange very soon, through life‘diet. The color of salmon meat depends in fact on the intake of a carotenoid called astaxanthinthe same pigment that gives ...
The November 19, 2024a thousand days after the start of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Moscow has revised its own nuclear war doctrinebroadening the circumstances in which it could resort touse of atomic weapons. At the same time, the President Putin launched a warning to the Westwith particular reference to the United States, warning them not to intensify their ...
The saying “It’s raining, thieving government!” mocks the tendency to blame the government for anything bad that happens. The hypotheses on the origin of this saying, attested for the first time in 1861 in a cartoon by the caricaturist Casimiro Tejaare different: it could just be a satirical expression, but the history of this saying probably dates back to Middle ...
Detail of the keyboard of an Apple iBook with the keys manually rearranged in the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard layout. Credit: Michael Bunsen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. There Dvorak simplified keyboardconceived in 1936 by Professor August Dvorak (from which the layout takes its name), was designed to offer a more efficient alternative to the QWERTY layoutpatented in 1864 from American ...
The Buzz of Taos – or, in English, “The Taos Hum” – is an alleged low-frequency and very persistent noise perceived especially at night by some inhabitants and visitors of the city of Taos, in New Mexico (USA). Some say that it recalls the sound of a train in the distance or a truck with its diesel engine idling, but ...
THE Sumerians they were a sedentary population of the ancient world, lived in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) over the millennia IV-III BC and based on agriculture. They were organized in city-state and introduced the first “modern” state administrations. The Sumerians were one of the first urban civilizations and were flourishing, so much so that they invented or perfected such enormous inventions ...
The vinyl record market it is constantly growing and for this reason more and more young people are approaching this world. But how are records produced on an industrial level? And why is their surface covered with tiny “V”-shaped grooves? We answer all the main questions about the world of vinyl starting from how they work. How does a vinyl ...