When we think about the rivers it is really difficult to visualize a perfectly straight stream cutting across a plain from one side to the other. On the contrary, what our brain will probably figure is a sinuous watercourse with wide curves that repeat one after the other, calls anse or meandersrecalling the image of a large snake. Sometimes, then, ...
THE’oil it is a liquid hydrophobic with high viscositywhich can have different origins (animal, vegetable, mineral, “modified”) and is used for numerous uses. The oldest oil is the olive onewhich has existed since prehistoric times. THE’olive constitutes, together with the vine and the wheat, one of the elements of “Mediterranean trinity”: that is, it is one of the most important ...
Carrots are good for your eyesight: this is the legend that is passed down from generation to generation as absolute truth. As often happens, however, behind these beliefs there is actually no scientific basis and, indeed, in this specific case we know for sure that it is a “marketing gimmick“. During the Second World War, in fact, the English government ...
“One drop of blood to test them all.” No, perhaps Tolkien’s masterpiece didn’t read like that. Yet this is what Elizabeth Holmes and her “revolutionary” company Theranos (founded by Holmes when he was 19) set out to do: analyze more than 200 molecules from a single drop of blood taken from the fingertip. This technique actually already existed and is ...
THE’ISEE (Equivalent Economic Situation Indicator) is one instrument used to evaluate the economic condition of a family unit (even composed of a single individual). It is calculated by INPS considering income, movable and real estate assets, composition of the family unit and other factors. It serves to make theaccess to social benefits and benefits. Let’s go into the detail of ...
ChatGPTOpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot, is an almost daily tool for many of us. And like all tools it has specific strengths and specific limitations. We use it to do homework, write emails or translate texts, but often we use improperly. We trust his answers without verifying them or we give him commands that are too vague, being disappointed when the result ...
In the 1954 the world famous writer Ernest Hemingway (55 years old at the time) and his fourth wife Mary Welsh they survived two plane crashes occurred within a few days of each other in Ugandathe first of which was on January 23, 1954, in an unfortunate coincidence due to a combination of problems technicians And human errors. Following the ...
A researcher at the Deep Carbon Lab in Greenland. Credit: Jacopo Pasotti We know that organisms not only populate the Earth’s surface, but also the soil. What is difficult to imagine is that life could even go so far over 10 km deep underground. Yet there is evidence of the existence of microorganisms even at these depths: how is this ...
A persistent ringing in the ear and no train arriving: it’s thetinnitusor tinnitus. This is a condition that affects a large portion of the population, but despite being so common, its origin is not knownalthough the most recent theories propose that it arises from interference in the nervous pathways and the transmission of sounds between the ear and the brain. ...
There Budget Law it is an act with which every year Parliament authorizes the Government to withdraw and use the public resources (public money) in its administrative activity. In other words, every year, the Government prepares a bill to be approved in Parliament, where it establishes how they will be distributed the sums available and to determine the fiscal policies ...