What exactly is the “chapter” of the famous Italian expression “have no say in the matter”? The saying indicates theabsence of any authority and relevance in a discussion or when it’s time to make a decision. Its origins date back to Middle Agesand are linked to the monastic practices of the time. In the Middle Ages the “chapter” was the ...
The industry of the cotton is one of the chain more ancient in history and today constitutes a multimfaccen business whose induced in the year 2020 guaranteed the sustenance to Ben 1 billion peopleincluded 100 million small farmers owners of small plots of land. In the shade of these numbers, however, other less known but equally important aspects are hidden, ...
There neuroaesthetics is the branch of neuroscience, born in 1994 with an article in the magazine Brain of the neurobiologist Semir Zeki and the artist Mathew Lambwhich studies the brain mechanisms underlyingaestheticsthe discipline that investigates what makes something “beautiful” and how we respond to beauty. Because, for example, let’s try an intense emotion in front of a work of art ...
When you browse the Internet, each website you visit has a unique address called “domain name”. It’s one text string that identifies a specific server and makes it accessible to users without having to remember complex numerical addresses (so-called IP addresses). For example, “geopop.it” is a second-level domain name that allows you to easily reach our online magazine without having ...
Etna, CataniaJanuary 26, 2025 After Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei and Stromboli the Geopop crew is engaged in these days in the filming of the documentary on Italian volcanoes in the Catania and Etna area. As soon as he arrived at the Citelli refuge, where he was supposed to turn other scenes of the documentary, the team was able to attend a ...
Remembrance Day commemorates the Holocaust, that is, the massacre of six million Jews and several million other people, perpetrated by Nazi Germany and its allies during the Second World War. The term Holocaust can be understood in two different ways: for some authors it refers only to the extermination of the Jewish people (with this meaning the term Holocaust), for ...
It will have happened to you at least once to open an app on the smartphone and suddenly find yourself with a crash: the app ends for no apparent reason, leaving you in front of the initial screen. It is a common situation, which affects both Android smartphones and iPhones indiscriminately. Because the apps crash and how to solve The ...
In the history ofart of the twentieth century There have been several interesting cases of works of art exchanged for common objectswho were brought home or even thrown, exchanged for garbage. This happened also in large museums and during important events. At the 1968 Venice Biennale, for example, a famous “door” of Marcel Duchamp (who opened and closed simultaneously): a ...
Use a good one password manager (or password manager), or all those IT tools designed to generate, save and manage passwords in a safe and practical way, is a method for protecting your IT security. Using them not only means raising the bar for the security of your accounts, but also making it easier to access the increasingly numerous online ...
The pain it is a defense mechanism implemented by our body to protect our body from possible damage. In fact, it is activated following specific nervous stimuli (thermal, physical or inflammatory) which are collected and promptly reach our brain through the spinal cord, which is located inside our spine. This mechanism is shared with many other animal species, ha deep ...