One of the most recognizable sounds in the history of rock, that of the Red Special guitar by Brian May of the Queendoes not come from a very expensive instrument. It comes out of a guitar that the guitarist himself is home built in the 1960s, as a boy, together with his father Harold. And, surprise, the credit doesn’t even ...
Latin returns to middle schools and, having said that, it seems that from this year all Italian students will have to start declining again rose, rosae between school desks; but things are different. With the new ones National indications for the curriculumstarting from the school year 2026/2027 lower secondary schools can in fact introduce the Latin for language educationabbreviated LELin ...
The Mo.SE in Venice. Credit: MOSE Venice The Mo.SE (Electromechanical Experimental Module) represents thecurrent coastal defense line of Venice against rising sea levels and extreme weather events. Since a possible relocation of the population would not represent a viable option, the system mobile gates is currently the main one solution For protect the city from the risk of flooding. While ...
If you find yourself near a large flowering bush at dusk, you may spot a small figure hovering stationary in mid-air near the flowers, then quickly darting away. It’s there Galian Sphinx (Macroglossum stellatarum) a moth of the Sphingidae family also present in Italy and which is also called Falena hummingbird for its extraordinary resemblance to these birds. At first ...
There is a new trend that is progressively conquering the feeds of our social networks and smartphones: the “microdrama” or “short drama”, those short narrative contents, in episodes of approximately 60-120 seconds, which many define soap operas of the TikTok era – even if the target goes well beyond Gen Z. Also called “verticals” due to their 9:16 format intended ...
Image generated for illustrative purposes only with AI. THE’artificial intelligence it is increasingly used to produce summaries and reports of complex content. The advantage is obvious. In just a few seconds you can obtain a summary of information that would take much longer to examine. But what if the result contains a wrong detail? This is the question from which ...
Xiaozhai Tiankeng sinkhole, China, via Wikimedia Commons Among the many global records that characterize the territory of People’s Republic of China could not miss that of deepest sinkhole on the planet: in the municipality of Chongqingin the south-west of China, one of the largest is opening karst depressions known to date, lo Xiaozhai Tiankeng. We are talking about an enormous ...
We continually use i names to identify people, so much so that we rarely ask why they have one. Yet the name can influence our lives – influencing the perceptions of others and our development – and giving a name is a practice present, in different forms, in all societies, known to the human sciences. What changes are the rules: ...
Milan, Velasca Tower. Credit: MarkusMark via WikiMedia Commons The Brutalism it is one of the easiest architectural currents to recognize there is: this is because brutalist buildings expose in plain sight the materials they are made of, mostly concrete (hence the name brutalism, from French brut concreteraw concrete), with exposed systems. Developed after the Second World War in England, it ...
When we are at a restaurant, we should order the usual flatwhat we already know is good, or order something new risking it disappointing us? This is the “restaurant problem”solved at the end of the Seventies by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, who derived a formula to establish when it is appropriate continue to experiment and when is best ...