Ecology

Tracciato AIS affondamento Bayesian

The Bayesian Shipwreck Map: The Possible Reconstruction of the Yacht’s Last 16 Minutes

Via VesselFinder. Data source: The Italian Sea Group, Perini Navi The portal Vessel Finder has made the AIS track available (Automatic Identification System) of the Bayesian Yachtssunk on August 19th at 4.06am off Porticello (PA) due to bad weather, causing 7 victims including the British Mike Lynch And 15 survivors including the shipowner Angela BarcaresLynch’s wife. The positions, trajectory and ...

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How do America’s Cup boats “fly”? AC75 foil technology

Luna Rossa; archive image. Credit: Nieri.vittorio, CC BY–SA 4.0 The preliminary regattas of the 2024 Barcelona Yacht Club will be held from 22 to 25 August 2024. 37th America’s Cupor America’s Cupwhich will also be held in Barcelona in the months of September and October 2024. This is the most important international sailing competition, in which Italy has participated 7 ...

stato di salute batteria smartphone

How to Check Your Phone’s Battery Health

Battery life is one of the fundamental aspects for efficient use of your smartphone, regardless of whether it is Samsung, Apple or any other manufacturer. Over time, it is physiological for lithium batteries to lose part of their original capacity. For this reason, it is important monitor the health of your device’s battery to intercept possible problems in time (such ...

Rituale potlach

What is Potlatch, the Pacific-wide celebration of mutual giving?

Potlatch ritual The potlatchwidespread among the native tribes of the Pacific Northwest coast (Kwakiutl, Tlingit, Salish and others) is a traditional ceremony where generosity is rewarded with social prestige. The name potlatch derives “gift” in the Chinook language. During these events, participants compete in donating goods, creating a cycle of reciprocity and status. Marcel Mauss called it “gift economy”, proving ...

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Plane crashes near Terni’s Alvaro Leonardi airfield: two dead

Today, around 1:00 pm, a four-seater plane crashed in the Maratta area near Ternia short distance from the “Alvaro Leonardi” airstrip causing the death of the two people on board, the pilot and the passenger, two men of about 60 years old. According to initial reconstructions, the accident occurred shortly after take-off from the airstrip, where it had made a ...

curiosità morbosa

Why do we stop to watch when there is an accident? What is morbid curiosity

With morbid curiosity it refers to a particular type of curiosity that It manifests itself in situations of tragedycatastrophes or shocking events that can cause physical or emotional harm. We can observe it for example in the phenomenon of rubbernecking (stop and look at road accidents). It is something that we all experience, in different forms and degrees. In recent ...

Anfore recuperate all'Elba

Deep-sea robots discover 2,200-year-old amphorae in wreck between Elba and Pianosa

In an ancient wreck over 600 meters deep in the waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea between Elba and Pianosa the Department of Humanistic Studies of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice has discovered amphorae and other precious finds from the Roman era thanks to deep sea robots made available by the Azionemare Foundation, which had identified the wreck together with ...

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We explain the viral video about the alleged “mermaids” of Google Earth: they are forests of giant algae

Open Google Earth, enter the coordinates 54°43’04″S 71°39’03″W or 46°20’36″S 51°44’49″E and press the enter key. We are in Chilenear the Alberto de Agostini National Park or on thePossession Islandthe island of the sub-Antarctic archipelago of the Crozet Islands. Now zoom in a bit and try to answer the question: what are those ribbon-like things that seem to float on ...