Ecology

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How the Roman dam that saved a village from flooding in Spain is made and how it works

A video is currently making the rounds showing an ancient Roman dam from the 1st century AD protecting the village of Valencia from the tragic flood that devastated Valencia. Almonacid de la Cuba in the province of Aragon in Spain, not far from the city of Zaragoza. Here the bad weather produced by the arrival of a DANA (i.e. a ...

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Why the Peanut squirrel has become the symbol of the Republicans in the 2024 US elections

Credit: Mark Longo (Peanut The Squirrel) and Gage Skidmore (Donald Trump) Last November 1st a squirrel named Peanut and a raccoon named Fred were seized and euthanized by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), following anonymous complaints claiming that the two animals – belonging to Mark Longowhich made Peanut a “social media star” with an Instagram profile of ...

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Why do bats sleep upside down? They are safe and spend less energy

Sleeping is a pleasure, but, in a certain sense, it is also a duty for all living beings they need sleep to rest the brain, reorganize memories and process experiences. And to do this we need a safe and quiet place. While most mammals prefer a den and a comfortable horizontal surface, bats sleep vertically and even upside downraising the ...

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How to protect your home automation from hackers: 5 practical tips

The home automationthat is, those that have all those technologies aimed at interconnecting home appliances to automate a whole series of operations. There home automation It undoubtedly represents a rather simple way of making your home comfortable thanks to the so-called IoT (Internet of Things or Internet of Things), or that set of technologies that allow the Internet to be ...

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30 years ago the flood that devastated Piedmont: what happened, why and the alarm system today

Asti submerged by water during the flood of 5–6 November 1994. Credit: Frukko Andrea Marchisio, CC BY–SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 30 years have passed since the disastrous flood that 5 e The November 6, 1994 hit the provinces of Cuneo, Asti and Alessandria. Here the Tanaro river and its tributaries flooded due to particularly intense rainfall (up to 200 ...

Procrastinazione neuroscienze

Why do we put off things to do and how to avoid it? The neuroscience of procrastination

Procrastination is the habit of voluntarily postponing action, decisions and activities to an indefinite time in the future, with the knowledge that this postponement could lead to negative consequences. It is not a disease, but it is a bad habit and a sabotage personal experience that we have all experienced, because postponing increases the stress load and risks compromising the ...

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How to understand if your computer is being spied on by hackers: 7 signs to keep an eye on

For understand if your computer is being spied on by hackers it is important to know which aspects to pay attention to when using it, so as to grasp precious clues, which otherwise could be overlooked or totally ignored and which, instead, can lead to taking action before it is too late. Cyber ​​attacks don’t always manifest themselves clearly: criminals ...

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The Diomede islands between Russia and the USA and between past and future

Russia and the United States are distant from each other only 3.8 km. This is the width of the arm of sea that separates Great Diomedes from Little Diomedestwo small islands located in the Bering Strait straddling Asia and America. Discovered in the 18th century, the islands were divided between the two countries in 1867when the Americans purchased Alaska from ...

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The flood in Valencia wasn’t caused by cloud seeding or HAARP – here’s why

They have begun to spread on social media and on the web hoaxes and fake news on the presumed origin of the recent one Valencia floodin which a year’s rain fell in three and a half hours. A quick visit to social media is enough to read about imaginative theories linked to recent activities cloud seeding (in Italian “cloud seeding”) ...