Masdar City (the “source city”), in United Arab Emirates, It is one of the most ambitious projects of recent years: designed by the Archistar Norman Foster, This city on paper will be completely sustainable and thanks to a large photovoltaic plant, solar panels On the facades of the buildings, construction materials at zero impact on the environment. Great challenges await ...
The Capital accumulation plan (PAC) is a form of “intelligent savings” based on Investments in installmentsin other words a way to save money, also gaining something through the investment. They propose themselves as alternative solutions to the payment of their money in a single solution (PIC: capital investment plans) but have the same purpose. With the CAP, we undertake, in ...
There Smartphone LED torch It is a function present on practically all cell phones on the market, which can be useful in multiple daily situations, from the search for objects in dark environments to use as an emergency light signaling, to the shot of photographs in not very enlightened environments. Not everyone knows, however, that in many cases it is ...
The Friuli-Venezia Giulia It is a region with a special statute of theNorth-eastern Italy. The double name immediately identifies it as one of those regions with a complex and heterogeneous identity, whose territory is made up of historically and culturally distinct areas. The FriuliIn fact, it corresponds roughly to the territories of Pordenone, Udine and Gorizia, which occupy most of ...
The backup is one Copy of data security present on a devicewhich is kept in a safe place, so that they can restore any information that is lost. If your smartphone, tablet or computer should break, be stolen or lost or, again, to be affected by a malware (for example a ransomware), the backup could literally save you from a ...
Credit: Philip Ezze, via Wikimedia Commons In recent years, the 3D printing has made enormous progress and, if we add the prefix “bio“, we open the door to an extraordinary world: the bIostampa 3Da technology that promises to transform the future of medicine with applications into regenerative medicine, in the development of drugs and in the production of synthetic meat. ...
The Codex Gigas (also known as the “Devil’s Bible”) is the larger and heavier medieval manuscript to date known. Measure 92 centimeters of height for 50 width e 22 thick, and its overall weight is approximately 75 kilograms! The text has been thought to have been written in XIII century at the Benedictine monastery of Podlažicein Bohemia (today’s Czech Republic). ...
The fleasmall insects hematophagesfeed on blood and take refuge in humid and shaded environments, both inside and outside the buildings. Despite theirs small sizewith females 4-5 mm and smaller males long, they are equipped with an extraordinary ability: jumping incredible distances, up to 30 times their length, and in some cases even 100 times. These jumps are possible thanks to ...
When we talk about the West We mean the Western territory of the United States which during the 19th century was gradually conquered by white citizens allocated on the western coast. The “wild” characteristics of the West have aroused the fantasy of the public and since the end of the 19th century the Western genrewhich developed through theater, cinema, literature ...
Wikipedia It is one of the most famous and used online encyclopedias in the world … but what are the most used languages inside? Unlike what we might think, following theEnglish which is the master, we find the Cebuano. If you have never heard of it, don’t worry, it is actually a language that is not very common and spoken ...