From 9 to 12 October the national exercise will be held at the Campi Flegrei “EXE Flegrei 2024”, the third and final exercise of the Civil Protection scheduled for this year in the area. Unlike those of April and May, which concerned the risk of bradyseism, this one concerns the volcanic risktherefore relating to the possibility of an eruption in ...
The annular solar eclipse of October 2, 2024 as seen from Easter Island. Credit: timeanddate.com Punctual as only astronomical phenomena can be, theAnnular solar eclipse gave a show yesterday October 2, 2024 in the skies of much of South America. The luckiest were the 175,000 inhabitants in band of annularity which crossed southern Chile, southern Argentina and Easter Island: in ...
The Body Mass Index (in acronym BMI and in Italian Body Mass Index), invented by Adolphe Quetelet in the 19th century, it is a system for classifying body weight, adopted by the WHO in the 20th century for more immediate identification overweight And obesity. The Index presents however significant limitations and in this regard an emblematic case is that of ...
With the deadline fast fashion refers to a rather widespread practice in the clothing world which consists in continuously producing collections of low-cost and poor-quality garments. In recent years, the appearance of large economic chains and oriented towards a younger audience has led to an acceleration in the production and number of collections available, following viral trends almost in real ...
If you are a regular user of social platforms, you will have used it countless times. What are we referring to? Al “Like” buttonObviously. Have you ever wondered how the “Like” button was born and why it has become so popular on social media? Well, you should know that the “like” was not invented by Facebookbut was first introduced on ...
You’re watching GeopolitiX Don’t miss out on more content from Geopop Who will become the new president of the United States of America? Former Republican President Donald Trump or the vice-president of the Biden administration, the Democrat Kamala Harris? What is certain is that the electionsdated Tuesday November 5 2024are actually already underway regarding postal voting ei national polls they ...
Due to not very gentle movements, the yogurt can splatter and settle on the flap of the jar that acts as a lid. But why does it stay there attacked like a stalactite? And why does it seem to be thicker (better “viscous”) than the yogurt that remains in the jar? To answer these questions we must take into consideration ...
The record fortallest uninhabited building in the world belongs to Goldin Finance 117also known as China 117 Tower and located in Tianjin, China. It is a skyscraper from 126 floors who, with his 595.5 meters in height, it is also the sixth tallest building in the world. But how is it possible that such a building has been uninhabited for ...
In the night between 1 and 2 October 2024 theIran he launched approx 180 ballistic missiles against Israelin response to Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon (which led, among many things, to the death of Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah) and thekilling of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, celebrated in Tehran on July 31st. The Iranian military operation against Israel, known by its ...
Credit: Clemzouzou69, via Wikimedia Commons Sometimes in the animal world it is possible to witness behaviors that may appear, to the untrained eye, to be totally senseless. This is the case of the so-called “death spiral”that phenomenon in which the legionary ants find themselves in fairly common circumstances a going round and round non-stop when a single file closes in ...