There skimming scam is an increasingly widespread problem that can affect anyone who uses credit cards as a payment system in physical stores. This sophisticated technique, in fact, allows scammers – with a special tool called skimmer – to copy debit or credit card data and then use them fraudulently for POS payments or cash withdrawals. Imagine making a “normal” ...
Imagine that, during a dinner with friends, someone makes a bad joke and another person, to avoid embarrassment, changes the subject by saying: “Sorry, I didn’t hear well, what were we talking about?”, pretending not to have understood the joke. In this case, we could say that the person is “playing dumb“. This expression, in fact, is often used in ...
Credit: US Department of Health & Human Services: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, via Wikimedia Commons The first case of infection by the bacterium E. coli at the 2024 Paris Olympics the Belgian triathlete impressed Claire Micheladmitted to hospital on August 4. Belgium will therefore not be able to participate in the mixed team triathlon. The athlete probably contracted ...
The insects for some years they have also become part of ours diet. Since 2021, the European Union has authorized the entry in trade of well four different types of insects for a total of six authorizations (we will shortly explain how this is possible) as per regulation Novel Food. Thus, a food that is already present in the diet ...
All 20 Italian regionsfrom Piedmont to Puglia, from Lombardy to Sicily, have their own regional flag with unique characteristics: each one has its own form, colors and any coats of arms or symbols which contain precise historical meanings. In this article we enclose them all, telling them briefly origin And meaning but, first of all, we challenge you to guess ...
L’Italy It is a country rich in fresh water, especially in the Centre-North, where the melting of the Alpine glaciers constantly feeds large streams which, descending from the reliefs, give life to countless waterfalls. Below is a ranking of the 5 Highest Waterfalls in Italyordered from fifth to first, accompanied by some contextual information. Attentionhowever: waterfalls, both natural and artificial, ...
“OK” is a word we use every day to signal agreement and assent, but its origins are far from clear: there are different theoriessome well documented and others rather curiouswhich try to explain how “OK” was born and spread throughout the world. Starting from the playful abbreviation of oll correctused by Boston journalists in the 1830s, until its connection with ...
The ancient Roman city of Pompeidestroyed by the eruption of the Vesuvius of the 79 ADIt is one of archaeological sites most famous in Italy and the world. It was probably born as a foundation center italicand with the Roman conquest it became a city flourishinguntil the devastating cataclysm that destroyed it buriedThe tragedy of the eruption has allowed this ...
Walking along the beach it is easy to observe shells of clams, mussels, cockles or truffles with a small perfectly circular holeready to be threaded to create a summer necklace. One of us might rightly ask: “But who made that hole?”. We find the answer by studying the behavior of some molluscs. In fact, the authors of the “little holes” ...
Credit: Taiwan Land Development Corporation If you think that Guernica of Picasso or The Fourth Stateor by Pellizza da Volpedo are large paintings, you have not yet seen the Great Buddha of the Century (世紀大佛)made by Taiwanese painter and calligraphy expert Hung Chi Sung. The painting, which saw its title formalized by none other than Guinness World Recordit’s big 12,086.59 ...