Ecology

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Why weren’t women allowed to act in the theater for centuries? And when did they start?

The relationship between women and theatre it hasn’t been simple at all, in history. Kept away from acting and writingwomen have been silent spectators for centuries until their progressive integration onto the scene. Only with the Renaissance in Italy did women begin to take the stage, even if they were still surrounded by prejudices, while in England it was necessary ...

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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, what happened to the plane that disappeared into thin air ten years ago?

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. Credits: Paul Rowbotham Can a plane really disappear into thin air? The history of flight MH370 of Malaysia Airlines is unfortunately an example of this. The aircraft, a Boeing 777-200ER departed from Kuala Lampur and headed to Beijing, disappeared from tracking systems on Saturday 8 March 2014and although more than 10 years have passed, it has ...

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What do the Geneva Conventions say about humanitarian law?

The Geneva Conventions of August 12th 1949 were born with the aim of protect the wounded, the sick, the prisoners of war and the population civilian involved in a armed conflictsafeguarding human dignity and avoiding the use of violent, inhuman and degrading practices. I am fourto which they are added two Protocols additions of 1977 and a of 2005. Together ...

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2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia, reconstruction of the earthquake that caused 4300 victims

The September 28, 2018 at 5.02pm local time a violent earthquake occurred magnitude 7.5 it fell upon Sulawesione of the large Sunda islands, in the western sector of the Malay archipelago, in Indonesiacausing violent tsunamis and a disaster of exceptional proportions. 4340 people died, mainly due to the collapses of buildings and infrastructures triggered by the earthquake, as well as ...

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Who was Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and founder of the prize that bears his name

Alfred Nobel (pronounced “Nobèl”), born in Sweden In the 1833 and died in Italy in 1896it was a chemical and a entrepreneur very successful, inventor of dynamitephilanthropist and creator of Nobel Prizes. Working on the improvement of nitroglycerin, in 1867 he patented a new explosive, the dynamitedestined for widespread distribution. He was attracted though numerous criticismsbecause his invention was also ...

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Why are the notification dots on app icons red?

THE notification dots (also called “notification badges”) present in the upper right part of the app icons to indicate the presence and quantity of notifications not displayed they are red for a very simple reason: they attract attention immediately and effectively. Red is one of the colors that most impress the human eye and has a long history of being ...

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Akhenaten, the heretical pharaoh erased from history after his death through “damnatio memoriae”

Of all the pharaohs who reigned overAncient Egypt during the thousand-year history of Egyptian civilization, one of the least known was Akhenaten (1351-1334/1333 BC), of XVIII dynasty. A particular choice in religious matter implemented in the last years of his reign earned him the nickname of “heretic pharaoh” and caused, after his death, an operation of damnatio memoriae: the pharaoh ...

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Why don’t we remember dreams?

We often wake up with a fleeting sensation: we just had a dream, but the details quickly dissolve. Why does this happen? According to neuroscience, forget your dreams it is a natural process linked to the functioning of the brain during sleep. The key to the mystery lies inactivity of some brain areas and in the mechanisms of memorywhich go ...

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The largest hospital in the world is located in China and has 10 thousand beds

THE’largest hospital in the world it is that ofZhengzhou Universityin the Chinese province of Henan, which has the beauty of 13 buildings with inside beyond 10 thousand beds (data as of 2022), i.e. approximately 8 times more compared to the AOU Umberto I Polyclinic of Rome (sometimes considered the largest hospital in Europe). This enormous hospital facility serves more than ...

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The “living” skin grown in the laboratory that makes robots more human: the scientists’ project

Credit: Takeuchi et al. CC–BY–ND, go BBC Science Focus. “Living skin” And “robot” they are terms which, in addition to coexisting very well in the plot of a potential dystopian film, could one day revolutionize the robotics sector, in this case what is called bio-hybrid robotics. A group of scientists from the University of Tokyo, in fact, is “cultivating” actual ...