THE Big Men and the Big Women they are not physically very large men and women, as one might think; instead they are leader of great influencetypical of some companies in the Pacific (particularly in the archipelagos of Melanesia and Micronesia), which, without possessing any formal official power, obtain prestige through their charisma and theirs generosity. Their status is in ...
The matriarchy it is an organization of society within which the women they maintain a higher degree of power compared to men in all or almost all aspects of social and political life. It’s the opposite of patriarchy (in which power is predominantly in the hands of men) e it should not be confused with the matrilineality. In matrilineal societies, ...
Between August and October an increasingly higher number of people are affected by a respiratory allergic syndrome caused by ragweed pollen (Ambrosia artemisiifolia), a non-native and weedy plant from North America. It’s one alien species invasive that it creates health problems with very severe allergic symptoms in sensitive subjects: sneezing, rhinitis, eye irritation and asthma attacks. Furthermore, the Ambrosia genus ...
A rainbow on the water surface of a swamp? It almost seems like the setting of a fairy tale, but instead it is a phenomenon that actually occurs. They are the so-called “rainbow swamps” or “iridescent swamps” with colored stripes ranging from blue, to green, to purple, up to golden yellow. The origin of this temporary phenomenon of iridescence it ...
Photo credits of the two leaders: kremlin.ru Since the African state ofEritreaformer Italian capital colony Asmarait became formally independentThe May 24, 1993was continuously governed with an iron fist from the same party, the Popular Front for Democracy and Justiceand by the same man, the now almost eighty-year-old president Isaias Afwerkitransformed over the decades from a hero of independence to an ...
The term “multitasking” comes from computer science, as a description of the processes of parallel computing computers running multiple programs at the same time. It was common, a few decades ago, to think about brain like a computerbut neuroscientific studies seem to go in the opposite direction: multitasking for cognitive tasks that involve attention could not be supported from our ...
Credit: Eviation. The world of aviation is also going through a transition phase towards electric, and battery-powered aircraft they represent one of the most interesting innovations from this point of view. In the June 2020in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, theEASA (European Union Aviation Safety Agency), or the European Union Aviation Safety Agency, has certified the Pipistrel Velis Electrothe ...
MOON. Credit: ESA/DLR. It was inaugurated in Cologne, Germany MOONone lunar simulation facility created by the European Space Agency and the German Space Agency which replicates the surface of the Moon to train astronauts for future human missions on our satellite, such as NASA’s Artemis program. The heart of LUNA consists of a vast room of 700 square meters which ...
Japanese cartoons with octagonal shape. Credit: id:takefumi, via Wikimedia Commons At some point in our lives, while we are biting into our slice of pizzawe will ask ourselves this question: “But why are we eating from a square cardboard when in reality the pizza is roundabout?”. The simple truth is that producing a square box is easier and more profitable ...
The expression “attack a button” is used to indicate when a person starts a long conversation and often boring with someone, often wasting others’ time. Anyone who strikes up a conversation is generally considered a annoyingsomeone who speaks for a long time without the interlocutor being particularly interested in what he is saying. The term can refer to useless chatter, ...