Even today in many Italian municipalities it is possible to find old tobacco shop signs which, below the large “T”, bear the inscription “Salts and Tobaccos“. But why do we talk about salt in a tobacconist’s? Simple: in the past, tobacconists sold, in addition to tobacco products, other types of products subject to state monopoly such as stamps, postcards and, ...
Credit: Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine This morning, August 26, 2024, a Ukrainian kamikaze drone crashed into the tallest skyscraper (38 floors) in the city of Sarov, Russia, in the residential complex Volga Skycausing at least 4 injuredincluding a woman in serious condition. A similar raid also took place in the city of Angelsin the same region of Sarov a ...
Pavel Durov. Credits: Tech Crunch Pavel Durovthe thirty-nine-year-old French-Russian founder of the Russian social networking platforms VK and the instant messaging platform Telegramwas arrested by French authorities on Saturday, August 24, at Paris Le Bourget airport. Durov is accused of being an accomplice in numerous illegal activities (child pornography and illegal pornography, scams, drug trafficking) that have been taking place ...
In the warmer months we find ourselves driving more and more often with the windows closed and the air conditioning “on full blast”, sheltered from the torrid temperatures of the season. It can happen, however, that we feel unpleasant smells of damp or stale. These signals should not be underestimated: in the ventilation system of our car they can in ...
The Swiss Army Knife It is one of the most iconic objects of our neighbors across the Alps: corkscrews, blades, screwdrivers, scissors, pliers and much more enclosed in a small pocket tool. It is an essential gadget for many enthusiasts of do-it-yourself and hiking, and even the swiss army has been using it as equipment for its soldiers for over ...
Credit: NASA NASA has unanimously decided not to allow astronauts to return to Earth Butch Wilmore And Sunita Williamsstuck in the International Space Station since June due to technical problems with the capsule Starliner of Beoing who had already shown up during the outward journey, with the capsule itself. The decision was made to security reasons in order to avoid ...
Why the men develop the nipples if from an evolutionary point of view they are of no use to them? In womenin fact, the nipple is essential for breastfeedbut in men apparently it’s no useThe presence of this anatomical feature in male individuals can be explained by going back to the embryonic development of human beings and to mechanisms of ...
The Frontier supercomputer in the USA. Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The world of supercomputer It is one of the keys to the advancement of scientific research and this is also why it is in constant evolutionwith machines that constantly challenge the limits of computation and performance and end up in the rankings of ...
The Bhopal plant, one year after the accident. Credit: Bhopal Medical Appeal (Martin Stott), via Wikimedia Commons The accident occurred during the night between 2 and 3 December 1984 in Bhopala town in central India which already at that time had almost 1 million inhabitants, is probably the worst industrial disaster in historyThe main cause of the accident was the ...
It may have happened to you too, maybe when you were children, repeat a word over and over again only to realize that he had lost the meaning. Now, there are reasons why this happens. The phenomenon whereby a word repeated several times in a row seems to lose its meaning is known as semantic saturation. This curious psychological effect ...