Clive Wearing on piano. Credit: Jiri Rezac Clive Wearing is one of the best known neurological cases in the world: British pianist and conductor, in 1985 (at the age of 46) he was struck by aherpetic encephalitiscaused by the common herpes simplex virus, which attacked his hippocampus (the “central station” for sorting his memory), making him unable to create new ...
When it comes to serum from the truththoughts might turn to the potion Veritaserum of Harry Potter, but from Diabolik to 007 there are countless pop culture characters who have used it in their adventures, not to mention the novel Kallocaine by Karin Boye. But does it really exist? We say yes, even if it is not entirely “truthful”. Technically, ...
After a dinner in Tunisia, some retired former Italian secret service agents were hospitalized for poisoning peach seeds. For one of the agents, the ingestion of these seeds, present in a peach liqueur served at the end of the meal, proved fatal. Investigations are currently underway to understand how it was possible, but beyond the legal matter, let’s try to ...
The theater it’s full of Very strict “rules”. so as not to attract the bad luck: Woe betide Macbeth, wear the color purple, or say “good luck!” At that time how do you wish good luck to actors and actresses before a show? The traditional Italian phrase – but also French and Spanish – seems strange: you have to say ...
When it comes to bedbugswe generally refer to those green and smelly insects that frequently enter the house in autumn, attracted by the heat of the rooms and the carbon dioxide emitted by the human body. The most easily visible species in this period are the two green bugs (Nezara viridula And Palomena prasina) and the Asian bedbug (Halyomorpha halys), ...
Best wishes to you it is the Italian version of a song born in the United States, Happy Birthday to Yousung to people celebrating their birthdays. The melody was composed at the end of the nineteenth century by two American kindergarten teachersthe sisters Patty Hill (1868-1946) and Mildred Hill (1859-1916), for their kindergarten students in Louisville, Kentucky. The text, entitled ...
The desire to please and being accepted by others is deeply rooted in human nature and, from a sociological and anthropological point of view, indispensable for building our identity. There are many possible explanations for the reasons for this psychological dynamic: living with others represented one of the biggest evolutionary advantages For Homo sapiensand for the evolution of his cognition. ...
The image highlights how the pointer used on Windows is asymmetrical. Credit: MSPowerUser. The December 9, 1968during the conference organized in San FranciscoCalifornia, from ACM/IEEE (Association for Computing Machinery/Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the engineer Douglas Engelbart presented the first prototype of the mouse and the graphical user interface, usable thanks to the latter. The initial pointer – i.e. ...
These are gray days in every sense for theEmilia Romagnawhich is back in Red alert due to the floods of the rivers, and that he still has a weekend of heavy rain. Specifically, the areas in red are the mountains, hills and plains of the Bolognese area, the central plain areas (Modena, Reggio Emilia and Parma) and the Romagna basins, ...
The LOVE statue by Maurizio Cattelan with his famous middle finger. Credit: Google Arts and Culture Walking through the center of Milan, and going to the finance area of Piazza Affari (between the Cadorna and Cairoli squares), it is impossible not to notice in front of Palazzo Mezzanotte, home of the Milan Stock Exchange, a gigantic marble sculpture depicting a ...