Credit: Photo2023, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Made between the 1962 and the 1975, the so-called “Sails of Scampia“, in Naples, are a complex of buildings for residential construction and public utility services, with an architectural and structural conformation that geometrically recalls that of a sail, from which they take their name. The design idea, which aimed at maximizing ...
Credit: Alef The flying carsalways an icon of vehicles of the future in science fiction films, are slowly becoming reality. With technological advances in recent years, prototype vehicles capable of vertical take-off and landing are attracting the attention of governments and companies around the world. These vehicles (and the companies that are developing them) promise to revolutionize urban transportation by ...
Banknote image credits: Nicholas Gemini The CFA franc originated as currency of the French colonial territories in Africabut it is actually currently made up of two distinct coinseven if absolutely interchangeablerespectively called “West African CFA franc” (in French: franc Communauté Financière Africaine) and “Central African CFA franc” (in French: franc Coopération Financière en Central Afrique), used as official currencies by ...
Creeperconsidering the first example of malwarewas developed in 1971 not with malicious intent, but as experiment to test the potential of self-replicating programsIt was developed by Bob Thomasengineer of the BBN Technologiesone of the companies he created and developed ARPANETthe computer network from which the Internet originated in 1983. To cancel out the effects of Creeper, in 1972 a Reaperconsidered ...
Can a plant survive if it has not been watered for more than 50 years? Evidently yes, as evidenced by the garden in a bottle made in 1960 by the 80-year-old British David Latimerthat the last time the US president saw the watering can was Richard Nixon, way back in 1972. This garden in a bottle – which is an ...
Lately on the web many users claim that the pizza both thefood of happinesswith the aggravating circumstance of “science says so”. The connection between pizza and happiness, as you can read in those articles, is the serotoninwhich is found in abundance in the dough and in the mozzarella, in the form of its precursor, the tryptophan. It is also said ...
With a length of 458.45 meters and a gross capacity of 564,763 tonsthe oil tanker Seawise Giant – also known as Mount, Happy Giant, years Viking And Knock Nevis – was longest ship achieved in history, as also confirmed by the Guinness World Records, as well as that of the largest deadweight. This vessel was made in Japan and used ...
The Feng Shui It is an ancient Chinese Taoist practice that promises to improve the well-being of the inhabitants of an environment, by changing the arrangement of furniture elements. For example, a practice that would benefit our psycho-physical balance is sleep with your head facing north. Despite there is no scientific evidence in favor of the effects of Feng Shui, ...
If your messages of email are routinely ignored by certain contacts, they are likely to end up in their “Junk Mail” folder. This phenomenon, commonly known as spam (a term that refers to unsolicited messages, calls, or emails, often promotional), can happen for a variety of reasons. Your emails may end up in spam because your contacts may have blocked ...
There thanatopraxisfrom the Greek “thanatos” (death) and “praxis” (practice), is a set of aesthetic treatments and cures post-mortem used in Funerary field to preserve the bodies, delaying the decomposition process of the bodies of the deceased. This practice, usually far from the spotlight, has recently come to prominence thanks to a podcast by the Argentine singer Oriana Sabatiniwife of the ...