Credit: Harry Quan via Unsplash THE colors they are a visual perception, that is, a “sensory translation” in our brain of a physical quantity which is the wavelength of light within a certain frequency band (the so-called “visible light”). But how many colors are there? The answer is very complex, because we must remember that, first of allcolors technically don’t ...
Wikipedia, as we know, it is afree encyclopedia and therefore it can sporadically happen that some user writes inside it some false information. Among all the hoaxes that have ever circulated on this platform, however, one is particularly noteworthy: we are talking about Jar’Edo Wensan entire page dedicated to a fake aboriginal deity which has remained online for almost ten ...
In the presence of high humidity and poor ventilation, dogs suffer more than us humans, especially in particularly closed, overheated and poorly ventilated environments, such as a car stopped under the sun. This happens because the dogs they have a system of thermoregulation different from ours compared to humans: in other words, they maintain their internal temperature almost constant by ...
Credits: SpaceX Almost everything is ready for the launch of the mission Polaris Dawn Of SpaceXwhere the will be reached maximum distance from Earth since the Apollo missions to the Moon and will be carried out first private extravehicular activity in history, scheduled for tomorrow Friday August 30, 2024 from Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which had already ...
According to Legambiente’s latest Beach Report 2024, the 46% of Italian sandy coasts is subject to phenomena of coastal erosionin addition to risks linked to climate change which are increasingly reducing the portion of accessible coastline. Added to this is the problem of beach concessions: according to the Legambiente report, the 33% of the Italian coasts are subject to concessionswith ...
The arrest of Pavel Durovfounder of Telegramwhich occurred on August 24, 2024 at Paris-Le Bourget airport, has put the spotlight back on the messaging app, accused by various governments of being an important “meeting place” for the shadiest figures on the Web, including scammers, terrorists, producers and consumers of child pornography. According to the prosecution, the reason why these criminals ...
Credit: MODIS imagery from NASA’s Aqua Satellite In the early hours of today, Thursday, August 29, 2024, the typhoon shanshan hit southwestern Japan in the prefecture of Kagoshimaon the island of Kyushu (already hit by two violent earthquakes at the beginning of August) with gusts of wind up to 185 km/htorrential rains up to 80 centimeters in the last 48 ...
The missions of peacekeeping They are missions organized by international organizations, such as the United Nations (UN), or regional, like the European Union or the African Union, which consist of political and military actions to facilitate a peace process and guarantee international peace and security following a ceasefire agreement between two parties involved. Peacekeeping missions, the meaning of which is ...
THE messages subliminals They are pieces of information – written, images, sounds or other – that are sent in such a way that the recipient is not consciously aware of it, but still perceptible by the brain and assimilable only at an unconscious level. These signals, although apparently insignificant, can actually influence our behavior and our decisions. But how can ...
The “sacred line of Saint Michael”, which is supposed to connect the seven main places linked to the cult of the archangel. Credit: Enryonthecloud With the expression “sacred line of St. Michael“, or sometimes “Saint Michael’s sword”, refers to a legend that is quite widespread in countries with a predominantly Christian religion, but without concrete scientific or historical basesaccording to ...