There Arabic writing is accomplished from right to left For religious, historical, cultural motivations but also for practical reasons. According to a widespread religious interpretation, in the Muslim world it is believed that every action must begin with right handsymbol of virtue and justice, while the left hand represents evil. This tradition does not only concern writing, but extends to ...
If a colleague speaks badly of us to the boss, what should we do? Instinctively one would feel nervous and, perhaps, reciprocate with the same weapon. But mathematics tells us that the opposite is better: in a famous one 1980 experiment based on the prisoner’s dilemma – a pillar of game theory, the branch of mathematics that seeks to rigorously ...
The ENIAC computer. Credit: TexasDex at English Wikipedia., CC BY–SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Whether you are reading this article from a PC or a smartphone, you are still using a computer. By this term, in fact, we mean «a machine that is capable of accepting and storing within it a large amount of information in a specific form, processing ...
Credit: dave_7 from Lethbridge, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The famous character Beep Beep from Warner Bros., Willy the Coyote’s arch-enemy in the Looney Tunes cartoon of the same name, who runs quickly through the desert streets to the sound of “Beep Beep”, it’s not an ostrich as many think: it is a major road runner (Geococcyx californianus). ...
The Catacombs of San Gennaroa historic place in Naples and in particular in the “difficult” Rione Sanità neighborhood, were closed until 2008. If today we can enter and visit them it is largely thanks to Don Antonio Loffredoparish priest of the Rione Sanità and founder of the social cooperative “The fish” which – among other things – restored and reopened ...
Credits: NASA/Joel Kowsky. Thursday 17 October we will witness the third of four consecutive “Superlunes” at the end of 2024, the so-called “Hunter’s Supermoon”. The latter will be there brighter than 2024making the Moon appear full for about three days, from Tuesday evening to Friday morning. The “Supermoon” is a journalistic term designed to indicate a full Moon that occurs ...
Credit: REMspace An experiment conducted last September 24th by the Californian startup REMspace would have led to first communication between human beings occurred during a lucid dream (i.e. a dream in which you are aware of being asleep). Two individuals, monitored remotely while sleeping in different homes, were able to exchange a simple message using a advanced technology that detects ...
Credit: Rashmi Bhavasar, G Santoshkumar and B Rahul Prakash, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The news is going around the world: the 32-year-old from Minnesota Phoenix Nightingale claims to have the so-called “vampire disease”for whom she cannot eat garlic because it would be fatal. It’s about the acute intermittent porphyriaa metabolic disorder that belongs to the family of rare ...
Optimus Gen 2. Credit: Tesla. A group of humanoid robots Optimus Gen 2 produced by TeslaElon Musk’s car company, showed in Los Angeles during the event Cybercab dedicated to the presentation of the new Tesla Robovan (a sort of self-driving shuttle). Musk took the opportunity to praise the capabilities of its robots, underlining how advanced they are compared to the ...
In the 1890s a a black baboon (Papio ursinus) was “hired” by the South African Railways for manage signage which regulated the train traffica position that the monkey held for 9 years. As absurd as it may seem, the story of this monkey is true and is even confirmed by an article published on Nature in 1990. But… how is ...