The Geneva Conventions of August 12th 1949 were born with the aim of protect the wounded, the sick, the prisoners of war and the population civilian involved in a armed conflictsafeguarding human dignity and avoiding the use of violent, inhuman and degrading practices. I am fourto which they are added two Protocols additions of 1977 and a of 2005. Together ...
The September 28, 2018 at 5.02pm local time a violent earthquake occurred magnitude 7.5 it fell upon Sulawesione of the large Sunda islands, in the western sector of the Malay archipelago, in Indonesiacausing violent tsunamis and a disaster of exceptional proportions. 4340 people died, mainly due to the collapses of buildings and infrastructures triggered by the earthquake, as well as ...
Alfred Nobel (pronounced “Nobèl”), born in Sweden In the 1833 and died in Italy in 1896it was a chemical and a entrepreneur very successful, inventor of dynamitephilanthropist and creator of Nobel Prizes. Working on the improvement of nitroglycerin, in 1867 he patented a new explosive, the dynamitedestined for widespread distribution. He was attracted though numerous criticismsbecause his invention was also ...
THE notification dots (also called “notification badges”) present in the upper right part of the app icons to indicate the presence and quantity of notifications not displayed they are red for a very simple reason: they attract attention immediately and effectively. Red is one of the colors that most impress the human eye and has a long history of being ...
Of all the pharaohs who reigned overAncient Egypt during the thousand-year history of Egyptian civilization, one of the least known was Akhenaten (1351-1334/1333 BC), of XVIII dynasty. A particular choice in religious matter implemented in the last years of his reign earned him the nickname of “heretic pharaoh” and caused, after his death, an operation of damnatio memoriae: the pharaoh ...
We often wake up with a fleeting sensation: we just had a dream, but the details quickly dissolve. Why does this happen? According to neuroscience, forget your dreams it is a natural process linked to the functioning of the brain during sleep. The key to the mystery lies inactivity of some brain areas and in the mechanisms of memorywhich go ...
THE’largest hospital in the world it is that ofZhengzhou Universityin the Chinese province of Henan, which has the beauty of 13 buildings with inside beyond 10 thousand beds (data as of 2022), i.e. approximately 8 times more compared to the AOU Umberto I Polyclinic of Rome (sometimes considered the largest hospital in Europe). This enormous hospital facility serves more than ...
Credit: Takeuchi et al. CC–BY–ND, go BBC Science Focus. “Living skin” And “robot” they are terms which, in addition to coexisting very well in the plot of a potential dystopian film, could one day revolutionize the robotics sector, in this case what is called bio-hybrid robotics. A group of scientists from the University of Tokyo, in fact, is “cultivating” actual ...
David Copperfieldat the registry office David Seth Kotkinis one of the illusionists most famous of all times and in 1983 he earned the record for the greatest illusion in historydoing “disappear” the Statue of Liberty live on TV in front of millions of viewers. This feat made him one of the most famous illusionists of the century, revered like a ...
The smartphones can be “transformed” into TV remote controls using two main technologies: infrared And WiFi. Although the use of infrared to send encoded signals to the TV is less and less common in modern devices, it remains a potentially viable “road” through the use of IR blaster adapters coupled with specific apps with which to issue the actual commands. ...