Social media, we know, tends to strengthen our beliefsto make us more hostile towards different opinions and to close us in information bubbles, making civil confrontation with those who think differently increasingly difficult. This dynamic, however, may not be inevitable. A study published in Science in 2025 by Stanford University shows that it is possible reduce polarization intervening from the ...
Credits: Jason.nlw. The contemporary wedding it is one of the most interesting institutions to analyze because it concentrates three dimensions that often do not coincide: legal function, social meaning and emotional investment. In the western world of 2026its normative function is in decline (fewer marriages, more cohabitations, greater instability of unions), but its ritual and symbolic function is, if possible, ...
A concert, a party, a large outdoor event: these are all situations in which, at least once in our lives, we have found ourselves faced with a chemical bath. What looks like a simple container with a colored liquid is actually a small sanitization system designed to solve a very real problem: ensuring sanitation even in absence of a real ...
The tire or the tyre? The dumpling or dumpling? Behind this doubt lies one of the most betrayed rules of the Italian language: the one that decides whether we must put the article “il” (or “un”) or “lo” (or “uno”) in front of a male name. The good news is that behind the four male articles (the for the definite, ...
The French Southern and Antarctic Lands, via Wikipedia Commons. Among the numerous overseas territoriesobtained during the long and complex colonial past, the France has a truly unique and singular one, which takes the name of French Southern and Antarctic Lands. Also known by the acronym of TAAF (Southern and French Antarctic Lands), are in reality a complex of territories far ...
Image created with AI for illustrative purposes The images of the woman asleep at the wheel while her car was driving along a Canadian highway with two children on board quickly made the rounds on the web, bringing a very widespread misunderstanding back to the center of attention: confusing driver assistance systems with true autonomous driving. Beyond the responsibilities of ...
The port of Gwadar in the Arabian Sea. The port of Gwadar, located on the coast of Arabian Seain the province of Baluchistan (Pakistan) is among the port infrastructures larger of the region. The place, a small fishing village, has in fact been transformed into a deep water port (deep-sea port) capable of accommodating ships of large tonnageserving as a ...
Golden tongues which according to the funeral rite of the Greco-Roman era were placed in the mouths of the deceased. Credit: Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism. TO Marina El-Alameinon Egypt’s northwestern Mediterranean coast, about 300 kilometers from Cairo, archaeologists have unearthed 18 graves dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, dating back to 4th century BC and 4th AD, ...
Generated with AI Linked to a long textile tradition that also goes through Genoa – city to which the term jeans is traditionally attributed, from the French Gênes – jeans have become a global icon. However, their production involves a considerable environmental impact: according to an analysis conducted by Levi Strauss & Co. on a pair of Levi’s 501, the ...
Image generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. The August 12, 2026 Europe will experience its first total solar eclipse since 2006: for just over a minute the Moon’s disk will completely cover that of the Sun, just before sunset, in a band that will cross the GreenlandtheEastern Iceland and above all the Central Spainfrom Asturias up to Valencia and ...