It may have happened to you too, maybe when you were children, repeat a word over and over again only to realize that he had lost the meaning. Now, there are reasons why this happens. The phenomenon whereby a word repeated several times in a row seems to lose its meaning is known as semantic saturation. This curious psychological effect ...
The gallerie They are complex infrastructural systems that allow for overcoming orographic obstacles, on a road or railway route, in territories with a predominantly mountainous development. They are engineering works capable of literally hold up the mountains above them and prevent these from collapsing inside them, thus allowing continuity of passage along the route, limiting travel times from a given ...
Walser viper. Credit: HerrVillhelm, via Wikimedia Commons In summer there may be cases of people bitten by vipersbut it is a rather rare event. In Italy there are 5 species of vipers (common viper, adder, horned viper, Walser viper and Orsini viper). In our country, as in all of Europe, snake poisoning it does not represent an emergency, contrary to ...
It’s enough common that many of us see spots or black/grey threads before the eyeswhich become more intense if you look at a light background, such as the white wall of a room or the blue sky. By moving the eye they seem to move and floatbut there is no way to permanently remove them, not even by rubbing your ...
Leonardo da Vinci, Last Supper If we look at theLast Supper by Leonardo da Vinci – also known by the name of Cenaclepainted between 1494 and 1498 and preserved in the sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan – Jesus he doesn’t have feet. It may seem like a negligible detail, but the feet are an element of great ...
In the summer, an alternative method to get rid of mosquitoes is popular on social media, which involves burning coffee residues, because compounds with a repellent effect on mosquitoes would be formed. Let’s clarify right away that There are no studies to support this thesis and coffee does not contain insecticides. It must be said that many insects are not ...
Anyone who has ever gone to the supermarket to buy some chicken You may have noticed that there are two different types of chicken on sale, one more yellow and one white or roséBut what does the difference depend on? coloring? The answer is not at all obvious: it depends on the breed of the chicken, its health, its genetics ...
There are people with capacity cognitive extraordinary, then there are people whose life is made extraordinary by cognitive deficits which are difficult even to imagine. Remember ReminderIn Nolan’s film the protagonist wrote important information on his skin, since he was unable to remember nothing that didn’t already belong to a distant past. Nolan’s is a fictional story, written by his ...
Credit: Neuralink After the overall positive results on its first human patient, Noland Arbaugh, as already anticipated last month Neuralink has extended the testing of its BCIs (Brain-Computer Interface) to a second patient, Alexwhich has been installed in the skullLink system. The operation, conducted at the Barrow Neurological Institute, was successful and the patient was discharged the following day. Neuralink, ...
You are on the beach and – wandering around with your gaze – you happen to rest it on the lifeguard’s observation post, where some signal flagswhich serve to give swimmers essential information on the bathing safety. But apart from the red flag which is notoriously known to warn swimmers of dangerous bathing, what do the colours of the flags ...