Image generated with AI. Every Italian driver has a document in his wallet rose: the license. And he’s not the only one: it’s no coincidence that the driving license is called pink sheet. But why was this color chosen? Unlike what we might think, this choice is not random but has its roots at the beginning of the last century, ...
Portrait of a man with a mustache in the streets of Delhi, India. Credits: Jorge Royan Eye contact is often considered a universal behaviorassociated with sincerity, Attention And participation. However, social sciences show how gaze be one culturally regulated practicea, whose meaning varies depending on the historical, social and symbolic contexts. In fact, in some cultures, keeping your gaze can ...
You are full, full, you are about to burst. But to the question “would you like a sweet?” the answer tends to be “Yes!”. The elusive “stomach for dessert” really exists and is found… In brain! It is the result of a series of overlapping brain mechanisms: from satiety sensory specificationwhich makes us bored of a repeated flavor, to the ...
“Hack” your own mind through the body it is one of the most fascinating, and debated, promises of modern psychology. From the famous theory of “power pose” (power postures) up to the clinical evidence on asanasyoga positions, science has long been wondering about a fundamental question: assuming a certain physical posture can really alter our self-esteem? While on the one ...
The numerical game that is driving the web crazy There is a method to win at number game What’s driving the web crazy? Before we see it, let’s try to understand how the game works. The two “competitors” think of a number between 0 and 100without telling the other, and they have to try to guess their opponent’s number. As? ...
One of the most common problems in the kitchen is the tears that flood our eyes when we cut an onion. It’s one’s fault volatile substance call tear gas factor (syn-propantial-S-oxide): it is produced by some enzymes present in the onion cells when we damage the plant cells with the knife. The tear gas factor is indeed irritating for our ...
Image generated with AI We all know words like emir, vizier, sultan, caliph, shah and the like, but often we have no precise knowledge of their meaning and we use them in a confused way. The words in question indicate royal, political, religious and military titles of the Islamic world. Each title has a precise meaning. Some titles are used ...
Credit: Google Earth The researchers managed to develop a model that reproduces theseismicity trend at the Caldera of the Campi Flegrei in the pastregarding both earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 3 that have occurred from 1960 to today and the weaker ones that have occurred since 2005. The model is also able to provide probabilistic forecasts on the frequency ...
The bain-marie it is an indirect cooking technique that consists of immersing a container inside a larger container hot or boiling waterallowing you to heat or melt foods delicately and evenly. This ingenious method, used daily in our kitchens, bears the name of a woman who lived about two thousand years ago: Mary the Judean. It is exactly the technique ...
Image generated with AI for representational purposes. In conjunction with the launch of Artemis II heading to the Moon, NASA reiterated that the ultimate goal of the Artemis program remains the construction of bases and infrastructure on the lunar surface. However, the Moon is not just an objective of the USA: also China and Russiafor example, are interested in our ...