TO Fuerteventura, in the Canary Islands, there is a very particular beach, that of Majanicho which, seeing it like this, would seem to be covered in pop corn. What has been renamed “Popcorn Beach” is located in the municipality of La Oliva, about 7 km from the town of Corralejo: some might think of it as a hoax or to ...
Each “down” (diaspora) of the dandelion is made up of the seed and its pappus made of bristles arranged like an umbrella to facilitate dispersion with the wind. As children, and sometimes even as adults, we collected the soft white “balloons” of the plant Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) and, blowing decisively, we released dozens of small feathery umbrellas into the air. ...
Image generated with AI. When it comes to absurd architectural and engineering projects, definitely the Plan Voisin wins a place of honor. Presented for the first time in 1925 on the occasion ofInternational Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paristhis project, which bears the architect’s signature Le Corbusier, it essentially involved gutting (demolishing!) a large area of Paris 240 hectares near ...
An ancient map of the city of Venice, where Venetian, a variant of the Venetian language, spread. “Do you speak Venexian?” is the question you may hear while walking through the calluses of Venice, perhaps while trying to defend a dish of cicchetti from the assault of cocài. Talking about the Venetian also implies talking about Venice and its political ...
The Safety Car at the 2009 Japanese GP, a Mercedes–Benz SL 63 AMG in action. Credit: via Wikimedia Commons There Safety Car (or peace car) is a high-performance Formula 1 safety car that enters the track whenever dangerous situations occur such as serious accidents, extreme weather conditions or when the Marshalls (track stewards) have to rearrange the barriers perhaps due ...
A Meta data center. Credit: Meta Data Center Recently an alarming piece of news began circulating on Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and various Substack authors: i Meta data centerMark Zuckerberg’s technology giant, would have completely dried up the Rio Grande in New Mexico. The accusations pointed the finger at the complex Los Lunasaccused of consuming so much water that it emptied ...
When you think of a tent, your imagination immediately runs to camping tents or, at most, picturesque circus tents. Yet, the largest tent in the world is the Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center of Astana, Kazakhstan. Supported by a monumental tall steel mast 150 meters and heavy 2,000 tonsthis colossal tensile structure covering an area of 127,000 m2 is a true ...
From the rainbow flag first flown in 1978 in San Francisco, designed by Gilbert Baker commissioned by the politician and activist Harvey Milk, until its most recent evolution, the inclusive intersex pride flagcreated by Valentino Vecchietti in 2021, the LGBTQAI+ flags they have evolved over time to embrace, include and respect all different identities, declinations and preferences in the sexual ...
While stroking newborns’ heads, you may have noticed some soft areaswhich sometimes seem to pulsate. They are the fountainsone of the most elegant solutions that evolution has ever devised for dealing with childbirth and allowing the brain to continue to grow once outside the womb. In fact, newborns are born with their skull bones still not completely mergedbut held together ...
TO Porto Sant’Elpidioin the province of Fermo (Marche) this morning at dawn, a residential building collapsed following an explosion. The requests for help on 112, sent from nearby streets, arrived shortly after 5am. For the moment the toll is one victim, a 47-year-old man, three injured and a woman missing. The causes of the explosion in via Trentino still remain ...