Ecology

How were the famous red and white candy canes symbol of Christmas born?

How were the famous red and white candy canes symbol of Christmas born?

THE candy canes or bwhite and red sticks to the taste of peppermint they are one of the most famous symbols of Christmas. According to the National Confectioners Association in America they are produced between Thanksgiving and Christmas over 1.7 billionwith peak sales in the second week of December. According to tradition, they were created by a music master in ...

GPT 5.2 vs Gemini 3, which of the two best meets user requests: we tried both

GPT 5.2 vs Gemini 3, which of the two best meets user requests: we tried both

Image created with AI. Which AI is better: GPT 5.2 or Gemini 3? If you have also asked yourself the problem, you are evidently following closely the most recent developments in artificial intelligence from OpenAI and Google. If we had to give you a straight answer, we would tell you that at the moment GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 meet user ...

December 21, 2025, how many °C was there today in previous years? Let's compare temperatures

December 21, 2025, how many °C was there today in previous years? Let’s compare temperatures

Many times we find ourselves wondering “But was it that cold last year?” or “But was it this hot in other years?”. These are questions that can be answered by searching through the meteorological archives, and that’s what we did: we bring you the temperatures of December 21st scheduled for Milan, Rome, Naples And Palermocompared with those of the same ...

All the damage that short videos can cause to our brain

All the damage that short videos can cause to our brain

Several scientists who have studied the effects of intense consumption of short videos on TikTokInstagram Reels, YouTube Shorts found an impact in brain areas related to concentrationto theself-controlat the memory and to theemotional balancewhich result from rapid and continuous stimulation that pushes the brain to seek immediate rewards over reflection. The short videos we watch during the scrolling influence the ...

The legendary feat of Abebe Bikila: the man who won the Olympic marathon in Rome barefoot

The legendary feat of Abebe Bikila: the man who won the Olympic marathon in Rome barefoot

Abebe Bikila wins the marathon at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games without shoes. Credit: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The September 10th of 1960during the Rome Olympics, Abebe Bikila he won a medal that will forever remain in the history of sport. Born in 1932 in Ethiopia, he began his career almost by chance. At the age of ...

Can you solve the first Italian crossword from 100 years ago? History and origin of the pastime in Italy

Can you solve the first Italian crossword from 100 years ago? History and origin of the pastime in Italy

The first modern crossword was published on December 21st 112 years agoin 1913, on Funthe Sunday supplement of New York World. The invention of crossword puzzleas they were called in the United States, can be attributed to Arthur Wynne (1871-1945), the editor of the puzzle section of the American weekly. At the time they were already widespread word squaressimpler squares ...

Gemini 3 Flash, Google's new AI model that aims for efficiency, is available

Gemini 3 Flash, Google’s new AI model that aims for efficiency, is available

Credit: Google. Gemini 3 Flash was officially released on December 17th last. Google’s new efficient AI-powered model brings the reasoning and understanding capabilities of frontier models to a version optimized for speed of response and computational efficiency. Gemini 3 Flash represents an important step, as it maintains the technological foundations of Gemini 3 Pro, but drastically reduces latency and costs, ...

Winter Solstice 2025, what happens in astronomy, when it falls and why it is the shortest day of the year

Winter Solstice 2025, what happens in astronomy, when it falls and why it is the shortest day of the year

A representation of what happens during the winter solstice. Credit: Timeanddate, via The December 21, 2025at hours 4.03pm Italians, the winter solsticewhich will officially begin the winter season in the Northern Hemisphere. Contrary to what you think, the change of season does not happen over the course of an entire day, but falls at a specific timeand does not occur ...

The first website in history “info.cern.ch”: what the World Wide Web was like 35 years ago

The first website in history “info.cern.ch”: what the World Wide Web was like 35 years ago

Tim Berners–Lee, the British scientist who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, while working at CERN in Geneva. Credit: CERN. to meet the demand for automated information sharing between scientists at universities and institutes around the world. The December 20, 1990inside the corridors of CERN in Genevain Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee turned on the “engines” of first website in historyan ...