THE children born out of wedlock they are becoming more and more a new normality: today they are almost one in twoespecially among mothers under 25 and among Italian couples. But the phenomenon is not uniform across Italy: the geographical area also makes a difference, and Sardinia is the region with the highest percentages. The most recent Istat data tell ...
The collaboration between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan is in the political, economic, religious-doctrinal and military fields. There Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have maintained a for decades collaborative relationshipwhich saw the two countries getting ever closer on a political, economic, religious-doctrinal and, above all, military level. This closeness was undoubtedly favored by the common adherence ...
Who hasn’t happened to see, especially in the mountains, a road sign with a percentage which indicates the slope of the road? But what exactly does that number mean to us? How is it calculated, and to what angle does a 100% slope correspond? Let’s see the mathematical answers to these questions and what slope the steepest road and funicular ...
Generated with AI When we think of air travel we often imagine long and interminable intercontinental routes, and it can hardly occur to us that there are scheduled flights so short that they last just a handful of minutes. We are talking about routes that connect places that are difficult to reach in other ways, almost always between two nearby ...
Waking up in the morning, rested and ready to face a new day, often means dealing with those annoying “scabs” on the corners of the eyes. “Boogers”, cips, mucus or ocular secretions: everyone calls them in their own way, but not everyone knows that, however unsightly and annoying, they are essential for the visual health. While we sleep, in fact, ...
The One World Trade Center (also called Freedom Tower) is one of the most symbolic buildings in New York: inaugurated in 2014, with its 541 meters (417 meters without the spire), it holds the record as the tallest building in New York and the sixth tallest building in the world. Project features The One World Trade Center it is, not ...
There are moments in life when we are no longer what we were, but we are not yet what we will become. It is in these suspended, uncertain and sometimes disorienting spaces that the liminality: one passage condition which, from an anthropological concept, has now become a key to understanding the sense of confusion widespread in contemporary societiesespecially among the ...
The differences between duomo, cathedral and basilica. Image generated with AI. Although they are often used synonymously, cathedral, duomo and basilica are not the same thing at all: but could you explain what the differences are between these three buildings? According to Treccani, basilica, duomo and cathedral are three examples of churches (from Greek ecclesia“assembly”), or thebuilding in which the ...
You get up from the sofa, take a few steps towards the kitchen, go through the door and… total emptiness: “why did I come here?“. It happens to everyone, it is inevitable, and science has discovered that it is precisely the fault brings that you went through. Our brain uses precise mechanisms to organize memories, and forgetting what we were ...
The Strait of Hormuz it is not only crucial for fossil fuel trading: about a third of world trade of fertilizers by sea passes through this route: we are talking about about a million tons per month of raw materials essential for modern agriculture: ammonia, urea, phosphates and sulphur. These products are transported almost exclusively by sea: in fact, there ...