Why Venezuela is rich in oil but extracts little: geology and history to understand current events
Donald Trump’s White House has made no secret of the fact that the main objective of the recent attack on ...
Who really is the Befana: the true story of the Italian tradition on the night of January 6th
The Befana comes at night with her shoes all broken… Every year, on the night between January 5th and 6th, ...
What is GhostPairing and how it can endanger your WhatsApp account
A group of researchers from the cybersecurity company Gen Digital has identified a sophisticated new social engineering technique that has ...
Almost all of us make mistakes when using “rather than”: how it is used and what it means
In recent years we have increasingly heard the expression “rather than” be used with a disjunctive value, replacing “or” or ...
The story of “Eddie the Eagle”: how to finish last at the Olympics and change the rules of the Games
“Eddie the Eagle”, aka Michael David Edwards he is the Englishman who defied gravity, short-sightedness and common sense to realize ...
What is the black box in the car really for? Spoiler: not just to discourage theft
The black box in the car serves first of all to extrapolate from driving into a sequence of objective, measurable ...
What is a cameo and how is this jewel born in ancient Egypt
THE cameos they are jewels – in some cases real artistic artefacts – created throughengraving of a shell or layered ...
How smart traffic lights work, the traffic solution: their benefits
Smart traffic lights are devices capable of adapting to traffic in real time, reducing congestion, limiting emissions and making daily ...
There is an “armored” version of the Sicilian flag, but it belongs to the Isle of Man
The trinacria is perhaps the symbol of Sicily par excellence, but what not everyone knows is that this figure does ...
Did a fourth Wise Man really exist? The forgotten legend of Artabanus
For all of us, the traditional Magi are three: Gaspar, Balthasar and Melchior. But there is also the legend of ...
