What homosexuality was like in ancient Greece and Rome: it didn’t exist as a concept and was linked to power
In ancient Greece and ancient Rome there was no concept of homosexuality understood as a sexual orientation like today. In ...
Why some cities in Italy are called Quarto, Quinto, Sesto: it’s because of the signs of Ancient Rome
Traveling around Italy you will certainly have come across a series of toponyms that begin with a numeral. The cases ...
Spelling errors with double consonants: you write “above all” with 4 and “grate”
Do you write above all, above all or above all? It seems trivial, but the incorrect spelling of this adverb ...
Why June 28th is the only mathematically perfect date of the year: what are perfect numbers
June 28th – which in Italy we write as 28/06 – is a mathematically perfect day. But what does it ...
Who is Andrea Kimi Antonelli, the Italian driver who is rewriting the history of Formula 1 at just 18 years old
He is the star of the moment in Formula 1, the one who is making the whole world frown: Andrea ...
What is Solo maxxing, the Gen Z trend that celebrates single life and revalues loneliness
In recent years, a constellation of practices and narratives that revolve around the idea of ”maximizing oneself” has spread, especially ...
Why we get sick just when we have to go on holiday: what is leisure sickness
There is a psychophysical condition where you get sick regularly on weekends or when you start your holidays: it’s called ...
Hacker attack on Trenitalia, passengers’ personal, travel and email data exposed: what to do
Trenitalia informed some customers that it had suffered a cyber attack which allowed unidentified external parties to gain unauthorized access ...
5 words borrowed from French that we have “Italianized”
It often happens that we use loanwords from French in the Italian language without thinking too much. Many of these ...
The end of anonymity, how DNA testing changed gamete donation: the laws and the risks
Gamete donation is one of the greatest achievements of reproductive medicine, a practice that for decades has allowed thousands of ...
