Too much coffee… aroma?
Illustration by Lars Wannop (Fabrica)
What’s the first thing you do as you wake up in the morning?
Maybe it’s just because I’m Italian, but I have only one answer: coffee. Read more
Filed Under Food, History & traditions, Research
Fabulous anomalies
Illustration by Lars Wannop (Fabrica)
Life is hard.
As you grow up you gradually discover that the world is different from the one your grandfather’s tales told you about.
(Actually my grandfather used to say that there were some money under my sheets to persuade me to go to sleep).
No ant will never bring you a gift as one of your tooth falls down, and Santa Claus, fairies, wizards, speaking animals, unicorns… none of these does exist.
Maybe.
Filed Under History & traditions, Research
“Ahmed and death play” soon at school
In many parts of Yemen, children start carrying weapons and are often encouraged by their parents. Many tragedies through injuries and killing due to this irresponsible behavior led the ministry to ban carrying guns in the capitals of all governorates. There are many other organizations that have taken a role on this issue in Yemen. One of these, the Shawthab Foundation for Children, recently made a 20 minutes cartoon about children carrying firearms.
Filed Under Events, History & traditions, Human Rights
Not just flowers. Spot the difference
Illustration by Lars Wannop (Fabrica)
When I was a child (many and many years ago!) I had a bad habit… sometimes I used to steal toys from the shop next to my house.
(When they caught me I’ve been feeling ashamed for 10 years, until I moved).
I had a precise strategy: the more I steal in broad daylight, the less the owner of the shop got suspicious.
In other terms: if you are totally exposed, none will think you are doing something wrong.
So I used to be a baby-thief in daylight.
That’s what some poppies planters must have thought. Read more
Filed Under Environment, Media & Society, Modern Life
Update your health
Illustration by Lars Wannop (Fabrica)
Whenever you fall ill or you just break an arm because of a stupid accident, you receive hundreds calls by worried friends or relatives asking about your state, how it happened, and how long your recovery will take.
Ok, you cannot but be happy to see you have so many friends worried about your health, but, at the same time, to repeat the same story one hundred times can be really exhausting.
That’s why CaringBridge and CarePages exist.
Filed Under Modern Life, Research, Water, World Health
Mobile phone users follow the same power-law
Illustration by Lars Wannop (Fabrica)
We all have had a feeling that someone was tracking us at least once. All the technology around us can always reveal our movements and actions.
This kind of Big Brother is a sort of paranoia for me, because we use to believe that our lives are “special” and different from the others’ ones, and we don’t want any other to discover what we are doing.
(Even if I don’t have anything to keep hidden!)
But we are not that original, a study suggest.
Filed Under Media & Society, Modern Life, Research, Technology
Can our eyes create the world?
Take a cat and place it into a box with a sealed vial of poison and a radioactive atom.
Is it dead or alive? It depends on the state of the instable atom. We need to open the box, and to observe the situation before we decide. But since we don’t do that, the cat might be thought of as both alive and dead.
I’m not completely mad: that was the paradox hidden in 1935 Erwin Schrödinger’s mind-game.
Filed Under History & traditions, Research, Technology