The persimmons seeds, scientifically known as Diospyros kaki, are little seeds of a few cm length but in their inside they keep a very interesting secret. Despite it is hard nowadays to…
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182 km (113 miles) divide the city of Bristol and Marlborough, in Southern England. It is a distance that, nowadays, can be covered in a short time by car or train. In…
How many, while strolling amongst the trails of cemeteries, stopping by with the gaze from one tombstone to the other, have been captured by recurring dates and coincidence of numbers? Born on…
Who knows what Felix Hoffmann must have thought on that 21st of August 1897 when he came up with the acetylation of morphine. A few days before, on the 10th of August,…
In 2018 in Padua, Italy, it has been inaugurated the new installation at the Museum Giovanni Battista Morgagni for their section about Pathological Anatomy. The museum, dedicated to the doctor considered as…
It is hard to imagine that the machines in this collection of photographs that have been thought, designed and realised in the Victorian Era as equipment for the exercise of the body;…
Cal Orcko is a paleontologic site in Bolivia, located in a quarry wall near the city of Sucre, in Chuquisaca. This place represents the best spot in the world for dinosaur tracks…
When we talk about IQ there is a tendency to misunderstand the concept behind the number itself. The IQ is often linked to the genetic intelligence of a human being, but in…
The HIV virus, isolated by the researchers in 1980, has a rather long story compared to what it was believed beforehand. The doctors identified the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the first…
If you found yourself underneath the crowns of an Eucalyptus forest, a Sitka spruce or a Larix Kaempferi, you would notice immediately the irregular gaps that show up beyond the higher leaves.…