The bird pecten oculi is an intraocular anatomical structure that has resisted 350 years of investigation into its function, generating something like thirty different hypotheses, without any of them being completely accepted and considered exhaustive. And the mystery continues… Image 1 gives us a schematic view of the eyeball of […]
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In fairy tales, the princess often kisses the toad who turns into a handsome prince and… “they lived happily ever after”. In reality, toads and in general all amphibians (frogs, toads and newts), do not turn into princes, but in their two lives, (the term amphibian means exactly this: “with […]
«First flourished the golden age, which without avengers/or laws, spontaneously honoured loyalty and rectitude. […] Free, untouched by the rake, unfurled/by the plow, the earth produced everything by itself/and men, satisfied with the foods born spontaneously,/gathered strawberry trees, mountain strawberries, cornelian cherries, blackberries hidden among the thorns of the brambles/and […]
I was lucky enough to meet Sarah Savioli at the Gavoi literary festival “L’Isola delle storie” which I attended with some reader friends. We didn’t know this author, she intrigued us and we went to the presentation of her latest book: “I selvatici”. I discovered that someone had written about […]
The Englishman Alexander Parkes between 1861 and 1862, while developing his studies on cellulose nitrate, isolated and patented the first semi-synthetic plastic material: Xylonite. A few years later, the American Hyatt brothers, to replace the expensive and rare ivory in the production of billiard balls, patented the celluloid formula. Bakelite, […]