Established by the United Nations in 1970, Earth Day aims to raise public awareness of environmental protection. They chose the date of April 22nd of each year, i.e. one month and one day after the spring equinox, to underline the need to save the Planet’s natural resources and to give […]
Telmo Pievani in La vita inaspettata (The unexpected life), published in 2011, starts with Darwin, who he defines as the man who was the first to have the courage to «go beyond the mark»; he starts where Gould left off in concluding La vita meravigliosa (The Wonderful Life), and finally […]
European hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus L. – Photo by Andrea Blankenstijn With the arrival of spring, the days getting longer every day and the temperatures becoming increasingly milder, the Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus L.) awakens; winter sleep, which in our climates can last from November to March, has not been continuous, but […]
“When you arrive in the corner of the world,please be quiet.Stop all communication, forget time,and begin to understand this placeat the same time unknown and familiar.Some people get there by dreaming.Others when they read a book.Some find themselves playing,or when they enter a cinema.There is a corner of the world […]
It’s a warm day at the end of February, and one of the builders that are renovating some parts of the house warns: “In an hour or so we have to work on the external side of the house facing south; shall we dissemble the lamp or do you prefer […]