After more than a week alone at home, with incipient bronchitis, and thriving on dubious pseudofood, I am back in my office. Somehow, I am not convinced it is a good idea. Highlights of the latest forced homestaying: - Getting a 1 p.m. - 4 a.m. circadiam rythm - Understanding that kebab-laced focaccia is not …
Why did they win?
Why did insects win? The question, to me, is not peregrine. Arthropoda include a lot of moderately to robustly successful terrestrial groups: Arachnida and the classes below subphylum Myriapoda (millipedes, centipedes and siblings) among all others. Yet, imagine a world without millipedes: would you really notice? Imagine a world without arachnids: there would be no …
A call to whistleblowers in geophysics: make Enzo Boschi irrelevant
This blog/site is still very much a thing in progress ; yet I can’t stay silent on what I’ve just read on La Repubblica. For non-Italian speakers: Apparently, prof. Enzo Boschi, head of the Italian Geophysics and Vulcanology Institute, is talking about “not making our data available via Web anymore, because they are used to …
I now understand conspiracy theorists
Conspiracy theorists -you know, the guys who simply refuse to admit that people walked on the Moon, or that climate is indeed changing- always escaped my comprehension. I never understood how can someone refuse to acknowledge the hard facts and refuge himself in a kind of common-sense-laden wool nest (by the way, “common sense” is …
13.04°
let’s welcome the new blog with a double funeral. on one hand francesco cossiga, ex-Italian politician and ex-President of the Republic, is dead. this will make a lot of my readers rejoice, but I am quite saddened by that. Cossiga was, above all, gifted by an absolutely zesty lucid madness, of a theatrical kind. also, …