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Year of Discovery: 1640 What Is It? Air (the atmosphere) has weight and presses down on us. Who Discovered It? Evangelista Torricelli Why Is This One of the Science Greatest? It is a simple, seemingly obvious notion: air has weight; the atmosphere presses down on us with a real force. However, humans don’t feel that [...]

The Etna volcano made another eruption Wednesday night but no one’s life was put in danger. The Italian authorities didn’t launch any warning considering that the eruption isn’t dangerous because the lava levels haven’t pass the normal standards. Also although beautiful the same authorities warn anyone to go near the eruption.

Here is the 2nd part of the most interesting pictures of 2010. -The oil platform Deepwater Horizon belonging to the British company Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Mexico Golf on April 21. (Photo: AP Photo / Gerald Herbert) -A little girl poses for her mother in front of China’s Shanghai World Expo, April 25 (Photo: [...]

The Italian director Mario Monicelli, one of the masters of Italian comedy, killed himself on Monday evening, at the age of 95, throwing himself from the window from a hospital in Rome where he was under treatment. The Italian movie star was in the hospital suffering from cancer and was receiving treatment from doctors at [...]

An Australian sculpture made this wonderful piece of art, taking as its inspiration from a Ferrari 365GTB V12 engine. Now he is selling it on eBay. All is handmade created with the statue having around 25kg. Is almost at the same scale as an original Ferrari engine and to make some difference to the original [...]

Big happiness in Italy; the big lottery jackpot was finally won by no less than 70 people. The prize was set at 177,8 million Euros. The 70 lucky winners managed to grab the big prize after no less than nine months of waiting. If we do a little math around 2,5 million Euros will go [...]

Noemi Letizia, 18, is accused of being the reason of Silvio Berlusconi’s divorce. Letizia stated that she is not the daughter of the Italian Prime Minister, even if she calls him Papi. Her family said they were in no way related to Silvio Berlusconi, even if now they are close friends, but they didn’t want [...]

One of the best chefs over at Cape Olive Garden is Jennifer Dineen. Of course, she would probably prefer us to use the title “culinary manager”. And a manager she is, as she misses no opportunity to improve and learn about the trade. Her last experience was no less than some 4.000 miles away, in [...]