by Alexandra Witze from Nature 522, 418 (25 June 2015) doi:10.1038/522418a Step aside, Armageddon and Deep Impact: two films are in competition to be this generation’s seminal asteroid movie. Both […]
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From physics to revolution and back
by Lui Lam from Science 5 June 2015: Vol. 348 no. 6239 p. 1170 doi: 10.1126/science.348.6239.1170 As a boy, I was not interested in science; I was interested in girls. […]
Business culture and dishonesty in the banking industry
by Alain Cohn, Ernst Fehr, Michel André Maréchal from Nature 516, 86–89 (04 December 2014) doi:10.1038/nature13977 Trust in others’ honesty is a key component of the long-term performance of firms, […]
Donald Duck’s 80th birthday: a brief analysis of Pedrocchi’s stories
Donald Duck makes his debut on the 9th June, 1934 in the short film The wise little hen with Peter Pig as his first shoulder. Directed by Wilfred Jackson and […]
Doing the math in Berlin
by Kai Kupferschmidt, Gretchen Vogel, from Science 23 May 2014: Vol. 344 no. 6186 pp. 791-792; doi: 10.1126/science.344.6186.791 When Johanna Wanka was a mathematician in communist East Germany, any foray […]
Plastic bubbles help refloat capsized ship
When a freighter carrying 5,000 sheep capsized at the docks in Kuwait harbor in the Persian Gulf and threatened to contaminate a water-purification plant, an idea from a Walt Disney […]
Mickey’s Inferno
Mickey’s Inferno (L’inferno di Topolino) was the second Italian story to be published on Topolino (#7-12): it was the first Italian Great Parody and the first Disney story featuring credits […]
Cell: volume 153, issue 1
The cover: The kind of food an organism consumes has a broad reaching impact on its development, behavior, and lifespan. In this issue, two papers, MacNeil et al. (pp. 240–252) […]
Photon self-identity problem
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#towelday in #italy
In Parma there's an annual Towel Day gathering of fans of Douglas Adams. Details and RSVP on Facebook. In Bellaria (Rimini), Towel Day will be observed at Sticcon, the Star […]
First day of summer by Takashi Murakami
Roger Hargreaves: 16 google doodle!
Roger Hargreaves (9 may 1935 – 11 september 1988) See the full gallery on Posterous
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