Category Archives: curiosity

Feeling an inexplicable urge to grab your pass, check next flight/train schedule and leave for a new adventure? It’s your DRD4-R7 gene, there is nothing you can do about it but follow your genetic star. According to recent research, the modification of the gene DRD4, the R7 modification, may explain the inner force to travel, […]

Sometimes my native land seems a book written in a foreigner language. An ancient door, uncannily carved, with a lock to which I don’t own the key. Here more than elsewhere, you need to be patient to find what you are looking for: a wonderful and desert beach, a village without overbuilding, an unknown taste […]

Travel in an eco-friendly way means to think about a trip as the amount of many little things. The quality of each one makes the difference: the type of means of transport, food, air quality, landscape harmony… And a good night’s sleep obviously! Therefore we propose this experiment: when you’ll choose where to go on […]

The 20th of March is the Spring equinox: swallows will return, a mysterious sensation of excitement will fill every living creature and, as the legend goes, the demon Rahu will once again eat the Sun which will fall back out from his mouth just a few hours later. And the arrival of the Spring coincides […]

Ammappa l’Italia is the name of a new project created by Marco S Perfido. The name is a pun on the term map and the idea is essentially to map the Italian territory. What’s new about that? You may ask, the first maps of this area date back to centuries ago, B.C. And you’d be right: […]

VenTo: from Venice to Turin by bike Italy will finally have one long bike trail featuring state of the art security, thanks to VenTo. The bike path runs for 679 km and connects Venice and Turin, crossing Milan via the picturesque path of the Navigli, the area of canals designed by Leonardo da Vinci in […]

3, 2, 1…0! The winter solstice is here and that means that temperatures will drop dramatically for the next three months. Sunday 21st December, 11.03 pm This is when the Sun will reach the highest point along its ecliptic journey in the sky. And though we take it for granted, let’s just remember the Sun […]

Due to the position of our planet, this is the day when we have the fewest daylight hours in the whole year, but it’s also the sign that the days will slowly start getting longer, almost unnoticed at first. Nordic countries are used to “welcoming back” the light and it’s not unusual to go to […]

Since 400 years the Bald Ibis is extinct in throughout the wilds of Europe, and even the few natural colonies in the Middle East and in North Africa are struggling to proliferate, at the risk of extinction. Fortunately, however, the partnership between WWF and Waldrappteam, an Austrian association that deals with Ibis breeded in captivity, […]

In modern society important techniques and ideas to reduce every day wasting have become increasingly important, in fact the consumer lifestyle, that is common among most of the world’s population, brings us to produce a lot more of waste than is not really necessary. Just think about the world production of waste, which is, per […]