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A STRANGE OR USEFUL AI?

  Hi all! Recently we can hear a lot of things about AI… but what actually is and what was originally made for? Artificial Intelligence was born in 1956, and the base goals to reach are: to simulate the human's though to solve complex and difficult problems to help humans with practical needs to stimulate human’s creativity That means that scientists were thinking about a machine that can have the same abilities as humans to help science and knowledge. Obviously those were useful reasons to carry on the come of this powerful machine. Lately, in a blink of an eye AI has reached all of the things that we use. It started with specific applications, sometimes even not free, to end in our browser as a help to find quick information. By the way, some of those programs can make and edit an entire video for us, they can make our presentations and even let us study! In fact, guys are using AI to make summaries of the pages that they have to study, to make it explain some chapters and even f...

To the moon and back: The Artemis II mission

  immagine: https://www.ilpost.it/2026/04/07/foto-artemis-2-sorvolo-lunare/ A few days ago, a mission began that will go down in history. Human beings have always been curious, curious to understand and to answer some of their questions, but above all to understand what lies outside of our home, our planet Earth. Thanks to technological avant garde and the importance we are increasingly giving to aerospace development, it was possible to design and carry out a mission that led people to become those who have traveled the furthest possible distance from Earth. There are four people who traveled more than 1,030,000 kilometers away from Earth, performing a loop around the far side of the moon. Reid Wiseman (Commander), Victor Glover (Pilot), Christina Koch (Mission Specialist), and Jeremy Hansen (Mission Specialist) are their names, which will be written in history books. The mission began on April 1, 2026, and lasted 10 days aboard the Space Launch System (SLS), one of the larges...

Leo Fulcro on the rope

  Why you should listen to the new Leo Fulcro’s EP     About a month ago Leo Fulcro released his latest EP “Boe sulla Fune” (Boe on the rope), but why should you all listen to it? If you will be able to spare some time with me and with Leo Fulcro’s music I’ll answer your question.  But firstly, you’re may asking who Leo Fulcro is. Leo Fulcro is a rapper whose first song, “Tourmalet” dates back to 2020. Then, in 2021, he released his first EP, “Salmoni” (Salmons), followed by his first album “Il Mondo Che Cambia” (The World That Changes), and other EP, such as “Boy on earth” ( a personal favourite ) and “Il cuore un po’ più grande” (The Heart a bit bigger). Leo Fulcro’s “alter ego” is Leonardo Maltese, who’s an extremely talented actor. His first role was in Gianni Amelio’s movie “Il signore delle formiche”, where he played Ettore Tagliaferri as co-star. Then he played in “Rapito”, by Marco Bellocchio,the role of Edgardo Mortara, in “L’abbaglio” by Roberto An...

WHY ARE TEENS ALWAYS SO TIRED? And why is someone else doing it all?

 I bet you’ve been told you were “just too lazy” at least once this week, but is laziness really the reason behind teens’ constant exhaustion? From Monday to Friday we wake up too early, which is far from ideal for adolescents. Studies show that our brains stay more active at night due to a delayed release of melatonin and a shift in our circadian rhythm, resulting in our bodies keeping us awake until late. So when we get to school in the morning, both our minds and bodies struggle to concentrate and keep up with classes. The moment we realize we need a break, the guilt kicks in and leads to performing below our actual abilities and, in worse cases, even more mental fatigue from overthinking. This overthinking often feeds into the now very common “fear of missing out” (FOMO). Mixed with our natural sleep cycle and daily responsibilities, it steals the last hours we have left to rest, or at least makes that rest way less restorative, keeping our brains alert “just in case” something...

Can we live 48 hours without our phones? I’ll tell you about my experience!

  Be honest: when was the last time you went 10 minutes without checking your phone? No notifications, no scrolling, no phantom vibrations in your pocket? Exactly. We live in an age where our smartphones are basically our third hands. They wake us up in the morning, show us what to wear (thanks to weather app), feed us news, distract us when we’re bored, and connect us to everyone—literally—24/7. But here’s the question: what happens when we disconnect? Can we actually survive 48 hours without our phones? I tried and it wasn’t easy.  Day 1: The Void The first few hours were weirdly intense. I kept reaching for a phone that wasn’t there. Every silent moment felt uncomfortable. No “just-checking-something” while waiting in line. It’s like I had forgotten how to simply be. My brain kept whispering, What if someone needs you? What if something important happens? But spoiler again: nothing happened. The world didn’t burn. My friends didn’t forget I existed. Life moved on—and so did...

Giacomo and Emily : my loves at first sight

  About one year ago I fell in love during a literature   lesson. In fact, my former literature teacher introduced me this man. He asked me to read one of his poems to the class. I read it and I felt understood: finally somebody else said that Sunday isn’t a happy day! After lunch I read other poems written by this author. The more poems I read the more I felt understood. But unfortunately, in that literature book there were only a few poems by this poet, so I ran to a bookshop and I bought his   book of poems. At the end of the day I asked myself :”How have I lived all this time without this?”. About one month ago I was reading a journal and, while I was browsing its pages, I found an article about this woman. I read it and, at the end of it, I felt curious. So I went to a bookshop and asked for a book of poems   written by this poet . Once at home I started reading it. The more poems I read the more I wanted to read. At the end of the day I declared “I profound...

HOW THE AFTERNOON TEA WAS BORN

Tea time is a tradition of England and other Commonwealth countries. This afternoon event, which can take place between half past three and five o'clock, is certainly one of the most peculiar features of  Anglo-Saxon culture and has rather recent origins. Although, in fact, there had already been antecedents, the real afternoon tea was invented in the forties of the XIX century by Anne Mary Stanhope, Duchess of Bedford, who was a close friend of Queen Victoria, as well as being one of her ladies-in-waiting. The Duchess, like other members of the upper classes of the United Kingdom, was enormously affected by the long period of time that separated lunch, at noon, from dinner, which was consumed around seven. To fill the sense of emptiness, she decided to have tea brought to her room by her servants in the late afternoon with butter, bread and a cake. It was born a real afternoon ritual that soon involved the family and friends of the noblewoman, including Queen Victoria herself who ...

Beyond civilisation: The loneliness of Point Nemo

  Have you ever felt lonely? Loneliness is a human feeling; everybody has experienced it at least once in his/her life. Whether you are far from home and miss your family or when you are in your room, you may feel as if everybody is too far away. Those situations are understandable, but there’s one place on Earth where you would feel lonelier than ever before. It’s Point Nemo, the most remote place on Earth. It got its name partly from the Disney cartoon fish but primarily from Latin, where nemo means “no one”—a very fitting term because no one is actually there. Hrvoje Lukatela, a Croatian engineer who has worked in many different fields and projects (such as determining the qibla, the exact direction for praying to the Kaaba in Mecca), has proven to be a genius in his work. Through some intricate calculations, he found its exact position: 48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W South Pacific Ocean Point Nemo is a marine desert. It lies outside any state’s jurisdiction and lacks the nutrients needed...

ENGLISH SOCIAL SEASON

  The English social season was, and still is nowadays, a social tradition for the upper class of the UK. It began during the XVII century and it reached its peak in the XIX century. In that era, the English upper class was ruled by the landed aristocracy who took the opportunity of the social season to leave their country estates and move to the city. The season usually started in March and ended towards the end of June. The event that most characterized the social season of past centuries was the presentation of the debutantes to the royal court; The debutantes were young women close to marriage and daughters of members of the aristocracy and, later, also of wealthy bourgeoisie. The season was the perfect opportunity to arrange marriages between members of the social elite through sumptuous balls organized in the London nobles' mansions . The presentation of debutantes at court went into decline during the period of the First World War and was later abolished in 1958 by Queen...

Break a leg: the curious history behind good luck

 Why would anyone wish you a broken leg before a big performance? During the late 16th and early 17th centuries, theatres were one of the most popular forms of entertainment in England; everybody wanted to spend their time in playhouses such as “the Globe”, where Shakespeare’s works were performed in front of everyone. Unlike today’s polite and quiet audiences, Elizabethan spectators were deeply expressive and if they loved a scene they would cheer, clap and sometimes even throw coins onto the stage. But, if they were moved to strong emotions whether admiration, fury, sadness or a feeling of revenge, they might cry, shout and most of all spit! Actors of the time were very passionate with their role and were fully immersed in the scene provoking deep and true emotions from the public. In particularly intense moments, when a performance was especially captivating, the actors might find themselves slipping on the wooden stage because of the spits of the people, sometimes falling hard ...