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Giorgio Parisi, the essential in complexity
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Giorgio Parisi, the essential in complexity

Giorgio Graffino2022-01-26T13:55:26+01:0026 January 2022|Curiosity|

Inside the quick antigenic swab
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Inside the quick antigenic swab

Marco Rocca2022-01-24T23:18:18+01:0024 January 2022|Medicine and Research|

What does not kill you, it does not strengthen you.
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What does not kill you, it does not strengthen you.

Irene Feliciotti2022-01-24T12:09:47+01:0021 January 2022|Curiosity|

Depression and walks in the woods
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Depression and walks in the woods

Irene Feliciotti2022-01-21T16:21:16+01:0021 January 2022|Medicine and Research|

Mario Capecchi, Mario Capecchi
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Mario Capecchi, Mario Capecchi

Alice Mosconi2022-01-21T16:44:09+01:0020 January 2022|Curiosity|

Just look up! An X-ray view to discover new stars: Riccardo Giacconi
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Just look up! An X-ray view to discover new stars: Riccardo Giacconi

Stefano Manfredini2022-01-21T16:48:24+01:006 January 2022|Curiosity|

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Giorgio Graffino? But how

Chi ormai non ha fatto un tampone rapido? Ma come funzionano esattamente?
Con oro e "panini di anticorpi". Non siamo impazziti, dentro ai semplici test che stanno aiutando a monitorare i contagi c'è una tecnologia geniale!
Lo spieghiamo meglio nel nostro web magazine ⏩ LINK IN BIO!!!

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Giorgio Graffino. The 15

Un’esplosione pari ad una bomba nucleare. The 15 Gennaio scorso il vulcano Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai ha eruttato lanciando una torre di ceneri e detriti fino a 20 km nell’atmosfera (secondo alcuni fino a 39 km) e causando un raro tsunami vulcanico. Grazie agli studi di Shane Cronin, vulcanologo di Auckland, è stato possibile osservare che l’arcipelago pur non essendo noto per l’attività vulcanica,Giorgio Graffinoe 2 eruzioni che si sono susseguite a circa mille anni di distanza ed hanno fornito possibili informazioni per il futuro di questa zona. La forza esplosiva è stata incrementata dal gas che risalendo insieme al magma si è espanso nel serbatoio magmatico al diminuire della pressione. Furthermore, siccome parte del vulcano era sommersa, l’interazione con l’acqua dell’oceano ha sviluppato del vapore, aumentando maggiormente la forza esplosiva. Ora il serbatoio è sprofondato ancora più in basso ed i vulcanologi hanno sviluppato 3 possibili scenari: nel caso peggiore, se del magma riprende velocemente il posto di quello che è stato proiettato all’esterno il 15/01, si troverà all’interno di una struttura estremamente fragile, e con ogni probabilità vi saranno altre esplosioni che possono a loro volta sviluppare nuovi tsunami. Unfortunately, nonostante la popolazione locale sia profondamente provata da questo evento (sia per la contaminazione delle risorse di acqua potabile, i danni all’agricoltura e l'esplosione in sé) è estremamente difficile capire il destino dell’arcipelago principalmente a causa dell’assenza di sismografi in zona.

#pillolediminerva #noidiminerva #divulgazionescientifica #scienza #Tonga #volcano #tsunami #volcanology

Testo: @ romarika1989
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Mario Capecchi

Nel mezzo dell’epidemia e dell’infodemia che ruolo può coprire la satira? 🦠
Come si possono trasmettere, attraverso l’animazione e anche l’irriverenza, concetti complessi come il funzionamento e l’iter di approvazione di un vaccino? 💉
Per rispondere a queste e altre domande, ci collegheremo mercoledì 26 January at 21 con i Mario Capecchiook forward to seeing you live on the FB page and the youtube channel of Minerva Scientific Dissemination Association 📺 with the possibility to ask questions live 🙋🏻‍♂️
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📯📯 NEW YEAR, NEW ASSOCIATIONS 📯📯 AND

Tilapia: a fish belonging to the family of c

Tilapia: a fish belonging to the cichlid family, easily available in the supermarket with… a superpower! In Brazil, tilapia is very commonly consumed in local cuisine and often offal and skin are thrown away. However, a few years ago the doctors at the São Paulo hospital started using tilapia skin (disinfected and deprived of odors) to treat serious burns of both infants and adults and animals. The skin of this fish has collagen, resistance to infections and humidity similar to that of humans. Furthermore, using tilapia skin instead of gauze, you go to avoid the need for changes (often painful) and then 10 days (depending on the level of the burn) you can simply “peel off” the fish skin leaving room for the patient's new skin.

#pillolediminerva #noidiminerva #scientific disclosure #science #innovation #Brazil #medicaltools

Text: @ romarika1989
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The 2022 of Minerva starts again in an ATOMIC way 📣 C.

The 2022 of Minerva starts again in an ATOMIC way 📣

With @prometeo_faenza
we organized an evening to talk about nuclear energy with friends from @lafisicachenontiaspetti .

Siete curiosi di farvi un'idea/bombardare di domande gli ospiti sull'argomento?
Questa è l'occasione giusta 😉.

Come and visit us in Faenza on 15 January at 20:30, se siete troppo distanti sarà possibile seguire l'evento anche in diretta streaming sulla pagina FB di Prometeo - Arci Faenza.

Link dell'evento con tutti i dettagli
https://www.facebook.com/events/281169057380453/?ref=newsfeed

Let's start the new year with a pill ... del bu

Let's start the new year with a pill ... a good mood! That is, a first estimate of the effects that the great green wall of Africa can have on the local and world climate!
First of all; what the great green wall consists of? This ambitious project consists in covering a line of vegetation with vegetation 8000 km in order to protect the lands south of the Sahara from its expansion. Based on this project, In the 2030 ben 100 millions of hectares will be covered with trees, but how is this going to change the situation?
More trees mean more humidity, going to change the intensity of the monsoons blowing south and in the past the changes in the monsoons (caused by changes in the Earth's orbit) they produced the green Sahara. In particular, the darker surface of the tree-lined area can absorb more heat and that, combined with less dust in the air due to the absorption of vegetation, causes an increase in humidity and heat that goes to fuel stronger monsoons.
Based on the simulations carried out, it appears that the green wall will support increased rainfall in neighboring areas and possible changes in atmospheric currents such as El Niño.

#pillolediminerva #noidiminerva #scientific disclosure #science #climatechange #GreatGreenWall #Africaconservation #Sahara #geoengineering

Text: @ romarika1989
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E voi avete visto "Don't look up?" In these days

E voi avete visto "Don't look up?"

In questi giorni potreste vedere nelle bacheche i riferimenti a "Don't look up", recently released film about a couple of astronomers who, discovered a comet on a collision course with Earth, it clashes with the surreal superficiality of politics, of the media and the general population to recognize, and subsequently manage the problem.

History, directed by AdamMcKay (regista de "la grande scommessa"), takes up the scenarios of Idiocracy (la stupidità e l'ignoranza a tutti i livelli della società, l'interesse sul breve termine superiore a quello sul medio lungo, l'incomunicabilità..) with a decidedly more noble cast (Leonardo Dicaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Marylin Streep, Timothée Chalamet.) e una prospettiva più sull'immediato futuro (with clear references to climate change or the pandemic) and with an important focus on the theme of polarization (tanto che nel film nascono i gruppi "guardate su" e "don't look up").

Although the story itself collects conflicting opinions (in turn polarizing the spectators) offers an interesting food for thought: the polarization of opinions and the effects of a tribalism that can lead to the rejection of reality (or at least filter it in an important way according to the narrative) and to cancel (as forces of opposite sign) precautionary actions (when a risk arises) or mitigatrici (when the problem is manifested).
Always connected to closing in one's opinion bubbles, the progressive loss of communication with others.

His Minerva, and in the scientific field in general, sono stati trattati temi su cui c'è stata molta divisione, often induced and radicalized by the promoters of the respective theses e, in our own small way, abbiamo sempre cercato di non contribuire all'estremizzazione del dialogo quanto di riportarlo ad un livello più sereno cercando di riportare le conoscenze più oggettive e assodate.

It may be the right way?
Abbiamo ancora tempo per invertire la rotta o scivoleremo verso l'incomunicabilità chiusi nelle nostre tribù d'appartenenza?
What do you think?

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Giorgio Parisi, the essential in complexity

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14 April 2014 @ 11:00 - 17:00

Meeting in the schools in Pozzuoli (NA)

13 May 2014

What is EBW? – Events in Bologna

10 June 2014 @ 10:00 - 12:00

The revolution of communication for vaccinations

10 February 2015 @ 8:00 - 17:00

Vaccines, between fears and reality – Meeting in Bologna

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