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MinervaPics ITA 🇮🇹: The western green lizard (

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ITA 🇮🇹: Il ramarro occidentale (Lacerta bilineata) it is a saurian whose habitat develops mainly in the territories of France, Italia e Spagna. Also in this species the color of the male changes during the breeding season, diventando più brillante e virando all'azzurro nella zona della gola.
ENG 🇬🇧: The western greeThe western green lizardatLacerta bilineataose habitat extends mainly in the territories of France, Italy and SpItaly and Spainecies the color of the male changes during the breeding season, becoming brighter and turning blue in the throat area.

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STI #VACCINES WORK OR NOT? Understanding the numbers does not

STI #VACCINES WORK OR NOT?
Understanding the numbers is not easy; but we are committed.
We took the data from the #EpicentroISS institute updated to 4 July that we report in the first image:

There are so many numbers!
But we worked on it and tried to answer some questions:
1- It is true that you contract the virus even if you are vaccinated?
Si, but here's what the numbers say:
Normalizing the table by number of unvaccinated, vaccinated with one dose or vaccinated with two doses per 100,000 inhabitants (statistician stuff) you can see from the table in the figure 2 that there is a huge difference. For example in the age group 40-59 years 26,5 subjects out of one hundred thousand unvaccinated inhabitants contract COVID-19, while in the vaccinated column, these are just 5.
2- yes but still they are positive, so where is the advantage?
To answer this, let's move on to the hospitalizations and intensive care sections (Figure 3)
In both cases the percentages increase as we move from a younger age group to an older one (and Capitan Ovvio thanks us for it); but again the size (of the population) they matter. In fact we see that always for the band 40-59 Unvaccinated ICU patients are 0,4 (subjects per 100,000 inhabitants) while for the vaccinated the number is zero, it means that among all vaccinated in that age group, no one ended up in intensive care.
3- There are dead.
Si, the dead are still there, but if we loAnd at the range of the most vulnerable subjects (60-70 e over 80) we see that there is an abysmal difference between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated population, suggesting that the vaccine offers protection not only from contagion with the virus, but especially from COVID-19 disease.
This allows not only to save more lives, but also to avoid the collapse of health systems by clogging hospitals and intensive care.
SO?
So the vaccines work against covid, preventing both contagion and hospitalizations, and today they are the only weapon we have against this pandemic, in addition to the restriction measures; but nobody wants to go back to Lockdown, right?

By @ire_nene_bio and @cafcar
#vaccines # covid_19 #statistics

It will have often happened to you in this period of seeing

It will often have happened to you in this period of seeing a desperate player shake his head in his hands after an unsuccessful shot.. This simple gesture gains depth when observed repeatedly (true Austria?) and one wonders what drives us to do it. This reaction is shared by human beings of all nationalities and is not limited to football only, demonstrating that its raison d'etre is not of a cultural nature.

As a study by the 2008, this type of gesture is innate and is also performed by blind athletes from birth. The gesture itself appears to be a legacy of a primitive form of protecting the body from an external threat. However, in a world where physical danger has taken on a secondary role, the need to feel safe comes in response to feelings of uneasiness. Placing your hands on your face simulates a hiding place, a way to disappear and therefore try to mitigate the negative feelings.

How many times has it happened to you to make this gesture after making a mistake but without there being any witnesses? Probably few. It could in fact represent a form of non-verbal communication to make others understand that one is aware of having made a mistake and in this way try to facilitate the & quot; forgiveness & quot;.

Body language experts also speculate that this involuntary action is a way to simulate external physical contact, like a motherly embrace, that helps to overcome a stressful situation.

Don't put your hands in your hair but, as you will have understood, there is no single explanation for this type of behavior but several interpretations that are probably interconnected.

Text by @ hella993

Sources: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/105/33/11655.full.pdf

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#minervapics 🇮🇹: The well-known euro bee

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🇮🇹: The well known European bee (Apis mellifera) it is the most widespread insect of the genus Apis. E' it has been spread by man in Australia and the American continent and is mainly bred for the production of honey.
E' an excEllent pollinator insect, ma non è l'unico: to the superfamily of the Apoidea belong approx 30.000 species, la maggior parte delle quali agiscono da impollinatori, così come altri insetti tipo vespe, farfalle, ladybug.

🇬🇧: The well-known European bee (Apis mellifera) iApis melliferaespread insect of the genus Apis. It has been spread by man in Australia and the American continent and is mainly bred for honey production.
It is an excellent pollinator insect, but itbut it is not the only onet 30,000 species belong to the Apoidea superfamily, mosmost of which act as pollinatorss as well as other insects such as waspsutbutterfliesadybugs.

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Text by @ manfre.ste

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As a UNESCO heritage site, the dolomites n

As a UNESCO heritage site, the dolomites can only leave those who admire them in person with their mouths open for their majesty. However, their story is even more particular and begins between the 280 e i 250 millions of years ago, at the beginning of the era called Triassic. At that time the current Dolomites were located at very different latitudes than they are now, more similar to the current tropics.
In this warm sea of which we have abundant evidence thanks to the fossils that can still be found today, sediments, especially based on calcium carbonate, they accumulated over the years, especially in the form of atolls, coral reefs and reefs. This particularity makes the Dolomites a real "fossil archipelago"! Afterwards, the rocks that make up the dolomites today underwent numerous subsidence and emergence, which combined with the intense volcanic activity and the composition of the sea water of that era, they went to contribute to the transformation of limestone into dolomite (carbonate rock, but with a magnesium atom replacing that of calcium).
Finally, the dolomites got their name only in 1791, when the French geologist
Déodat de Dolomieu discovered the characteristics of the Dolomite rock and described it to the world!

#pillolediminerva #noidiminerva #scientific disclosure #science #dolomites #UNESCO #geology #dolomia #mountainnature #summerinmontagna

Text: @ romarika1989
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#MinervaPics 🇮🇹: Bagni San Filippo is a lo

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🇮🇹: Bagni San Filippo is a town in the province of Siena, on the slopes of Mount Amiata, characterized by the presence of enormous white concretions produced by the thermal waters of the stream that flows through it, the Fosso Bianco.
Le formazioni sono di fatto costituite da carbonato di calcio precipitato, which constitutes a well-known rock: the travertine.

🇬🇧: Bagni San Filippo is a locality in the province of Siena, at the foot of Mount Amiata, famous for the presence of enormous white concretions produced by the thermal waters of the Fosso Bianco stream that flows through it.
The fThe formations are in fact made up of precipitated calcium carbonatech forms a well-known rock: travertine.

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Text by @ manfre.ste

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A small plant that despite having no ness

A small plant which, despite having no particular agronomic importance, climbs the scale of importance in the scientific community up to go into space. The plot of a botanical-themed Hollywood film? No, this is the true story of Arabidopsis thaliana! This plant belonging to the Brassicaceae family is considered the model organism for botany, due to its small size and relatively small genome (125 millions of base pairs). Precisely, its DNA was the first to be sequenced among plants in 2000. Finally, thanks to its fast life cycle (6 weeks from germination to reproduction), it is an excellent form of life to evaluate the impact of external factors on DNA.
For these reasons, Virgin Galactic also loaded onto its first manned flight 3 vials containing A. thaliana in which a preservative will be released to capture their biochemistry in 3 specific moments: before the activation of the missiles, before activating microgravity and after the end of microgravity.

#pillolediminerva #noidiminerva #scientific disclosure #science #NASA #arabidopsis #plantsinspace #VirginGalactic

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