Italiano
The sound of the word “induction”
If there was one thing Michael Faraday couldn't stand, this was cacophony.
The unpleasant feeling one gets from hearing awkward-soun...
25
Jan
Virdex News
24
Jan
Early Masterchef
When there was no Masterchef or any other reality show concerning food, a high-educated author and sophisticated philosopher had a very...
22
Jan
King Lasagna
Francis II of Bourbon was the last Monarch of the "Kingdom of the Two Siciles", the Reign located in the South of Italy, whose army and...
21
Jan
Drinking out loud
Not long ago, two researchers of the University of Bretagne/Sud (France) published a research paper showing the results of their experi...
20
Jan
The Pending Coffee
Did you know 10th of december is the "Caffé sospeso" International day?
Unless if you're not from that part of the world, it's unlikel...
18
Dec
The Spaghetti Tree
On April Fool's Day 1957, the British BBC aired a fake documentary, set in Ticino (an Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland), showing ...
15
Dec
Schiller’s inspiration
Friedrich Schiller was an amazing man of culture of the German Enlightenment age.
His intellectual production was huge, consistent a...
04
Dec
Borgia’s tagliatelle
Among all the characters of the Italian Renaissance, no one has been subject of so many rumours like Lucrezia Borgia.
Illegitimate d...
03
Dec
Spaghetti is not food for fighters
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was the founder of futurism, an artistic and political movement born in the years between the world wars in I...
20
Nov
The Baker’s look
Bakery in France has always been crucial.
So crucial that in May 1569, King Charles IX signed an ordinance compelling bakers to be "...
