Naples, a journey to the Vesuvius
“Thursday 22nd, about ten on the clock in the morning, the thundering noise began again; the oldest men declared, they never heard the like; and, indeed, it was very alarming: we were in expectation every morning of some dire calamity.”[1] It is not the Doomsday – it is the Vesuvius, the Neapolitan volcano, erupting […]
The massacre of Erba and Italian media
When three members of a family where stabbed to death, and so were two other people in the house, the Italian press smelled the blood and slung itself on to it. Nobody thought the massacre could have generated another horrible spectacle: Italian media giving the worst out of themselves. The coverage of a massacre was […]
Movimento Senza Terra: La storia non è finita (documentario)
L’immagine che arriva in Italia del Movimento dei lavoratori rurali Senza Terra (MST) in Brasile e` a volte filtrata da un certo romanticismo, da una certa nostalgia da parte di chi auspica in Europa un risveglio delle coscienze capace di cambiare il corso della storia; […]
ePassport: fees and security issues
Your electronic passport is not safe from the person behind you at the ticket counter. Adam Laurie, a computer programmer from Kent, has released a programme that allows anyone with the book-sized electronic reader device to steal information contained in the passports. “The program will read and display the contents of the ePassport, […]
Polonium Lethal Dose
I thought this calculation of the lethal dose of Polonium could be interesting (I did not find it anywhere, but maybe it’s just me). Today the BBC published a nice article, but does not explain how a lethal dose can be computed.
The Lifetime Cancer Mortality Risk factor[1] for 1pCi (10^-12 curie[2] one milion of milion […]
Introduzione alla matematica
Questa introduzione alla matematica e` stata scritta per le prime lezioni del corso di matematica tenuto alla scuola Florestan Fernandes (vicino San Paolo, Brasile) del Movimento dei Lavoratori Senza Terra. Era indubbiamente troppo avanzata: dei 65 studenti che avevo solo pochi potevano arrivare dopo una, due lezioni a calcolare un elevamento a potenza. E cosi` […]
Italy and Mafia
A brief analysis of the fight against the Mafia in Italy
The fight against the Mafia
A brief description of the Mafia activity. The future after Provenzano’s capture.
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This March for the Agrarian Reform is just a town in motion. Participating are six pregnant women, children breastfed, and this child who did not know if choosing the role of model…
and the one of photographer (she shot about twenty photos, this is the best):
up to the teenagers, which you can see late afternoon […]
Utopia
Uno dei problemi principale per tutti e quattro noi italiani è l’alimentazione. Non che non sia più che buona, considerando che siamo più di 10.000 e che abbiamo due pasti al giorno. Solo che mangiare ogni giorno riso e fagioli con un po; di carne inizia a creare problemi alla digestione, così con Jessica, Filippo […]
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