In Brazil is pretty common to see stray dogs everywhere you go. The Brazilian government estimates that there are 62 million dogs in the country, with 35% living on the streets or in shelters. I live

A few weeks ago I watched a YouTube video about greenland sharks on the Real Science channel. I'd neve even heard about this kind of sharks and I was very surprised by the way of living and lifespan

Rose Island is an Italian movie (original title: L'incredibile storia dell'Isola delle Rose) released by Netflix in 2020. It tells the story of an Italian engineering, who in the late 1960's decided

In the last couple of months I've been pretty busy writing my PhD thesis, so I didn't have much time to learn any languages. I only managed to get some input through YouTube videos and the occasional

This post contains spoilers for "Oderbruch (2024)". I rarely watch trailers for movies and tv series because I absolutely hate spoilers. Trailers give away too much of the plot, they are basically a

I just started reading the book "Praise of Folly" by Erasmus and in the preface there is a piece o information that caught me by surprise: in 1508 the Dutch philosopher Erasmus of Rotterdam published

Brennero è una serie italiana che credo sia ancora in corso su TV ma che sta in anteprima su RaiPlay. Con otto episodi, la serie thriller è ambientata a sud-Tirol e mostra le indagini su una serie di

Qualche settimane fa ho visto il primo episodio di una serie italiana su RaiPlay, era un dramma/thriller con una società segreta. Cominciava con un ragazzo fotografo che fu lasciato dalla fidanzata e

Sono nato agli inizi degli anni 90, quindi i libri fisici sono stati la norma per me. Mi è sempre piaciuto l'atto di sfogliarli, l'odore della carta e guardare le foto storici e le mappe (ho sempre

Non sono mai stato molto disciplinato per imparare una lingua per volta e sempre finisco per studiare varie lingue contemporaneamente. Ho un buon livello in inglese, nonostante non l'abbia mai

Richard C. Rivaz was a British air-gunner for the RAF (Royal Air Force) in World War II, flying in Whitleys and Halifaxes (bomber planes) as a tail gunner - the guy that sits in a small turret facing

The following is a short summary of some points that I found interesting in the book "Stolen Focus". Pigeon vs painters  In 1948 Professor B. F. Skinner, an American psychologist, did an experiment

I recently started listening to the audiobook Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari. The author, a British journalist, uses a mixture of personal anecdotes and multiple citation of

Blinkist is a subscription service that provides summarized audiobooks from nonfiction books. The majority of the audiobooks are between 15 and 20 min long containing the gist of the original books

Yourteacher.ai is a website for language learning designed to simulate a online lesson with a human tutor, like those of iTalki or LanguaTalk for instance. It offers multiple languages and for each

A couple weeks ago I started studying Japanese and now I came to the realization that I probably will never reach a very high level in any of the languages that I study because I'll always start to

Sangue a Colbricon è il secondo audiolibro della serie Lettere dal Front, che seleziona lettere di soldati italiani in guerra per racontare la loro esperienza al front. In questo piccolo audiolibro

"En la oscuridad" es una novela gráfica que cuenta la historia do periodista español Antonio Pampliega, que fue secuestrado por la Al Qaeda Siria en 2015. Justo después de cruzar la frontera de

Sara is a Graphic Novel written by Garth Ennis (also creator of Preacher) with art by Steve Epting and colors by Elizabeth Breitweiser. Set after the German invasion of Russia in the Second World

Nel 2018 ho iniziato a imparare l'italiano. Dopo completare il corso B2 sul app Busuu, leggeva diversi libri (sia libri scritti per studenti di italiano che per madrelingua), guardavo diverse serie