(EN) According to the Centers for Disease Control in the eighties, 15% of the USA adult population was obese, in 2007 has more than doubled… let’s have a look to their weekly diet. ————- (IT) Secondo i Centers, negli anni ’80 circa il 15% della popolazione era obesa. Nel 2007 è più che raddoppiata… sarà per la loro dieta settimanale?
The cost of art/Il costo dell’arte
(EN) GoodMagazine has posted a usefull infographic comparing the cost of the entrance fee of 20 museums in USA, with the cost to the museum per visitor and the square feets of the exhibitions. ——— (IT) GoodMagazine è pubblicato un’infografica utile per comparare il costo dell’entrata in 20 musei negli USA, con il costo che sostiene il museo per ciascun visitatore e i metri quadri dedicati alle mostre.
Olympic Medals on maps/Mappe di Medaglie Olimpiche
(EN) 29th Olympic Games started yesterday in China with a breathtaking ceremony seen by 4 billions people. If you are going to follow the games and are into medals, take a look at the interactive maps published on NYT: you can compare medals via geography and ranking. —————– (IT) La 29ma edizione dei Giochi Olimpici è iniziata ieri con una cerimonia che ha tolto il fiato a 4 miliardi di persone davanti ai teleschermi. Se vi interessano i giochi e la conta delle medaglie, il New York Times ha pubblicato due mappe interattive con cui comparare le medaglie vinte sulla base del paese e della quantità.
Is “friends with benefits” the future?/”Friends with benefits” è il futuro?
(EN) In Plato’s Symposium Aristophanes explains that humans were originally round, composed of two people joined together in a perfect sphere with four arms, four legs, and two faces. Only later, Zeus cleaved them in two to punish them for their arrogance and ambition…Love collects the halves of this original nature, and tries to make a single thing out of the two parts so as to restore our natural condition. This conception of love was taken up by medieval theologians, flourished even more in the Romanticism and arrives to 21st century. But there is a new configuration of relationships spreading among men and women of the generations born after the 70′. It’s called “Friends with benefits”: Two friends who have a sexual relationship without being emotionally involved. Typically two good friends who have casual sex without a monogomous relationship or any kind of commitment (urbandictionary). If you want to know more about it just take a look at this Benefit
read more Is “friends with benefits” the future?/”Friends with benefits” è il futuro?
Space in the city/ Spazio nella città
(EN) How much space is required to transport the same number of passengers by car, bus or bicycle? Discover it in this ad of the city of Munster dated 2001 or click on the image. ——- (IT) Quanto spazio ci vuole per trasportare lo stesso numero di passeggeri con la macchina, l’autobus o la bicicletta? Scoprilo in questo manifesto affisso nella città di Munster nel 2001.
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