Yellow In antiquity, it was thought that jaundice – a disease that makes the patient’s skin yellow –it had something to do with bile, a secretion produced by the liver that tastes bitter and is also that color. Physicians of…
(DC Films/Warner Bros/Playback) To control people and get confessions they would never naturally give. According to the mythology of the DC comics, the accessory is unbreakable, has infinite elasticity and is strong enough to hold Hercules. The curious thing is…
The espresso machine has a system that forces a jet of hot water, at high pressure, to pass through a compact mass of very fine coffee powder. The key word there is “pressure”. The big difference between espresso coffee and…
Launching a rocket means turning on a super-powerful bonfire, capable of propelling it into space until it reaches a predetermined altitude and, once there, putting a satellite or a research probe into orbit. The trip is not that long: the…
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No. According to experts, this is just another popular belief. “The worst that can happen is a feeling of drowsiness, since during digestion the blood flow is concentrated in the stomach”, says ophthalmologist Emílio de Haro Muñoz, from Unifesp. This…
Mona Lisa There are many hypotheses and no certainty about who would have been the real owner of that famous and enigmatic half smile – if she really existed. The most widespread version holds that a wealthy citizen of Florence,…
Because it is as if they were two different penalties: the nominal one, at the time of conviction, which takes into account every detail of the crime(s) committed, and the unified penalty, which “merges” the fulfillment of all these punishments.…
Strong emotions – for example, a fright – cause the adrenal glands (located on top of the kidneys) to release adrenaline. This substance enters the bloodstream and prepares the organism to face the situation – in the heart, specifically, it…
ILLUSTRATES Icarus Yuji Over the past 100 years, more than 4,500 books and articles have claimed that William Shakespeare, the Englishman from Stratford-upon-Avon who lived between 1564 and 1616, was not the author of works attributed to him. See some…