The South African wine industry ranks as the eighth largest wine producer in the world and the sixth largest exporter, contributing approximately 3.9% of the world’s wine production in 2023. It was also the main reason for our visit, as wine is my friend‘s line of work. South Africa currently has about 87,848 hectares covered […]
Second post in the South African notes, following a bittersweet focus on its history (remember? 2.4 million people living in slums), and this time I promise it’ll get less grim. Maybe. And it will have penguins. 2. Nature and Wildlife South Africa hosts one of the world’s six floral kingdoms, the others being the Holarctic, […]
Yesterday, we saw 12 video games that teach you how to code, but what if you’re dealing with people who need a motivational boost with a foundational concept like math? Well, look no more. Here’s a selection of 8+1 games that might do the trick. 1. DragonBox DragonBox is an award-winning series of educational math […]
Born in 1598, Giovanni Riccioli was a Jesuit Italian astronomer who liked to throw stuff down from towers (we can’t say he experimented with gravity: in the Western world, we’ll have to wait for Newton in 1684). Among his researches, he introduced the scheme for naming lunar geography that we still use today, a system […]
What makes a bridge wobble when it’s not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym class leaping to Snap’s 1990 hit I’ve Got The Power? The answer is maths. Or, to be precise, what happens when maths goes wrong in the real […]
Ogni lunedì un libro per iniziare la settimana. La settimana scorsa ho consigliato un libro di storia: questa settimana tocca a un libro di geometria. E, di nuovo, uno dei libri più esilaranti che io abbia letto negli ultimi anni. Leonard Mlodinow,Euclid’s Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace Buona parte di […]
San Diego, 08.07.2019. Esri UC One of the main issues you hear about teaching BIM, especially to high school and university students that might still have some neuroplasticity about them, is how to get them to think computationally. The first things I learned, during my first day of attendance here at the Education Summit at […]
My stay in Los Angeles was brief but fantastic. I had the privilege of being showed around by a local guide (and what a guide!) so that’s the good news. The bad news is that I don’t take lots of pictures when I’m around with others, so I might not remember everything I saw. I […]
I don’t mind travelling alone. It provides me with a chance to focus and I find it particularly beneficial if I have to figure out shit. Which I do. This summer, hence, I took advantage of some business proposals and I basically went hiking. Only with less mountains. And more oysters. A lot more oysters. I […]
If you are into space travels and want to have a themed week-end, London might just have your thing. It certainly did for us. Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age A temporary exhibition at London’s Science Museum, in Exhibition Lane right next to that glorious institution that is V&A, Cosmonauts brings together memorabilia from the Russian […]