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The Platonic justice

In the dialogue "Gorgias" the philosopher Plato (427 - 347 BC) explains with the dialectical technique that the rhetoric is the art of obtain reason through the persuasion more useful to the strong to crush the weaker with counterfeiting of all types as happen with the cosmetics instead of gymnastics, which manage to fool only the incompetent and leads to believe without knowing, since the rhetorician has no knowledge of what is the greater good and in order to obtain reason ends up to do evil, considering that doing injustice is the greatest of evils. In a discussion with Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, Socrates is able to explain that do injustice is worse than suffering and evil even higher don't pay a just punishment for the evil committed, becoming in this way to cure from the injustice (the worst of evils). The first well is to be fair that leads to the "happiness" and is preferable to suffer rather than commit injustice. [Automatic translation global English]

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 01, 2010 n°: 1160
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Music Therapy for the tinnitus

A study in a group of individuals who suffer from chronic ringing in the ears, with no other major disorders of hearing, was able to attenuate the noise by listening for a period of twelve hours per week to their favorite music changed so to remove the frequencies that cause annoying hum (the audit was conducted by comparison with other groups that had been made without the original music movement, or using normal therapy), it seems that this type of music therapy has an effect on the area of the brain responsible of the tinnitus. Others researches has shown that the volume of the headphones of portable devices is on average too high and that in the long run could cause damage to hearing, but this can also depend on the type of sound and if the listening is prolonged, however accustomed to listen at low volumes is possible still appreciate the music.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 30, 2009 n°: 1159
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Numbers and geometry in antiquity

One of the first scholars of numbers and geometry of the universe seems to have been Pythagoras that studied in youth models probably derived from oriental or Egyptian source, but later he devised a system from itself starting from the octave musical relationships and "mystical" influences such as in a vision that combines math and speculation in various fields of science and in Pythagoreanism in practice the agreement between the numbers is the basis of harmony of the cosmos, all in a synthesis of opposites and geometric figures, including the famous solid base of stars and all the celestial objects. Remarkable figure of an equilateral triangle that has influenced many philosophies and also found in sacred texts such as three, ten, "fourteen three times, one hundred and fifty three (one, five to the basis and three points.. or side seventeen - bin.10011001)" and the tetrahedron, but also others polygons analyzed using complex mathematical formulas and theorems kept secret and went largely lost.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 24, 2009 n°: 1156
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The Plato wisdom

According to the Athenian philosopher Aristocles (427 - 347 BC), the only true wisdom is in practice "to know of not to know" and this theory is explained with examples from Socrates often the protagonist of the Platonic dialogues, which however, has not left written anything, because the books are like that bronze vases that if beaten do nothing but an echo and therefore have "no answer, nor to ask" (in the Protagoras), and writing is like those paintings that seem "almost alive, but if you turn them a few questions remain in venerable silence" and instead, to find the truth would require a persuasive discussion of questions and answers. In the Theaetetus Plato explains the difficult work of digging deep within ourselves "maieutic" with dialectical method to analyze everything, down to an empty condition and "a good essay does not think know what you do not know", but this consideration goes even a continues research for a all the lifetime [automatic translation global English].

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 02, 2009 n°: 1111
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Galileian nights of observation of the sky

Four hundred years after the first observations of the sky made in October of 1609 with a simple two-lens telescope by Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) astronomers are promoting to the general public in honor of the great scientist three days of intense observation of the space with telescopes, whereas Galileo was the first to identify the four main satellites of Jupiter, and made accurate drawings of lunar craters discovered that the moon was not a perfect sphere. Be noted that although Galileo did not invent the telescope discovered in 1583 the isochronism of the pendulum and the possibility to improve the accuracy of time measurement in the field of watchmaking, (but was Christiaan Huygens to use his intuition in 1657 making the first watch to pendulum).. the activity of the scientist was limited by house arrest following the recantation for to not be tortured to cause of his astronomical theories.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 23, 2009 n°: 1103
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Biological clock and seasons

A rather complex environmental signals seem to regulate the internal biological clock of both plant and animal organisms and some researchers have noted that these rhythms might be influenced by changes in light from dawn to begin, then every hour and even with the advance of seasons. Understanding these mechanisms is important to treat sleep disorders often caused by changes in work, jet lag for international travel or even to improve crops damaged by climate change in the vegetal world, since that growth in plants, flowering and maturation are regulated by organic clocks. Other studies in the past had shown such a slight and controlled physical activity "sweet" might help to overcome changes per hour (for example with solar-hours notice, travel..) possibly gradually with simulations appropriate also mentally.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 21, 2009 n°: 1101
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Living on less than a kilometer from a green area

Much researches had in the past have noted the health benefits to live near green spaces untouched, and now a large Dutch study estimated that individuals who live less than a kilometer from a green area seems to declare that they suffer a little less under various aches and pains, coronary disorders, headaches, digestive problems, depression in particular.. and "minor" problems might also derive a small benefit housing, less than three kilometers from the green oasis (always for periods of time at least more than twelve months). To note, moreover, that high blood pressure does not seem to suffer any major changes contrary to what one usually thinks and middle-aged people seem to get more benefits from living close to the green of the elderly persons, and in any case also physical activity may play a role in improving the general health conditions.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 16, 2009 n°: 1097
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A planet vulnerable to the climate change

The earth's crust in some areas could suffer for the erosive action of weather and changes in sea levels due to climate change with the result that could be intensify phenomena such as landslides, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes where the crust and the underlying tectonic plate remains unfilled and the magma can flow easily to the surface. It seems that changes in precipitation may change the stability of volcanoes because of the water that may alter the stability of rocks and thus cause eruptions of magma. Another reported problem again because of climate change is linked to the health status of populations experienced by poor harvests and a set of factors that significantly worsen the well-being of billions of people, which implies the need for curbing as much possible the pollution emissions.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 26, 2009 n°: 1080
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Increased production of food in the world

According to international organizations, it is assumed that the world population is expected to increase from 6.8 billion people to about 9.1 by 2050 with the result that the demand for food could grow some seventy per cent in future, but to achieve this objective is necessary to make some pretty significant changes to methods of production and agriculture that can hardly be achieved usually with the current development system. It is estimated that in addition to optimize production of crops need more land for crops effectively exploited (including for biofuels) and water to irrigate these fields ploughed, but with careful management of resources the planet should be able to feed everyone. Other researches include the need to try to stem the phenomenon of impoverishment and desertification of land in some areas on the globe.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 24, 2009 n°: 1078
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A nice cut of the polluting emissions

To keep average global temperatures at a safe limit that may prevent significant climate change has been calculated that it should not be released into the atmosphere over about 750 billion tons of carbon dioxide by 2050, so even hit the target to try to contain below two degrees Celsius global warming of the planet (temperatures that may impact on sea levels, the economy and the survival of whole populations). Assuming that every person in the world has the right to emit a certain amount of emissions shows that individuals living in more industrialized countries should further limit the average emissions, even with financial aid and initiatives for the realization of ecological systems in favor of the poor, who already are penalized for example from the desertification of the land.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 22, 2009 n°: 1076
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Peace mission or real war

From the evidence of some soldiers who have served in Afghanistan seems that what is described as a mission of peace is indeed a real war, with cruel scenarios for a population that is found decades plagued by endless conflict and troops of many countries that battling for the control of a territory that is considered strategic, so that the borders have been the subject of international disputes for centuries and many wars have seriously damaged the agricultural production and the entire economy of the country. Afghanistan is a Central Asian state of about 652,000 kilometers square area characterized by a mountainous area with the chain of the Hindu Kush which constitutes a barrier to the monsoon and the cold winds with mountain peaks that exceed 7000 m from which descend many rivers, but without access to the sea and bordering Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 19, 2009 n°: 1074
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Eye disorders treated with genetics

Using an ordinary cold virus rendered harmless, scientists would be able to convey the appropriate genes in the retina of squirrel monkeys with no visual disturbances, which allows the red and green color vision, succeeding thanks to a carefully targeted to avoid damage to the cone cells sound that return the yellow and blue.. after about five months of tests with small rewards have shown that the animals had been returned to the complete view of all colors. This type of treatment seems to work only in relatively young individuals than in adults because the connections between retina and brain are long-established and unlikely to be cured. Genetic therapy to improve vision even if you already tested on children with particular birth defects is still in "experimental", but the first tests seem interesting.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 17, 2009 n°: 1072
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Incandescent bulbs obsolete

Is already started with the hundred-watt bulbs the progressive phase with the aim of replacing all the inefficient incandescent bulbs with energy-efficient ones and then get together to save a large amount of energy ( about forty terawatt-hours and less fifteen million tons of CO2 emissions in Europe), and thanks to LEDs technology that is developing rapidly, is possible a further consumption cut. The incandescent lamps was invented in 1813 by passing an electric current in a coal rod mounted on a coal block with no particular protections, then in 1878 J. Swan (1828-1914) and T. Edison (1847-1931) using vacuum pumps and carbon filaments perfected the first light platinum filament bulbs of the 1820 of W. De la Rue. In 1880 the Italian Alexander Cruto (1847-1908) was able to deposit the carbon on a thin platinum wire in the environment consisting of hydrocarbons.

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Telephone: +39 338 1809310 Date: Sep 02, 2009 n°: 1059
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