How were teenagers in the past? Were teenagers rebels with their parents or society in the past as in these days? Actually it's not easy to become adults, but in the past teenagers weren't so wayward. In ancient Rome father (pater familias) was an absolute authority, who left no room of rebellions and had rights of life and death on his sons and daughters, also when they were adults. Rebel daughters suffered also corporal punishment and could be closed in convent for ever. Generally in the past the adolescence was a moment of the life where people adapted to the society. It wasn't a phase were people affirm their personalities. The image of the young as opposed to the adult world is therefore recent.

Las hadas ignorantes "Las hadas ignorantes" es una película de Ferzan Ozpetek, con Margherita Buy y Stefano Accorsi. Cuenta la historia de Antonia, un medico especializado en el tratamiento de la infección por VIH, y su marido Maximo. Parece que ellos sean felices e que sus relación sea intensa y perfecta pero rutinaria y perturbada por la complicada relación que Antonia tiene con su madre. Por desgracia Maximo muere atropellado por un carro y Antonia se desespera. Entre las cosas que Antonia toma de la oficina donde Maximo trabajaba, ella busca una pintura, llamada "Las hadas ignorantes", con una misteriosa dedica de amor. Acaso Maximo tenia una otra mujer? Antonia quiere saber quien es la protagonista de esta dedica. Su investigación le hará descubrir una realidad sorprendente: Maximo vivía una secreta relación con Miguel, un joven comerciante. Miguel echa en cara a ella los sacrificios que el había hecho pare estar con el su amante, sin embargo Antonia decide de encontrarlo para saber una nueva historia de Maximo, que hasta ese momento no podía imaginar...

When was first selfie taken? In the Italian dictionary the word "selfie" has been presented since 2014. However the selfie trend is previous and according to some people it should be placed to few centuries ago. Actually the age of the selfie depends on different point of views and what you mean by the word. If it means a picture that is taken with a smartphone, then we can't go beyond to 2006. Britney Spears said that the selfie is her invention, but maybe it's the first "vip" selfie since the era of smartphones. In fact before her many people have took a self-portrait with the polaroid or camera such as Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, characters of Thelma and Louise movie. However even these actresses weren't the first. This trend was launched by Madonna in 1984 on the set of "Desperately Seeking Susan". It doesn't end here! If we went back in time, we would find a picture of the stylist Maripole, with Bianca Jagger and the actress Edwige Belmore while they took a self portrait with the instant camera. Probably there could be other pictures of that time because also Andy Warhol never far from his polaroid. We can find selfie of Marylin Monroe and George Harrison that are placed on 1960.

La Ghirladina La Ghirladina es una torre de la Catedral de Modena. Si hubiera vivido cuando fue edificada, la habríamos vista diferente que en la actualidad, porque la torre habría sido más baja y sine el techo agudo. Sin embargo por mucho tiempo esta torre fue más grande de todas las tierras circundantes. Parece que la torre estaba ornada de "le ghirlande" que eran barandillas de marmo.

The smell of the body changes with age. The smell of our body depends on various things, for example from hygiene or food. The age can also be surprising. In fact, the smell of our body changes with the age but not for the worse, as we often think. Our smell depends on combination of factors and it is determined by the bacterial activity, the substances produced by sebaceous and sweat glands and moreover by the food. According to firm published on PlOs One, we can recognize the age of someone by the sense of smell. It was made an experiment using the shirts of some volunteers with different ages. They wore them for 5 nights. A group of various participants had to guess the age of those volunteers and substantially the answer were correct. Volunteers have unexpectedly shown a clear preference for shirts that had been worn by people later in life, despite the widespread idea that the elderly have a less pleasant smell.

Ignorance is dangerous This period isn't easy and we have different ways to deal with it. However sometimes I'm disgusted by ignorance of people, when they argue the various topic of the COVID-19, government's decisions and so on... Ignorance is repugnant and manifest itself when people rather than shut up because they don't know what they're talking about, they fill the position of "life coach", despite they would have a lot of things to learn. But it's pricey, although I reckon that their ignorance is more expensive. It would be enough little to avoid it: they wouldn't talk about the topic that they don't know or maybe they could say easily "sorry, I don't know...". I would hope that a glimmer of intelligence exists. Nevertheless it's an utopian thinking that a little mind can think it. Actually it's easier that it feeds off his own presumption. All this is very dangerous and scares me.

La ignorancia Una cosa clara por la quale yo soy espanto sobre como nosotros abordamos este periodo y todo lo que lo caracteriza es la ignorancia. La ignorancia es repugnante cuando las personas antes que callar porque no saben algo, asumen la posición de "maestros de vida". Ellos habrían mucho que aprender, pero por ellos cuesta, sino que pienso que acaso su propria ignorancia cuesta más. Bastaría poco, no hablar o dicer "yo no sé". Yo creo que es más humilde, honesto y inteligente. Pero yo pienso también que una mente pequeña no puede pensar así. De hecho, es más fácil que una persona se alimente de su propria presunción. Todo ello es estremamente peligroso y me asusta.