Those rich reds adorning paintings in Pompeii were originally ochre – Italian researchers say they now think that sensuous Pompeian red is the result of an accident. Researchers at the national science council (CNR) say the original signature color at the ill-fated city of Pompeii was probably yellow - ochre to be specific. Before Mount [...]
This is just about as cheap a thrill as they get: by pledging even just a dollar, you can help fund a project to find a lost Leonardo Da Vinci fresco in Florence, Italy. Photographer Dave Yoder has been working on for a number of years on a quest funded by the National Geographic Society [...]
As someone who has a hard time remembering what it was like to listen to music before you could hit “shuffle” or curate a digital playlist, I’m a big fan of automated music recommendation and Internet radio service Pandora. But that streaming service offers almost no Italian music, whether you want classic folk, pop power [...]
If you’ve spent any time in Italy, the results of a new survey won’t surprise you: Italians still prefer socializing in person, usually at the neighborhood cafe, to social media. Some 1,200 people polled by apéritif maker Sanbitter — via Facebook — found that most Italians still prefer to discuss the matters of the day [...]
By Nicole Martinelli Tourists have long crowded in museums to admire Caravaggio’s Bacchus, but a new 3.4 billion-pixel image of the painting allows for an amazingly detailed look at an old master’s work from your computer screen. It’s the first in a series of super-high-resolution digital versions of masterpieces from Italy’s Uffizi Gallery, including Sandro [...]
The Italian government recently passed a series of strict new driving laws that will affect locals and tourists on the roads in the Bel Paese. A few of the new rules to keep in mind: DUIs. No more jail time for drivers with a blood alcohol level (BAC) of 0.08 to 0.05 (already stricter than [...]
It won’t be able to change the contested calls in the World Cup, but scientists at Italy’s National Research Council are working on a host of non-invasive solutions that would help referees judge games. In Bari, at the Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation (Issia), researchers are perfecting a prototype system that has already been [...]
Inspired by Sara Rosso’s video of Italians dancing with their hands, I took my Flip HD out to Milan’s Piazza Duomo to capture a bit of hand jive for practice. A couple of random observations: most of the pairs, for as much as they vary in age, sex, etc., have one person doing the talking [...]
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCU0RcoxKxE Italy’s Justice Minister used an iPhone to cite a wiretapping law during a prime-time talk show. Minister Angelino Alfano, best known outside Italy for a controversial immunity law meant to save the bacon of beleaguered Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, pulled out a iPhone clad in a patriotic tricolor sticker to consult an app called [...]
By Nicole Martinelli, Contributor In Italy, the fashion capital of Milan is looking to improve customer satisfaction with emoticons. At the city hall, touch screens offer Italians a green smiley face if satisfied or a red frowney face if displeased. Locals are all smiles now that they can zap public employees with angry little faces [...]
