giovedì 31 maggio 2018

Artificial Brain Ten Years Away

A top British professor presented in a conference his building of replica human brain. Professor Henry Markham told that this it's not impossible and we can do it in 10 years. He is director of the Blue Brain project, which aims to engineer mammals' brains from laboratory data. He has already had success with creating parts of a rat's brain. Markham said that the human brain was an almost frithtening organ. Professor hoped his research would lead to new treatments for mental illnesses. Markham believes that a technology brain reduce the need of experiments on animals. He provided a simple explanation of his work: "It's a bit like going and cataloguing a bit of the rainforest.. But it is a bit more because you have to describe and discover all the rules of communication and connectivity."




giovedì 24 maggio 2018

Adidas to make shoes from ocean garbage.

Adidas has made sports shoes from ocean garbage. The trainer is part of a project to raise perception of the big problem of ocean pollution. Adidas collaborates whit an organisation called Parley, which protects and preserves the Earth's oceans.
This is the demonstration that the plastic can be transformate into something cool. Garbage in the ocean is a very big problem and UNESCO says that there are 30.000 pieces of plastic for every km of ocean. Plastic kills many marine animals every year.
Another project to help the enviroment is the elimination of plastic bag in every Adidas shops.





Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel was born in Saumur, city of the Loire, on 19 August 1883 and she was a famous French stylist, capable of revolutionizing the concept of femininty.
She founded her fisrt fashion home and she transformed the color black, used for funerals, into something elegant and beautiful. She liked drawing and always making new clothes: her clothes  became famous in all over the world. Her life was difficult since childhood, she had to over come many obastacles like the life in the orphanage.
A quote very kind is: Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.