Buon Anno!

 

vi auguriamo uno splendido 2026 di nuovo con una copertina del New Yorker. Questa è uscita sul primo numero del 2024 della rivista ed è stata disegnata da Bianca Bagnarelli, illustratrice e fumettista italiana. 

AUGURI!

Faccio a tutti coloro che mi seguono carissimi auguri di Buon Natale con questa divertente copertina del New Yorker, uscita il 17 dicembre (il giorno del mio compleanno, tra l'altro) 1988, firmata da R.O. Blechman, allora nostro ospite a Milano.

 

To Each His Own

 

 

adoro Roz Chast e il suo humor. La posto qui per il termine "chillax" che non conoscevo e che apprendo essere una fusione di chill e relax. Per vedere tutta la storiella, cliccate qui: New Yorker  

How A Woodpecker Pecks Wood

If you’ve heard the hammering of a woodpecker in the woods, you might have wondered how the birds can be so forceful. What does it take to whack your head against a tree repeatedly, hard enough to drill a hole? A team of researchers wondered that too and set out to investigate, by putting tiny muscle monitors on eight downy woodpeckers and recording them with high-speed video as they pecked away in the lab. Science Friday

A team of researchers at Brown has pecked away at the mysterious force of woodpeckers, revealing how the birds combine breathing and whole-body coordination to drill into trees with extraordinary force. “I think one of the most stunning things that we found in this study was that… they’re engaging everything from head and neck muscles, which you might expect, all the way down to muscles in their tail and hips as they push forward during these strikes,” said lead author Nicholas Antonson, a postdoctoral research fellow in ecology, evolution and organismal biology at Brown. 

finiamo l'anno con notizie curiose