It looks like Italy is getting a little more serious about the effects of climate change with the announcement of a conference in Rome:

http://www.lifeinitaly.com/news/news...sp?newsid=6566

I am glad that they will be discussing what I feel is one of the most serious impacts of global climate change: water resources.

The Sahara desert is a geographic stone's throw away from Southern Italy, a land already parched by the hot desert winds. With Europe...

We are now moving the review of Italian food products to a new program / database. the old one did not quite work. If anybody wants to rate Italian products and he/she is familiar with taste of Italian food in Italy please contact me. See
http://my.lifeinitaly.com/food/index.php/cat/1

Paolo

I am all for scientific advancement, but this latest news article is a little creepy:

http://www.lifeinitaly.com/news/news...sp?newsid=6534

"News that British regulators have decided in principle to allow the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos for research has provoked horror in the Vatican and among Catholics in Italy."

Maybe its the science fiction lover in me but I'm seeing all sorts of consequences from this kind of precedent....

Ho sentito dire che molti Italiani per celebrare l’inizio del nuovo anno buttano oggetti vecchi fuori dalla finestra la notte di Capodanno. Non lo so che sia vero o no....or whether Italians do this at all.

I had never expected the almost clinically clean Singaporeans would throw things out of their window, but my neighbors upstairs do it on a regular basis.

I finally had enough of it yesterday and complained....the security guy who came to check was outraged when...

A great news article on a new book about the Mona Lisa:

http://www.lifeinitaly.com/news/news...sp?newsid=6526

Actually Lillian Schwartz first posed this theory years ago but apparently she never published. I suppose every artist leaves a bit of themselves in their work, but did Leonardo paint the Mona Lisa as a self-portrait?

Many of the faces of women in Leonardo's paintings have a similar look. But in my opinion the work that looks the most...