The choice, shared by all countries of the world, to vaccinate doctors and health workers firsti is the most logical and obvious that there can be. It is clear that if doctors and nurses fall ill, not only can they not assist their patients but they risk spreading the infection even more. In addition, healthcare … Read more
The great British writer John le Carr died at 89. The announcement was made on Guardian, reporting the confirmation of his family. The famous author of some among the greatest thriller and espionage novels died due to a pneumonia (not linked to Covid)at the Royal Cornwall Hospital on Saturday night. – It would be not … Read more
Sometimes certain details are enough to understand how the context around us is in motion. In the first half of the year, Italy lost just a little more jobs than the countries around us: minus 2.96% against a 2.83% drop in the European Union, according to Eurostat. At first glance, it could have been much … Read more
Funtil a few years ago, the main communication tool for a primary hospital was the so-called buzzer. A small transceiver device that made it possible to be traced at any time. Students and trainees looked at him with admiration. Possession of a buzzer was a sign of authority, a demonstration of occupying a high rung … Read more
On the sidelines of the G-20 summit held in Saudi Arabia, a document was made public dell’Institute of international finance which greatly worried heads of state and government who, due to Covid, followed the meeting from afar. According to the figures that are read in these papers and which are confirmed (or directly provided) from … Read more
Marco Santagata, writer, literary critic and university professor, author of essays and novels, in serious condition in hospital in Pisa. Contrary to the news that had spread at first, the scholar was not dead but in an irreversible coma. He fell ill with Covid-19, with the virus grafted onto an already delicate clinical situation. – … Read more
Joy and pain have an uncertain boundary, in the season that lights up the face. The phrase by Fabrizio De Andr, sung in Ave Maria (1971, from The good news) expands, like a colored prayer, at the center of a great work signed by Marco Nereo Rotelli. – Luigi Piccinini The painting is the first … Read more
She died on Sunday at the Polyclinic Hospital in Milan Luisa Mandelli, wife of Guido Crepax, the creator of «Valentina». Born on December 25, 1937 in Trieste, she would have turned 83 next Christmas. A few days ago she had been hit by Covid-19 and hospitalized at the Polyclinic with severe interstitial pneumonia. He leaves … Read more
An election can be an adventure. Illusions and passion combine, you can fall for it. A re-election, a marriage. A thoughtful choice, a decision full of consequences, where the feeling is mixed with a project. This is the difference between the US presidential vote in 2016 and this one in 2020. If the United States … Read more
Only a few days ago at the Milan Triennale, what was supposed to be a tribute to one of the most important and innovative designers of the twentieth century was inaugurated: Enzo Mari curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Francesca Giacomelli. Enzo Mari, protagonist of this exhibition (which will remain open until April 18, Electa … Read more