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Giuseppe Frisella

Giuseppe Frisella

How to get wood without killing trees

There’s a silvicultural technique used in Japan that does just that, and it is called Daisugi.

1 min readFeb 12, 2024

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How to get wood without killing trees

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Giuseppe Frisella

How much stronger is Earth’s gravity compared to Mars and the Moon?

The moon exerts a gravitational force with an intensity equal to 1/6 of that of the earth.

1 min readFeb 12, 2024

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How much stronger is Earth’s gravity compared to Mars and the Moon?

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Giuseppe Frisella

Are there breathable liquids?

Yes. Fluorocarbons are hydrocarbons made up of fluorine or bromine, and carbon only.

1 min readFeb 12, 2024

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Are there breathable liquids?

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Giuseppe Frisella

How much a human being costs

The photo does not include many other organs, such as the heart ($119,000), egg cells (up to $50,000), coronary artery ($1,525), small…

1 min readFeb 12, 2024

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How much a human being costs

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Giuseppe Frisella

Stellar Oddities

ELBM J0555–57Ab is a red dwarf that is part of a binary system 630 light-years away from us in the constellation Painter. The main star is…

2 min readFeb 12, 2024

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Stellar Oddities

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Giuseppe Frisella

What numbers are made of

According to how numbers (and more generally, ordinals) are defined by Zermelo and von Neumann, they are literally made of nothing.

1 min readFeb 12, 2024

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What numbers are made of

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Giuseppe Frisella

Can a bike not have a chain?

Apparently the Ceramic Speed company has made (not for all its models) a gimbal-like bike transmission.

2 min readFeb 12, 2024

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Can a bike not have a chain?

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Giuseppe Frisella

Do lobsters suffer when boiled in a pot?

It is not that the lobster simply suffers: the lobster literally implodes on itself.

1 min readFeb 12, 2024

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Do lobsters suffer when boiled in a pot?

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Giuseppe Frisella

What would happen if more than 90 percent of the earth’s surface was land?

If the Earth’s surface were 10% covered with water instead of ~70%, then the planet would be going through geological and/or astronomical…

3 min readFeb 12, 2024

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What would happen if more than 90 percent of the earth’s surface was land?

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Giuseppe Frisella

What should the surface of a neutron star look like?

These are the first mappings of the surface of a Pulsar, a variety of neutron star, precisely PSR J0030 +0451.

2 min readFeb 12, 2024

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What should the surface of a neutron star look like?

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Giuseppe Frisella

Giuseppe Frisella

I'm a curious person and I'm on Medium mainly to read and share thoughts and knowledge. I love science, especially physics and evolutionary biology.

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