Last weekend the usual summer assembly was held, inevitably this year with few in live presence and many remotely hopefully for the last time.
After 2 consecutive terms of Francesco Lo Mastro the presidency was entrusted to Francesco Sauro.
A chat with Tullio Bernabei about a unique natural wonder in the world, the Cave of Crystals in Naica, Mexico.
Just four years ago the word of the year in the monumental Oxford English Dictionary was "post-truth" (posttruth), defined as "argumentation, characterized by a strong appeal to emotionality, which, based on widespread beliefs and not verified facts, it tends to be accepted as truthful, influencing public opinion ”. This means that while the scientific community promotes evidence-based behaviors and strategies, modern society may have arrived at a new model in which what matters is not truthfulness but attention and social signaling (McCarthy et al. , 2020). This often results in the dissemination of speculative, misleading or reinterpreted information as certain.
In this 2020 marked by the rampant Covid-19 pandemic, the activities of La Venta have also suffered a drastic slowdown, all non-European projects are obviously blocked waiting for a return to normal. It is in this context of global uncertainty that Alessio's e-mail, in which he proposed a 4/5 days on the Swiss glaciers, was a bolt from the blue!
A chat with Gaetano Boldrini on the stories and tales of the expeditions of La Venta and how these have changed over time.
Read more: Words from the dark. Explorations and stories in distant worlds. - Stories of expeditions
A chat with Luca Parmitano and Francesco Sauro on what speleology has in common with space exploration.
