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Consumption, habits, young people, health, environment and regulation: how we live and how we change, through data, news and some personal experience.


  • Eco-anxiety, heat and glaciers

    A psychologist warns against medicalising climate fear. Meanwhile the Marmolada gives up nine hectares in a year and summer 2026 breaks every record: how do you live with the unease?

  • Cannabis in pharmacies

    Cannabis in pharmacies

    Swiss pharmacies sell cannabis with professional counselling and the risks fall. Italy bans it by decree. Data, court rulings, models from abroad and why prohibition delivers nothing.

  • High from a spray can

    In a home-goods chain I noticed a plain spray can sold as an air freshener. Behind it lies a risky teen trend: inhalant gases, alarming figures and stories every parent should know.

  • Trusting wearables without fear

    Rings and bands track blood pressure, sleep, and heart rate all day long. The trust that health wearables build gets exploited too, by scams and by fake, needle-free glucose meters.

  • Less screen, more presence

    Handing email and scheduling to AI cuts screen-related stress, recent studies confirm it. For relationships and the moments that count, though, physical presence stays irreplaceable.

  • Why failure feels so good

    From the Ferragni case to Estetista Cinica’s balance sheet: why other people’s downfall is so entertaining, what psychology research says, and why Umberto Eco already had it figured out.

  • Empty umbrellas in Abruzzo

    Fewer swimmers under the umbrellas, rising prices and a growing appetite for free beaches: what’s really changing on the Abruzzo coast, told by someone who spends every summer there.

  • Coffee pods are now packaging

    EU regulation 2025/40 makes coffee capsules and pods official packaging from 12 August. I look at what changes for recycling, starting from my own switch to the moka pot years ago.

  • Digital school, how far along are we?

    Between PNRR funds spent too slowly, a digital divide widened by Covid and teachers who eye the tablet with suspicion, Italian schools are still looking for their own path forward.

  • Vaping in Italy: youth on alert

    How much Italy really vapes, who is opening all these specialty vape shops, what the latest studies say about the risks compared with smoking, and how France, the UK and the US compare.

  • The big chill of online dating

    Dating apps are shedding subscribers and stock value, Gen Z has deserted the swipe, and courtship is migrating elsewhere: to LinkedIn, to Strava and even into the chats of gaming apps.

  • Empty storefronts, new cities

    Italy lost 96,000 shops between 2018 and 2025, yet retail revenues keep on growing. A walk through deserted streets, international comparisons, and the ethnic minimarkets holding out.