Superquark

Alzheimer's, fighting fires, energy from organic waste

Alzheimer's can't be cured, but it can be prevented by training all the "muscles," so to speak, of our brain. With the Superquark reporters, we travel to the CNR Neuroscience Institute in Pisa, where the "train your brain" experiment was born, in collaboration with the Institute of Clinical Physiology, the University of Pisa, and the Stella Maris Foundation, with the support of the Pisa Foundation. Fighting fires by intervening well before the flames erupt: how? By using fire itself. The La Pineta di Tocchi Regional Center in the municipality of Monticiano, in the province of Siena, is a center of excellence for teaching fire prevention techniques, including prescribed burning. There's a lot of energy waiting to be recovered in the organic waste bag. We'll discover how to recover it without throwing anything away. We see not only with our eyes, but also with our brains.