Varese

Classes with YouTube, iTunes and podcasts. This is the future.

Technology is not enough to make innovations in teaching. We need also a big educational leap to learn the rules of the Internet: experiment and socialise.

Brebbia

Fifty eight full-time postmen and women are coming. Mayors rejoice

The agreement signed by all of the trade unions in Lombardy and the Post Office, resolves the problem, at least in part. The contract for postmen and women will go from part-time to full-time. “A success,” says the leader of the protest, Domenico Gioia.

Malpensa

Volandia, close-up on the Moon

Casper, the lunar module of the Apollo 16 mission, is now housed in the museum. A new exhibition in the Space Pavilion, with truly unique pieces that belonged to the astronauts, that have never been exhibited.

Venegono Superiore

Hope prevails at the “Israeli” presentation of the M346

The gem of Aermacchi, for which an order will bring more than €450 million into the company’s coffers, leads a hope for a more stable future. Meanwhile, negotiations between the company and trade unions are continuing.

Busto Arsizio

Naomi, disabled and in the cold. Her mother Aurora can’t take it any longer: “Give me a job”

A domestic accident has made her 100% disabled, now she is 4 years old and needs a lot of cures to return to having a dignified life. Her mother has asked the social services for help but has received nothing: "I want to ensure her a future"

Varese

“This PGT will take more money from the citizens”

The obligatory equal distribution will require higher obligations for those that are restoring a house, while those that live in a historical building will have to pay to draw up the building's form. The Democratic Party (PD) ask to delete this and other strangenesses.

A letter

Animal experimentation. Researchers at Insubria: “We don’t torture animals”

The people at the university’s Epigenetics Laboratory explain their point of view on scientific experimentation, particularly, in studies on the treatment of Rett’s syndrome.

Motorcycling

MV-Agusta and Yakhnich, the Italian-Russian alliance that is scaring the Japanese

The racing team involved in the Superbike and, above all, in the Supersport, where the Varese-built F3 won on its debut in the Championship, has been presented in Schiranna. Castiglioni: “May we relive the excitement of the past.”

Cinema

It is all ready for the Baff from Ozpetek to “Il Pretore”

The twelfth edition of the cinematographic festival which will be held from March 29 to April 5 and will be filled with special guests such as Ferzan Ozpetek and previews such as the one of the film based on the novel of Piero Chiara.

Varese

Sustainable cruises over lakes, the challenge for Expo

From the region come 576,000 Euros for starting cruiser over lakes in Varese and Verbano between contemporaneity and archaeology. “The goal is combining travelling by water and by land,” the Treasurer of tourism says.

Gallarate

Aerial views of Italian squares, by Giorgio Pomella

The theme of Filosofarti 2014 is the Square: the exhibition organised by “Vivere Crenna” portrays this theme, drawing inspiration from the most immediate and physical feature, namely, the town square, in the watercolours of the Touring Club illustrator.