Blog, a Brazilian invention
Way before the explosion of blogs (over 156 million according to the latest statistics), way before they were named blogs (web+log), there were “open diaries” […]
Science
Padre Landell, Father of Radio
How a Brazilian priest – accused by the Church of devilish practices, and considered insane by president Rodrigues Alves – patented the first wireless […]
Maquiné, the cradle of Brazilian paleonthology
Paleontology was introduced in the country by Danish naturalist Peter Wilhelm Lund, that arrived in the country in the 1820s. In the following decades, he […]
The mythical Jaguar, biggest feline of Americas
Liana John* It is easy to see a beast as a link between life and death, but the mythical jaguar goes far beyond and closes […]
Earthquakes in Brazil
Compared to some of his neighboring countries, Brazil is practically immune to natural disasters. All Brazilians volcanoes have been extinct for several million years (more […]
Where to find Brazilian academic studies
A few Brazilian repositories of scientifical papers are among the most complete in the world. One – Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scielo) – even ranks […]
UFOs over Brazil
Brazil has its own Roswell – a widely documented episode in which hundreds of people declared they witnessed the presence of extraterrestrial aliens during a […]
Brazil, 20 years from now
From the Chrystal Ball series: The Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology released today a study that outlines how the country and the planet will […]