In the novel Cem Anos de Solitude , the writer Gabriel García Márquez describes Macondo as such a new place that things even lacked name and needed to be pointed with the finger. For in Brazil at the beginning of the 19th century, the situation was not very different, at least in relation to the exuberant nature, hitherto… Read More »
The president of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), minister Dias Toffoli, has authorized former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to leave the prison on Wednesday to meet relatives after his brother’s death in São Bernardo do Campo, in Greater São Paulo. Genival Inácio da Silva, the Vavá, died as a result of a lung tumor.… Read More »
A decision taken this week by the Justice of Minas Gerais, which meets a request from the Public Prosecutor’s Office in 2016 to avoid disasters with dams, eventually came too late for Brumadinho (MG). The Justice of Minas Gerais granted on Tuesday (29) an injunction (provisional) that prevents the Minas Gerais government from granting new… Read More »
Vale’s decision to halt ore exploration operations and to deactivate ten dams that use tailings storage methods similar to the Córrego do Feijão mine, which broke last week in Brumadinho (MG), was classified by the company’s president, Fábio Schvartsman, of “definitive plan” and “drastic”. The measure envisages, in practice, to retire the upstream dam method – equal… Read More »
A British supermarket chain is raising the price of its reusable plastic bags as a test and introducing a paper version. Paper bags will be available in only eight Morrisons stores as part of a two-month experience. The network said the reduction of plastic was the main environmental concern of its customers. Paper bags remain popular in… Read More »
Batteries and chargers have been counted for days. That’s right if the researchers from the American university Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study the transmission of energy using signals from wi-fi. “We are introducing a new way to power electronic systems in the future – by simply capturing wi-fi power in a way that can easily… Read More »
Humor phrases, images and videos reflect everyday situations and are especially popular with young people who use platforms like WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat to share them. Now Facebook wants to use them to win back the teenagers, who are abandoning the social network at a dramatic pace. # 10YearsChallenge: How to disable facebook facial… Read More »
Kristo Kaarmann, cofounder and managing director of the company TransferWise, was not content to be “incredibly stupid” when he had the idea that would give rise to the business valued today at more than 1.2 billion pounds, equivalent to about R $ 6 billion. This happened in 2008 when the 28-year-old Estonian worked in London… Read More »
To get the best view of the space launch base in Kourou, French Guiana, you need to climb a steep hill in the middle of the rainforest. The walk is arduous. But this is not the worst of the journey. At the top, the trees give way to a wooden observation platform with the sign “Casa Araignées”… Read More »
Letting a small child spend a lot of time using tablets, cell phones and other electronic devices with screens may delay the development of language and sociability skills, according to a Canadian study. The survey, which tracked about 2,500 2-year-olds, is the latest evidence in the debate over how long screen usage is safe for children. In Canada and… Read More »