-
Recent Posts
- They can fly 200 miles with no fuel. Here’s how.
- Life saving insulin cost by country
- This transparent pool (“Sky Pool”) is suspended between two buildings
- High angels [OC]
- How this tiny country became the best at night trains in Europe
- US vs China: Who is leading the race to the Moon? – Asia Specific podcast, BBC World Service
- How did English come to have different words for “ape” and “monkey”?
- why do we even HAVE the word “monkey”? #linguistics
Archives
Categories
Monthly Archives: August 2018
https://vagtc.wordpress.com/2018/08/03/brazil-literature-culture-society/
Posted in General
Leave a comment
The world’s most ambitious parenting program
Criança Feliz (Happy Child) is an ambitious new parent coaching program in Brazil. It teaches parents the importance of early childhood learning and development with the goal of fighting inequality. If it works, it might lift millions in Latin America’s … Continue reading
Posted in Brazil
Tagged Brazil, brazilian style, construction, Culture, infrastructure, Life, Politics, South America
Leave a comment
STRANDBEEST EVOLUTION 2017
Numerous specimen of the Strandbeest evolution on music of Khachaturian’s Spartacus. It open the archives of fossils. Theo Jansen’s work since 1990. He tries to make new forms of live on beaches. His animals get their energy from the wind … Continue reading
Moving sculpture|TED 2002
Sculptor and engineer Arthur Ganson talks about his work — kinetic art that explores deep philosophical ideas and is gee-whiz fun to look at.
Council seeks public’s reaction to Manchester’s ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ regeneration plan — Northern Housing Magazine
MANCHESTER residents are being asked to have their say over once-in-a-generation proposals to transform the north of the city and build thousands of new homes. The Northern Gateway regeneration project is billed as one of the largest regeneration projects in … Continue reading
24 Hours in São Paulo
Originally posted on Sister Sister Travels:
Sao Paulo was a rarity for us, normally as soon as we step off the plane or boat we are already falling in love with a city, but when visiting Sao Paulo, it took…
Posted in General
Leave a comment
Sandra Portella: Banho de Fé
World Listening Post Samba Showers Listening Post 162. Samba isn’t just Brazil’s most iconic cultural symbol, it’s also a useful lens. From its roots in Africa to its emergence in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, from attracting the most … Continue reading
Posted in General
Leave a comment
Japanese Musician Creates Unique Drum Beats by Tapping on Vintage Tape Recorders
Japanese musicians Ei Wada, Haruka Yoshida, and Masaru Yoshida create reverberating drum beats on the outstretched tape of cracked open reel-to-reel tape recorders from the 1970s and 1980s. The group, appropriately named Open Reel Ensemble, produces an intriguing timbre that more … Continue reading
Posted in Drumming
Tagged Art, creatives, Culture, drum, Japan, music, rhythm, Technology
Leave a comment
The Bermuda Triangle: A Breeding Ground for Rogue Waves or a Pit of Human Mistakes? – Live Science
…and then they just disappeared. The Bermuda Triangle, a mysterious stretch of ocean between Bermuda, Puerto Rico and the tip of Florida, has allegedly, throughout the years, swallowed a horde of unsuspecting ships, planes and people. Many tales have been … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged comparison, conjecture, creatives, history, maritime, science
Leave a comment
msamba 