Category Archives: General

Friday’s snapshot from a Museum

Originally posted on Coat Hanger Doll's House:
where the rain forest creeps in … This week I have, as you know been in Rio de Janeiro and away from from the library unable to bring you a library snapshot.…

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A mobile app to measure how children experience violence

Originally posted on Bernard van Leer Foundation Blog:
Children’s perceptions of violence are an essential input when it comes to designing, implementing and monitoring prevention policies and programmes. However, their views and experiences are rarely collected systematically, especially in low-income…

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The Obesity Epidemic in Emerging Economies

Originally posted on Emerging Markets Today:
We all read articles about the obesity epidemic in the ‘developed countries’ like the US for instance. Gastric bands surgeries offered to overweight patients on the NHS (the UK’s National Health system) caused polemic…

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Lynchings, or On Racism in Brazil in 2015

Originally posted on Americas South and North:
A few days ago, in the northeastern city of São Luís in the state of Maranhão, Cleidenilson Pereira da Silva and an adolescent attempted to rob a store. While an attempted theft in…

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Terra Arisca by Diego Fabro

Originally posted on adamhersey:
Today I wanted to share with you the documentary work that Mr Fabro has undertaken over the course of the last two years. A native Brazilian, who is studying at Griffith College in Dublin, Fabro has…

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These shoes were the Cherry on top of my cake

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Manchester the clear focus of George Osborne’s ‘northern powerhouse’

Originally posted on Sustainable Smart Cities:
In a previous (re)blog that was drafted by Brad  – The Mancunian Way or the Highway – it was clear that Manchester was very much at the heart of what Government (and George Osbourne) considered…

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“California Inspires Me”.

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Maracatu Concert – Exiting Confort Zone

Originally posted on Smallcontemplations:
Being in Puerto Iguazu, on your own, for dissertation research can be very overwhelming. I find myself alone most of the time, in a nice hotel, repressed in my room; writing my dissertation and emailing people…

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Insights | New Brazilian Stereotypes

Originally posted on A State of Translation:
There’s a lot I / Americans in general don’t know about Brazil, but in an effort to avoid a long-winded rant about the lack of exposure given to Brazilian news or history in the…

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