Category Archives: General

Originally posted on Agriculture in China 农业中国:
The Brazilian Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock, the main body representing millions of farmers in Brazil, will open an office in Beijing next Wednesday aiming to increase bilateral agricultural trade and attract Chinese investment…

Originally posted on The Ruffled Crow:
A strange creature races against time to create his successor in this beautifully animated short. http://youtu.be/YDXOioU_OKM

Originally posted on Cyber Gazing:
The water slide named Insano is located in Fortaleza Brazil.  The slide is 41 meters high, which is equivalent to a 14 storey building.  Insano is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.  Plummeting…

Originally posted on Lacy Travels:
Me at bottom of Chapeu Mangueira favela stairs. RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL– Living in the favela is a sort of bad-ass status symbol for foreigners–a sign that you are not just a passing “gringo” that…

Originally posted on Lost Sambista:
From far away it looked like a drunkard who had stumbled and fallen asleep on the dried up football field but as we got closer, it became obvious that this was not the case. The…

Originally posted on RioReal:
Infrastructure is tops, then education and health Last week the Getúlio Vargas Foundation presented the results of a pioneering study that aims to leapfrog community improvement into the twenty-first century. Using information and communication technology, or…

Originally posted on WANDERLUST:
The first retrospective of the pioneering artists’ organisation Artist Placement Group, or APG, conceived by Barbara Steveni in 1965 and established a year later by Steveni and John Latham along with Barry Flanagan, David Hall, Anna…