Showing posts with the label Brazil

Alberto Santos-Dumont: The Brazilian Aviation Pioneer

Mar 29, 2022

The Wright brothers are generally considered to be the inventors of flight, but in Brazil, it is their son of the soil Alberto Santos-Dumont...

Guarapari’s Radioactive Beaches

Mar 17, 2021

About 50 km south of Vitória, the state capital of Espírito Santo, in southeastern Brazil, lies the coastal town of Guarapari, a popular tou...

The Goiânia Radiological Accident

Oct 24, 2019

A radiation therapy unit in a hospital. Photo credit: Thomas Hecker/Shutterstock.com Radioactive isotopes have a very niche use in medicin...

The 4,000-Year-Old Termite Mounds The Size of Britain

Nov 21, 2018

In the seasonally dry, deciduous forests of northeastern Brazil, obscured by walls of thorny-scrubs, is a vast landscape made up of tens of ...

The Soccer Stadium Lying On Two Hemispheres

Apr 30, 2018

This Friday, two local Brazilian football clubs—Santos FC and Macapá—will face each other at the Estádio Milton Corrêa, a multi-purpose sta...

The Rise of Vertical Cemeteries

Nov 29, 2017

According to the Population Reference Bureau , there are approximately 101 billion dead people on earth with 7 billion more to join them wit...

Pomerode: The Most German Town In Brazil

Jun 8, 2017

About thirty kilometers to the north of Blumenau, a city in Brazil, lies the town of Pomerode, so named because its founders came from Pomer...

These Massive Tunnels Were Dug By Giant Sloths

Apr 15, 2017

Across northern South America, there are hundreds of colossal tunnels large enough for humans to walk through, but they weren’t dug by men. ...

Artist Creates Record-Breaking Mural For Rio Olympics

Aug 17, 2016

While athletes compete for various titles at Rio’s ongoing Olympic Games, one Brazilian graffiti artist Eduardo Kobra is attempting to enter...

Friedrich Bayer Bridge, Sao Paulo

Jul 18, 2016

The Friedrich Bayer Bridge is located in front of headquarters of the German multinational pharmaceutical company Bayer, in Sao Paulo, Brazi...