(/) Reader question – Pedro Henrique Gomes de Queiroz, São Paulo, SP Because, in the Middle Ages, it was an almost exclusively female pastime. While the complexity of chess was only recommended for men of the aristocracy, the “weaker sex”…
According to the book The Lore of Birthdays (“A Sabedoria dos Aniversários”, no translation into Portuguese), by the American anthropologists Ralph and Adelin Linton, birthdays deserve celebrations since Ancient Egypt, that is, the fashion emerged around 3000 BC Both the…
ILLUSTRATES Aluisio Cervelle 1. More than 35 years after the crime, on October 12, 1978, there is still no certainty about who killed groupie Nancy Spungen. For the NYPD, it was her boyfriend, former Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious. But…
In Narnia, the mythical land created by writer CS Lewis in seven fantasy books that have become literary classics, the clock is ticking at a different pace. In the land of the lion Aslan, hours are equivalent to just a…
We talked to four big riders (big wave surfers), a two-time Brazilian champion and two surfing experts to assemble our Top 10 of lethal waves. The champion was the terrible Teahupoo – a wave from the island of Tahiti, in…
»> You know those phones made with two cans and a string between them? Well, the stethoscope works more or less the same way as this crude communicator: the device transmits the sound waves, preventing the sound from being lost…
ILLUSTRATIONS Andre Toma how can you check in this part of the report, Freemasonry had subdivisions and adaptations over time. Today, it has a common base, but later evolves into more than 50 different hierarchies (the so-called Rites). Only two…
Presuntado is a kind of second-rate ham: it has less meat and more fat. Both are made with pork meat, but the Ministry of Agriculture rules that regulate the manufacture of cold cuts are much stricter for ham than for…
»> It’s simple: just look at the plastron, the underside of the carapace, what would be the animal’s belly. “Male tortoises have this deeply concave part of their shell to fit the female’s when mating,” says biologist William Matiazzi,…
Influenced by Greek mythology, so much so that Athena, goddess of war and wisdom, had an owl as a mascot. The Greeks considered the night as the moment of philosophical thought and intellectual revelation and the owl, being a nocturnal…