Cigarettes can cause about 50 different diseases, especially problems related to the heart and circulation, cancers of various types and respiratory diseases. “Cigarette smoke is absorbed by combustion, which further increases the harm caused by its composition”, says Valéria Cunha…

»> Bingo has an Italian origin. Or rather, in Italian politics. At the end of the Middle Ages, in the city of Genoa, in northwest Italy, there was the custom of periodically replacing members of local political councils through drawing…

»> – How are dictionaries made? – What is the oldest text in Portuguese? Hang in there: it’s pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovulcanoconiotic. Below, you’ll see that the meaning of this 46-letter swear word is simple. The word gained definitive registration in 2001, when…

»> It sends coded messages through infrared light – invisible to the human eye – to the controlled device. When we press the control button, we make this light blink, emitting long and short pulses that make up a binary…

Everything indicates that for a long time this trip will remain only in fiction. Scientists even imagine how to teleport people – it is really difficult to carry out the experiment. By the way, the hypothesis conceived by the physicists…

Basically, the country needed to become an economic and military power. It was a long process that spanned at least 300 years. First, the guys “put the house in order”, resolving internal political and economic conflicts, unifying American society and…

»> Where the sky appears to meet the land or sea depends, of course, on where the observer is – and also on how tall he or she is (the taller the person, the greater the distance). The horizon line…

ILLUSTRATES Frank William For conspirologists, dark interests provoked the tragedy that devastated Southeast Asia and moved the world at Christmas 2004 1) blood wave On December 26, 2004, an earthquake measuring 9.1 on the Richter scale in northern Indonesia triggered…

Reader question – Claudio Soares Alencar, Rio de Janeiro, RJ He inherited the last name of the owner of these lands at the end of the 16th century: the Portuguese João Pereira de Souza Botafogo (1540?-1605). In Portugal, it was…

Yes. The human body is not prepared for the excess stress, wear and tear of overdoing bodybuilding – the so-called overtraining syndrome. This is a recurring problem in poorly informed people, according to coach Ricardo Branco. “People arrive at the…