Although it has been banned in Brazil since 1998, the practice continues underground. All you need is a fighting breed of roosters, the ring (a kind of ring), the judge and the punters. The tradition is old: the first records,…
ILLUSTRATES Pablo Mayer The scam of offering drug-laced drinks to knock someone out before robbing or raping them was not named after the fairy tale. The reference was the TV frame «Good Night, Cinderella»presented by Silvio Santos in the 1970s.…
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ILLUSTRATES Aluisio Cervelle Santos 1) Albert Fish (1870-1936) was born in Washington DC in 1870, the son of a boat captain on the Potomac River. After his father’s death, he stayed until the age of 9 in an ultra-strict orphanage,…
Walrus Reader question – Cosme da Rocha Melo Júnior, Rio Branco, AC Although all are mammals and are connected to water, they have some physical characteristics that differentiate them. The confusion is understandable: lion and fur seal have so many…
It may even sound scary, but mathematically, it has no limit. In practice, the largest recorded earthquake happened in Chile, in 1960, and reached 9.5 degrees in this measurement. The quake was caused by contact between tectonic plates along 965…
Yes. The oldest volcano ever found, even today, is Brazilian. “A volcano usually forms in regions where tectonic plates meet. These plates are in the most superficial layer of the Earth, which is always in motion, causing the separation of…
(Marcelo Meneses/) ILLUSTRATES Marcelo Meneses A survey by the Science Museum in London concluded that men lie more than women. At least in England, they tell three fibs a day, on average, against two of them. In the USA, a…
– (Otavio Silveira/) click-drinkParisian Louise Delage, 25, has become one of France’s coolest influencers. Photos of her on the beach and at parties were the envy, but no one noticed that in all 150 posts, she had a drink in…
animals serve as guinea pigs for testing drugs, vaccines, cosmetics and even cleaning products that can be done in different ways. Guinea pigs, mice, rabbits and monkeys are the animals most used by scientists, but in some cases, dogs, pigs…