ILLUSTRATES Marcos de Lima In the heart of the Amazon Santo Daime is a spiritual doctrine founded in the 1920s, in Basel (AC), by rubber tapper Raimundo Irineu Serra. Called Mestre Irineu by his followers, he had his first contact…
(DaveAlan/iStock) This usually happens when we see a car speeding on a movie screen or television. The explanation is that the screen (both in movies and TV) “blinks”, that is, between one frame and another, it goes off for a…
They were created to differentiate repeated names – a common fact since the most ancient cultures. The first known surnames are patronymics – names that refer to the father: Simão Filho de Jonas, for example. This genre became widespread in…
»> The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), a bird of prey that, on average, flies at 160 km/h, but is capable of diving at over 320 km/h when chasing prey! The critter, found practically all over the world, is so fast…
»> This happens because the veins in the head do not have valves, responsible for pushing the blood upwards. Without this accessory, blood circulates more slowly in the region when we are upside down. But why then doesn’t the blood…
»> And yes! During digestion, oxen and cows produce a lot of methane, a gas that contributes 23% of the greenhouse effect and is 21 times more active than carbon dioxide in retaining the sun’s rays that warm the globe!…
The Mentos candies cause a small revolution in the bottle: in contact with the soda, the candies increase the amount of gas and cause the appearance of large bubbles, which tend to escape in the form of an explosive jet.…
»> Because it increases the volume of blood inside the veins and arteries. This happens due to a chemical characteristic of sodium chloride (table salt): it attracts water molecules to itself. When a person ingests too much salt, this substance…
(/) Reader Question – Gleice, Sao Paulo-SP He was the chief of the Roman soldiers who, on the way to the crucifixion of Jesus, pierced his chest with a spear (which, incidentally, is the translation of his Latin name, Longinus).…
(/) Jericho. She is in the West Bank, in the middle of the conflicts between Palestinians and Israelis, a region too tumultuous for an old lady. Mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments, the city has been destroyed and…