What do you do when you lose something and can’t find it? A typical Brazilian sympathy is to invoke the number one employee of the Celestial Department of Lost and Found: São Longuinho. Just don’t forget, when the object magically…
With a physical examination performed by a doctor from the IML (Legal Medical Institute). The purpose is always to find traces that help prove that there was a material crime. “In Legal Medicine, the crimes in which the corpus delicti…
»> Among the slowest when it comes to having sex, the biggest candidate for the title is a beetle that couldn’t have a better name: love beetle… The little guy spends no less than 56 hours having sex, almost two…
(Playback/Playback) Biologically, for nothing. It may even be that this film, present at the entrance to the vaginal canal, helps to prevent genital infections in children, but nothing scientifically proven. The hymen appears at the beginning of the development of…
»> The champion in height is the Angel jump, in the south of Venezuela. There, the water of the Churún River plummets 979 meters from the top of the Auyan Tepui mountain — suggestively, “devil’s mountain”, in the dialect of…
(/) Greek mythology would say that he appears whenever the goddess Iris leaves a colored trail in the sky, to convey to men the messages of Zeus, the almighty one of Olympus. The scientific explanation is far less romantic. The…
»> Just three ingredients: iron, water and air. “Rust is the result of the reaction between iron and oxygen”, says chemist Jorge Masini, from USP. That is: when these two elements come together, they tend to unite to form a…
ILLUSTRATIONS Alexandre Jubran QUESTION Michel Marcelo Monteiro, Sao Paulo, SP It does not need to protect itself, as it is adapted to live with the current it produces. The eel has special muscle structures with cells called electrocytes, which convert…
The great secret of the condom production process is vulcanization, that is, a chemical reaction that increases the resistance of the rubber without making it lose its elasticity. As a matter of fact, if vulcanization did not exist, ultra-elastic condoms…
Virtually all the most important. After the end of World War II, hero comics began to lose appeal. Editors believed that performing a “sex change” on well-known brands would serve to attract female readers. At Marvel and DC publishers, the…