Category: Curiosidades
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Risks of Facial Recognition Technologies
Smile! Your face is not only being filmed, but also classified, compared, and identified, mainly by public security agencies. Most of the time without your knowledge. That’s what a study by the Federal Public Defender’s Office (DPU) in partnership with the Center for Studies on Security and Citizenship (CESeC), an academic institution linked to Candido…
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Finland Ranked as the Happiest Country in the World for the Fifth Consecutive Year
For the fifth consecutive year, Finland has been named the happiest country in the world, according to the latest World Happiness Report released this Thursday (20) by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. The annual report, which ranks countries based on factors such as income, social support, life expectancy, freedom to make life choices,…
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Os brasileiros que vivem nos Estados Unidos já sabem que 17 de março é o dia de São Patrício, também carinhosamente conhecido como St. Paddy’s Day. É o único dia do ano em que todos podem se considerar um pouquinho irlandeses – senão por direito, mas pelo menos em espírito. St. Patrick é o padroeiro…
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Trick or Treat?
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Halloween, the scariest festival of the year, is celebrated in various parts of the world today, October 31, which is also the eve of “All Saints’ Day” in the Christian calendar. Halloween is a shortening of “All Hallows’ Eve” or “All Saints’ Eve.” Although of Christian origin, in much of Europe and most of North…
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Indigenous Peoples: The Living Soul of the Past That Can Illuminate the Future!
The indigenous peoples of Brazil comprise a large number of different ethnic groups that have inhabited the country for millennia before the beginning of Portuguese colonization, which started in the 16th century, being part of the larger group of Amerindian peoples. At the time of the Portuguese arrival in Brazil, the native peoples consisted of…
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The 7 Levels of Financial Freedom
The millionaire Grant Sabatier, one of the leading voices and one of the greatest success stories of the FIRE movement – an acronym for “Financial Independence, Retire Early” – created a classification to measure people’s level of financial freedom. There are 7 categories, starting with recognizing one’s financial situation and ending in abundant wealth. Sabatier,…
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Prepare your coats and shovel. Winter may be very cold
Estamos em agosto ainda, então para que falar de inverno? Se você não reparou, as lojas de departamento já estão cheias de produtos de Halloween, Thanksgiving e até Natal. Uma lembrança de que os dias de sol e calor estão chegando ao fim e, segundo a tradicional previsão do Farm’s Almanac, o inverno, que deve ser bastante rigoroso…
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Origin of Brazilian Popular Expressions – Part I
The stories behind “pagar o pato”, “puxar o saco”, “pão-duro” and other common terms in spoken Portuguese in Brazil. If you think that everyday terms like “pagar o pato” and “puxar o saco” are modern inventions, you are very mistaken: most of these sayings are at least a century old, with several dating back to…
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Blended in the Crowd
“The man of the twentieth century does the following: Isolates himself in the midst of the crowd. Feels loneliness. Living with others around. How? I don’t know, he only knows one word by heart: ‘I’ And in his building Full of residents….a hundred, two hundred He finds it difficult To leave his apartment And say:…
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After all, who are we, the Brazilians?
At first glance, the answer to this question seems easy: we are the product of the miscegenation between Portuguese colonizers, the indigenous people who lived in Brazil, and Africans brought as slave labor, in addition to immigrants who arrived between the 19th and 20th centuries – such as Germans, Italians, and Japanese. So far, so…