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The Discovery Company is teaming up with one of the most notorious anti-environmentalists of the day, Sara Palin. Obviously a match made in...

There really is no customer service to speak of in Brazil. Customers expect to be treated like crap and organizations are more than happy t...

Traffic in São Paulo is not bad, it would have to improve by a factor of 1000 in order to be classified simply as bad. There are two major t...

Are you disappointed that your idyllic beach vacation might cut into your shopping time? I have the perfect solution for your woes: Floria...

Chocolate starts as a yellowish fruit about twice the size of a papaya. The fruit grows pretty much anywhere on the tree, any spot on the ...

There are things about Portuguese that bother me. First, it's chauvinistic, if you have a group of 10 thousand women and one man, the gr...

Part of this is a true story, I'll tell you which part at the end. Mr. Keller is a successful television executive who is proud of his S...

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Porto Alegre is a city of a million and a half inhabitants that has managed to keep all the charms and customs of a small town. Every weeken...

When you buy a jar of cashews do you know what you are buying? Is it a nut? Ever wonder where cashews come from? From the cashew fruit. The ...

Game: how many OSHA violations can you find? I looked out of the window of my mother's apartment and saw two men in the process of paint...

Brazilians patented a new method of canning food products that does not require a can opener. The can has a removable lid, which is held in...

Why were there no theaters in Egypt of the Pharaohs? My previous post started with the statement that the stage has been part of human civil...

With one major exception, the stage has always been part of human civilizations. We have always had a need to tell stories. Imagine a cavema...

Here's something you don't see every day. It's a chocolate strawberry pizza topped with a scoop of ice cream. It looked like t...