(UNICAMP - 2019 - 1ª FASE)
Indigenous people in Brazil seek out cities, end up in slums
RIO DE JANEIRO – The dancers shake seed-filled maracas and raise their voices in song, conjuring an ancient spirit that vibrates above the traffic roaring from a nearby expressway and the...
(UNICAMP - 2019 - 1ª FASE)
Genetic Fortune-Telling
One day, babies will get DNA report cards at birth. These reports will offer predictions about their chances of suffering a heart attack or cancer, of getting hooked on tobacco, and of being smarter than average. Though the new DNA tests...
(UNICAMP - 2019 - 1ª FASE)
Love is not all
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love is not all: It is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor cl...
(UNICAMP - 2019 - 1ª FASE)
‘Yes, I’m Italian – but I’m not loud, I don’t gesticulate and I’m not good with pizza’
Elena Ferrante
I love my country, but I have no patriotic spirit and no national pride. What’s more, I digest pizza poorly,...
(UNICAMP - 2019 - 1ª FASE)
We raise girls to cater to the fragile egos of men. We teach girls do shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We tell girls ‘You can have ambition, but not too much’. ‘You should aim to be successful, but not too successful...
(UNICAMP - 2019 - 1ª FASE)
Largest prime number discovered: with more than 23m digits
Known simply as M77232917, the figure is arrived at by calculating two to the power of 77,232,917 and subtracting one, leaving a gargantuan string of 23,249,425 digits. The result is nearly one million...
(UNICAMP - 2019 - 1ª fase)
Touching thermal-paper receipts could extend BPA retention in the body
When people handle receipts printed on thermal paper containing the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A (BPA), the toxic chemical could linger in the body for a week or more. Jonathan W. Mart...