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BRRRAZIL!
Tourist Spotting
As is traditional in Brazil, everyone across the country will be dressed up very elegantly in white tonight to usher in the New Year.
Of course I didn’t know this, so I will be wearing one of two very bright colorful dresses, the only things I have that I haven’t dripped olive oil or chocolate on yet.
Happy New Year! I hope 2012 is full of family and long-anticipated travels for everyone!
Things I will need to get used to in Brazil
- The surface area of my butt exposed in a Brazilian bikini is roughly the same size as the rest of my bikini. This is despite Thiago’s efforts to find me a bikini bottom with the most coverage available in Brazil for Christmas. I am now wearing a Brazilian “Grande” sized bikini bottom which despite being a US / Euro Medium makes me feel like a baby whale. (more…)
Feliz Natal!
Happy Christmas from Guaecà Beach in Brazil!
I’ve been out here in São Paolo for a while and keep meaning to write about it… we are together at last! For a month more at least. I love the culture out here — it’s beautiful. I love the sounds of Brazilian Portuguese all around me. I love his family so much. I’m really blessed to be out here.
So we had Christmas dinner last night (Christmas Eve) around 10:30 pm and gave out gifts at midnight as is the custom. There are so many amazing customs here I keep meaning to write about and keep forgetting!!
Brazil reminds me a lot of Cape Town. From what I’m hearing Rio is especially similar, and the beaches, though I haven’t been out there yet. I feel very at home in these surroundings and with such warm and affectionate people. My Portuguese is coming along slowly, but enough to get the gist of half the conversations going on around me.
Well I guess we’d better get back to eating and sleeping Christmas away — later alligators!
Belize? P-lease!
THIS image exactly captures why I want to go back to Belize. And not only go back but live there. Imagine? Actually living there!? Waking up every single day to yet another gloriously hot sunshiny sky thinking, “What’s uuuup! Wow I’m in BELIZE!!! What am I doing here? Oh right, I LIVE HERE! EEEEEE!!!” So crazy. I’ve imagined it for years so eventually its going to happen. I’ll find this very island and pitch a tent on it and sleep at least one night. Uhhhhhhh…………………
And then kayak back to my ordinary every day life on a bigger island somewhere in belize. Now that doesn’t sound too shabby.
Dear Mr Claus
Math Genius Solves 100 Year Old Problem, Then Refuses Million Dollar Prize
Techland: …His reward? One million dollars and the Fields Medal, or the math world’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. But the private Perelman shrugged off the invite to accept the cash, saying that the knowledge he gained from proving the conjecture was more valuable than any monetary gain.
“Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million?” he told Komsomolskaya Pravda, a daily Russian newspaper.
Amateur Astrophotographer Creates Largest True-Color Night Sky Panorama
WOW! What an adventure! What an achievement!!!
Gizmodo.com: One day, Nick Risinger, a 28-year-old marketing director from Seattle, felt like he needed a change. So he quit his job, packed up six professional astronomical cameras, and hiked 60,000 miles through western United States and South Africa, taking 37,000 color pictures of the night sky.
The result? This 5000-megapixel, interactive, zoomable map showing our full Milky Way galaxy, stars, planets, and the nebulae surrounding it. It’s the largest-ever, true-color, 360 degree panorama of the heavens—all created by this first-time astrophotographer.
Get Your Tax Receipt
This is CRAZY
Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years, so too has the suburban way of life become embedded in the American consciousness.
The End of Suburbia is available for download at Amazon.com for only $2.99.
Runtime: 1 hour 18 minutes
Mom Punishes Kids By Selling Their Toys on eBay
Beyblade is a Japanese Manga series that has become popular among American children due to the branded spinning top toys associated with the cartoon. The toys come with a little plastic arena to spin around on, and the object of the game is to knock the other guy’s spinning top out of the arena. But what if you want to have a truly epic battle?
A couple of kids expanded their playing field by using the family bathtub as an arena. Here’s the problem: When the toys spun, their metal bottoms tore up the enamel on the tub. When mom got a $500 repair estimate, she decided to make the kids pay by giving up their allowance and selling all their toys on eBay. Above is a photo of the devastated children putting their Beyblade toys up for auction.
And then 4chan, the notoriously anarchic and prank-fueled message board, found the auction and decided to have a little fun with it.
Zinc speeds recovery from colds
The Cochrane Systematic Review of 15 trials (1,360 people), released this month, states:
“We found that zinc (lozenges or syrup) is beneficial in reducing the duration and severity of the common cold in healthy people, when taken within 24 hours of onset of symptoms. People taking zinc are also less likely to have persistence of their cold symptoms beyond seven days of treatment. Zinc supplementation for at least five months reduces incidence, school absenteeism and prescription of antibiotics for children with the common cold.”
via healthspan
Help Save Japan’s Dolphins!
More than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are being slaughtered each year and their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food in Japan, often times labeled as whale meat. Send a letter to President Obama, Vice President Biden and Japanese Ambassador to the United States Ichiro Fujisaki urging them to address this issue »
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