Alberto Santos-Dumont: The Brazilian Aviation Pioneer
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 29, 2022
The Wright brothers are generally considered to be the inventors of flight, but in Brazil, it is their son of the soil Alberto Santos-Dumont...
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Guarapari’s Radioactive Beaches
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 17, 2021
About 50 km south of Vitória, the state capital of EspÃrito Santo, in southeastern Brazil, lies the coastal town of Guarapari, a popular tou...
The Goiânia Radiological Accident
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2019
A radiation therapy unit in a hospital. Photo credit: Thomas Hecker/Shutterstock.com Radioactive isotopes have a very niche use in medicin...
The 4,000-Year-Old Termite Mounds The Size of Britain
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 21, 2018
In the seasonally dry, deciduous forests of northeastern Brazil, obscured by walls of thorny-scrubs, is a vast landscape made up of tens of ...
The Soccer Stadium Lying On Two Hemispheres
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2018
This Friday, two local Brazilian football clubs—Santos FC and Macapá—will face each other at the Estádio Milton Corrêa, a multi-purpose sta...
The Rise of Vertical Cemeteries
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 29, 2017
According to the Population Reference Bureau , there are approximately 101 billion dead people on earth with 7 billion more to join them wit...
Pomerode: The Most German Town In Brazil
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2017
About thirty kilometers to the north of Blumenau, a city in Brazil, lies the town of Pomerode, so named because its founders came from Pomer...
These Massive Tunnels Were Dug By Giant Sloths
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 15, 2017
Across northern South America, there are hundreds of colossal tunnels large enough for humans to walk through, but they weren’t dug by men. ...
Artist Creates Record-Breaking Mural For Rio Olympics
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2016
While athletes compete for various titles at Rio’s ongoing Olympic Games, one Brazilian graffiti artist Eduardo Kobra is attempting to enter...
Friedrich Bayer Bridge, Sao Paulo
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2016
The Friedrich Bayer Bridge is located in front of headquarters of the German multinational pharmaceutical company Bayer, in Sao Paulo, Brazi...
The Selaron Steps of Rio de Janeiro
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 27, 2016
Rio de Janeiro’s most famous street is actually a flight of stairs connecting the streets of Joaquim Silva and Pinto Martins in the Lapa and...
The Rio de Janeiro Cathedral
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 15, 2016
One of Rio de Janeiro’s most visible attraction is the Rio de Janeiro Cathedral or the Metropolitan Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro. This cone s...
The Hellish Gold Mines of Serra Pelada
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 4, 2016
In the early 1980s, Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado travelled to the mines of Serra Pelada, some 430 kilometers south of the mouth ...
Villagers Scrap a Living Out of Abandoned Diamond Mine in Brazil
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2016
Deep in the heart of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, along the banks of the Rio Jequitinhonha, rural miners explore the massive open pi...
The Museum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 21, 2015
The city of Rio de Janeiro has opened a new “experimental museum” called the Museum of Tomorrow devoted to exploring the possibilities of a ...
Fordlandia: A Modern Industrial Ruin in The Heart of Amazon
Anonymous
Nov 23, 2015
This photograph of men standing in shirtless bodies, surrounded by the long leaves of the jungle fauna, and a thatched hut behind, was captu...
The Anavilhanas Archipelago
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2015
The archipelago of Anavilhanas is located on the Rio Negro river, approximately 70 km upstream from Manaus, Brazil, at a place where the riv...
Encontro das Aguas - The Meeting of Waters
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 4, 2015
About 10 kilometers from the inland city of Manaus in northern Brazil, the black Rio Negro river, which flows through the city, meet the san...
Towns of Twins
Kaushik Patowary
May 6, 2015
The University of Texas estimates that 32 out of every 1,000 people in this world are a twin or 16 pairs in 1,000, which translates to 3 pe...
The Trans-Amazonian Highway: An Ecological Disaster
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 24, 2014
The Trans-Amazonian highway is a 5,000 kilometre road which cuts across the heart of the Amazon forest, spanning Brazil from the coastal cit...
