The sambista Neguinho da Beija-Flor, 72, says that he still regretted from the sofa at home, last Sunday (3), the draw between Flamengo and Fluminense, which resulted in the loss of the Campeonato Carioca to the team directed by Paulo Sousa, when he was surprised to change the channel and hear coach Abel Ferreira, from … Read more
English football will have an independent regulator, with a reinforced “fitness test” for owners and directors ahead of the next UK general election, according to plans laid out by Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries. The plan, outlined in a letter from Dorries to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and seen by the Financial Times, will put the … Read more
For as long as there has been marine life, there has been marine snow—an incessant drizzle of debris and dead beings that descend from the surface to the depths of the sea. The snow starts in the form of specks, which aggregate to form dense flakes that gradually sink, passing through the mouths (and the … Read more
The metaverse may be a reality more present in people’s daily lives faster in Brazil than in regions such as the United States and Europe, said Accenture executives citing results of a survey carried out by the consultancy. “We are betting that it will happen in Brazil two, five years from now,” said Paulo Ossamu, … Read more
Quoted to preside over Petrobras, the special secretary for the reduction of bureaucracy at the Ministry of Economy, Caio Mario Paes de Andrade, is suspected of using the public machine to search a company’s financial data. In a process obtained by Sheet, Conclusiva Empreendimento e Participações states that the folder accessed information about the company … Read more
Belgian poet Marcel Broodthaers declared, at the age of 40, that he was an artist – and not without a good dose of irony. He took to his first exhibition, in 1964, a series of unsold copies of his last book, “Pense-Bête”, buried in plaster. It is not possible to read them beyond the cover, … Read more
It is a mistake to think that politics dominates attention on social media. According to data science researcher and professor Fabio Malini, this place is actually for entertainment. Coordinator of the Laboratory of Studies on Image and Cyberculture (Labic) at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (Ufes), Malini gives the example of gossip profiles in … Read more
The group stage of the Copa Libertadores da América, which will start this Tuesday (5), has eight teams from Brazil. The number equals the record set in 2017 and reinforces the possibility of the country extending the hegemony it has been enjoying in South American club football. The winners of the last three editions of … Read more