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Culture Buzz Wouldn’t you want to live here? This tree-lined street, nicknamed “green tunnel,” is located in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Culture Buzz Learn to speak the native language, and you just might get to stick around — trust me when I say it definitely beats the alternative. Or so suggests the latest ad for Brazil’s language school CCAA.
Politics Buzz Assistant secretary Ann Stock says Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will travel the world “to promote education, understanding and tolerance,” starting with a trip to Brazil next week.
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And this atrocious incident is hardly an isolated case. According to statistics, from 2003 to 2010, 452 indigenous people were murdered in Brazil, though the actual number could be much higher given the intimidation that keeps isolated tribes from coming forward.
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Is “visual pollution” a viable problem? Five years ago, São Paulo, Brazil, banned billboards and other visual advertising.
Culture Buzz Meet Emanoel and Jesus, conjoined twins recently born in Brazil that share the same body. They have individual heads, brains and spines, but since they otherwise use a single set of organs, they cannot be separated. Both mother and twins are doing fine and should be released from the hospital soon.
Wait for the 1:00 mark. The crash occurred at the Beto Carrero World theme park in south-east Brazil, but no worries — the biker didn't even report a fracture!
Culture Buzz His body does two full midair flips and is hurled more than 40 feet…but he's okay, folks! Recorded in Brazil.
Culture Buzz More effective than the threat of hideous diseases is the threat of responsibility. Olla Condoms in Brazil sent friend requests to single dudes from fictional love children. A sort of scared straight viral marketing campaign to get guys to wrap it up.
Sports Buzz Living life on the edge. A documentary by Zeppelin Filmes on Brazil's world longboarding championship in Teutonia, an insane downhill race where skaters often exceed 70 mph.
Culture Buzz This is something straight out of Rambo.
Straddling the boarder of Argentina and Brazil, Iguazu Falls is one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
An audience in Chapeco, Brazil, failed to catch a cover band dude as he attempted to crowd surf. Probably because he was “singing” Blur. (via dailypicksandflicks.com)
Music Buzz In case you missed his recent performance in Brazil, we thought you should know. And what better way than by paying homage to his entire career with glutton-inspired lyrics?
Celebrity Buzz Or is that Dog the Bounty Hunter cleverly disguised as an inflatable banana? From a recent show in Brazil. Sorry, those of you who came of age in the late '80s and early '90s…your icons are now human wreckage who rub your nose in mortality.
A 20-year-old Irish guy was arrested by Brazilian Feds at Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo after an X-ray revealed that he'd swallowed almost a kilo of coke. YUMMY! (via photoblog.msnbc.msn.com)
Celebrity Buzz Jim Carrey visited Christ The Redeemer Statue in Rio De Janeiro, where hundreds gathered to worship … Jim Carrey.
Culture Buzz Try Helvetica is a design blog that compares Brazil's many hand-painted signs with renderings of the same signs in Helvetica. Courtesy of design firm Noono.com.br. (via laughingsquid.com)
Brazil breaks the record for the world's tallest lego tower. Over 102 feet and 500,000 pieces!
Culture Buzz An ad agency in Brazil asked a group of youngsters the age-old question: What do you want to be when you grow up? Each kid was given a custom business card for their chosen future profession - like dinosaur hunter or ninja ghost super hero.
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