Vincent, Grant, Eurico, Paulo, Francisco and Janice discuss Brazilian virology at the Brazilian Virology Society meeting in Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil.
http://www.virology.ws/2011/10/30/twiv-155-xxii-brazilian-national-virology-meeting/
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TWiV 155: XXII Brazilian National Virology Meeting
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Clearing The Air
In January, South America’s largest city officially banned outdoor advertising. Billboards, neon signs, bus-stop ads, even the Goodyear blimp - all were suddenly illegal. Folha de Sao Paulo reporter Vinicius Galvao describes seeing his city as though for the first time.
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Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future
Daniel Everett discusses the Pirahã and their language. The language has no words for numbers, no words for right and left and lacks any examples of recursion. This last trait forces us to rethink everything we thought we knew about language.
The discussion of the Pirahã language itself is excellent, but Everett’s discussion of why endangered languages need to be preserved is absolutely fascinating. His recommendations for preserving endangered languages include preserving natives speaker’s land and their heath. He also recommends studying and documenting these languages over a long period of time, as he has done with the Pirahã language.
From http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/
More information on this seminar is available at http://blog.longnow.org/2009/03/23/daniel-everett-endangered-languages-lost-knowledge-and-the-future/
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The Friday Podcast: How Four Drinking Buddies Saved Brazil
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-fake-money-saved-brazil
This is a story about how an economist and his buddies tricked the people of Brazil into saving the country from rampant inflation. They had a crazy, unlikely plan, and it worked.
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Favelas, AfroReggae & Brazil
Brazil’s musical group AfroReggae was born of the streets of Rio de Janiero’s hard-life shanytowns, or favelas.
Now, AfroReggae is trying to give back — to give inspiration, hope, pride and a path to youth surrounded by too much violence, drugs, and poverty.
It’s culture versus violence in the tough streets of Rio. We hear AfroReggae and explore Rio’s favelas.
http://www.onpointradio.org/2010/12/favelas-afroreggae-brazil
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BBC - Podcasts - Documentaries
How Crime Took on the World
Fri, 16 May 08
Duration: 24 mins
Cyber-crime is the fastest-growing sector of global-organised crime, worth about US$100 billion a year. Misha Glenny travels to Sao Paulo to find out why Brazil is the cyber-crime capital of the world.
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The Friday Podcast: How Four Drinking Buddies Saved Brazil : Planet Money : NPR
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How Fake Money Saved Brazil
This is a story about how an economist and his buddies tricked the people of Brazil into saving the country from rampant inflation. They had a crazy, unlikely plan, and it worked.
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Brazil Fools the World with Twitter Hoax
Cala Boca Galvão. Is it the new Lady Gaga single? A campaign to save an endangered South American bird? A runaway Twitter meme? The Berkman Center’s Ethan Zuckerman and IMPRENSA editor Igor Ribeiro explain.
http://www.onthemedia.org/episodes/2010/06/18/segments/156254
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Apanhei-te Cavaquinho
A Choro classic played by William Beuche and Jake Rekedal.
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