A little bit of everything

Nothing in the nature is so fast as the light. It travels near 300,000 km in just one second, sufficient to go around the Earth eight times. For us, right here on Earth , it is very fast but if we consider the universe and its extraordinary size , may light speed be so fast as we think? This interesting video simulates a trip through the solar system as if we have been sitting under a light photon that just left the sun. This is an incredible example of how the referentials can change our perspective. Text Revision : Fatima from Idées  www.idees.com.br

Many times simple ideas are a spark to great things, they might be for scientific discoveries or for personal meaning of life. In this TED's Ed presentation, Adam Savage from Mythbusters's tv program, talks about two spectacular examples of scientific discoveries that had been born from creative and intriguing questions that anyone could have made: the Earth circumference's calculus near 200 b.c. by Eratosthenes and the light speed measurement by Hippolyte Fizeau in 1849. Text Revision : Fatima from Idées  www.idees.com.br

When I heard 'romantic comedy' in general I imagine all the plot, the clichés and the final part. But Green Card movie , a 90's romantic comedy is a little different. Starred by Gérard Depardieu (as George) and Andie MacDowell (as Brontë) the movie tells us about the fake marriage between George and Brontë. The objective is for George to get the American Green Card and Bronte to rent an apartment. To deceive the imigration's officers they studied each other's life to pretend a marriage but they fell in love through the process. I liked specially the end because it's different from regular romantic comedies. Really it's an open end because the spectator doesn't know if the couple lives happily forever. A good tip to watch something light, fun but without clichés. Text Revision : Fatima from Idées  www.idees.com.br

About 60% of our body is made of water. Every child learns this in school but people forget this truth very fast, especially when they open the tap of the kitchen or rest room and water magically appears. We forget that for the water to come inside our home or office a huge chain of natural and artificial process must occur. Basically the natural process involves evaporation, rain, winds - called hydrological cycle - and artificial processes that involve water extraction, purification and distribution. The Hydrologic Cycle But this cycle has been broken. The water pollution, global warming, waste, corporations and very bad government management are destroying this such important natural resource. In 2010 an ONU resolution defined water as a right of human beings. This resolution put pressure on governments around the world to develop water projects for poorest people and taking care of water pollution. But a resolution isn’t sufficient to protect our water! Agricultura...

It is common for tourists in Brazil to go to places like Rio de Janeiro, Bahia (Northeast beaches) or the Amazon. Tourists and foreigners usually think Brazil is just a land of rainforests and paradisiac beaches but they don ´t suspect that there is a strong urban life in Brazil as in Europe or the USA. #169205655 / gettyimages.com The 2014 World Cup showed foreigners that Brazil is big and diverse. I ´d like to talk about one of this exciting urban places: São Paulo city. São Paulo is the home of many nationalities, mainly Italians, that in the XIX century came to work on coffee farms in the countryside. But not just Italians adopted São Paulo as a home, the Japanese, the Germans, the Dutch and other people from all around the world became São Paulo ´s citizens. This miscegenation changed the city way. Today São Paulo is Brazil ´s capital of gastronomy, economy, culture and diversity (pay attention: Brazil ´s official capital is Brasília, not São Paulo or Buenos Aires,...

There is a consensus that The Beatles are musically geniuses. They had a big success for all the period that the band existed with songs that make us shake or think. The Beatles did a lot of musical experiments such as using indian instruments or creating fake bands (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band). Just pay attention to The Beatles songs and lyrics and you are going to make a trip through the best in music. But The Beatles geniousity isn´t just enclosed into the room of adults. They did a great job for children and babies with the animation Yellow Submarine. Yellow Submarine cover Yellow Submarine is a musical that goes into the psicodelly and great songs. The animation was released in 1968 and used techniques like Rotoscoping (created by Walt Disney) and photography animation that put the spectator inside a psicodelic 60´s/70 's enviroment. The colors, songs and characters attract children´s attention, driving them into a world of dreams. For me one o...

A classic "my first post".