Sonic Cartographies
Cowboys Don’t Cry — They Drop the Bass: Eletronejo Explained
LED hats, big sub-bass, and rural nostalgia collide in Brazil’s wildest new sonic mutation.
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Coded Dreams
Teenagers Saw Portugal’s Forests Burn. So They Built a Six-Legged Robot to Replant Them.
After years of watching summers turn into firestorms, two students designed an autonomous hexapod built to survive the ashes—and seed the next forest.
Ancestral Echoes
Brazil Just Launched Its First Indigenous Federal University, the Most Radical Institution the Country Has Ever Built
Designed with Indigenous leaders and rooted in 270 languages, the new university rewires Brazil’s academic system from the ground up — and from the forest outward.
Random Urgencies
Game-Changer: Brazil Just Approved the World’s First Single-Dose Dengue Vaccine
As climate change fuels dengue’s spread, Brazil’s one-dose vaccine arrives like a political and scientific thunderclap.
Sonic Cartographies
Funk in the Museum: Language, Power, and the Future of Portuguese
The exhibition proves the obvious and still controversial truth: the future of Portuguese is being written in the bailes, not in Lisbon’s grammar books.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Alice Brill: The Human Eye of São Paulo’s Modern Dream
A quiet observer who turned São Paulo’s rush toward modernity into a study of humanity, light, and everyday grace.
Ancestral Echoes
Complexo Brasil at Gulbenkian: Where Beauty Refuses to Hide the Fire Beneath
A blockbuster show that refuses to let Portugal keep pretending Brazil is just colour, rhythm and saudade.
Ancestral Echoes
When Culture Becomes Contraband: Orixás Under Fire
When a drawing sparks a police raid and a woman is stabbed for practicing her faith, it’s clear: intolerance isn’t rising quietly — it’s arriving armed.
Random Urgencies
No One Wakes Up Safe in Iguatemi
Between 4 and 5 AM, twenty pistoleros raided a Guarani Kaiowá village. One man was executed. The country keeps calling it “conflict.” The community calls it what it is: survival against a state-backed land war.
Diaspora Aesthetics
Concrete Fever Dreams: Brazil Turned Brutalism Into a Public Weapon
Part protest, part climate science, part improvisation — Brazil’s Brutalism rewrote the rules using nothing but concrete and nerve.
Street Syntax
A Quilo: Revolution on a Scale
Born in a mineiro lunch rush, the “a quilo” buffet reshaped Brazil’s urban culture long before New York’s delis stumbled into a parallel version.
Coded Dreams
Cabo Verde Is Done Waiting for Silicon Valley to Validate It
A new wave of digital thinking centers local context, small businesses, and diaspora feedback loops — not imported tech fantasies.