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Meteoro Brasil
''Meteoro Brasil'' is a Brazilian YouTube channel created by the journalists Álvaro Borba and Ana Lesnowski. Borba and Lesnowski began their YouTube channel, ''Meteoro Brasil'', as an entertainment channel in 2017. Content Meteoro Brasil's videos include pop culture, science and philosophy. This YouTube channel also discusses societal attitudes to misinformation. History On April 9, 2017, ''Meteoro Brasil'' was created on YouTube to provide viewers with culture and entertainment about science, philosophy and pop culture. After the 2018 Brazilian presidential election this channel was identified with a new wave of Brazilian liberal or left-wing channels and YouTubers, such as Sabrina Fernandes, Felipe Neto, Lilia Schwarcz, Henry Bugalho Henry Alfred Bugalho (born October 2, 1980), known simply as Henry Bugalho, is a Brazilian YouTube creator, writer, translator and philosopher. Bugalho is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Education Bugalho studied Philosophy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 States of Brazil, states and the Federal District (Brazil), Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese language, Portuguese as an List of territorial entities where Portuguese is an official language, official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most Multiculturalism, multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass Immigration to Brazil, immigration from around the world; and the most populous Catholic Church by country, Roman Catholic-majority country. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a Coastline of Brazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Culture
Pop or POP may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Music * Pop music, a musical genre Artists * POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade * Pop!, a UK pop group * Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band Albums * Pop (Gas album), ''Pop'' (Gas album) * Pop (Joachim Witt album), ''Pop'' (Joachim Witt album) * Pop (Mao Abe album), ''Pop'' (Mao Abe album) * Pop (Same Difference album), ''Pop'' (Same Difference album) * Pop (Tones on Tail album), ''Pop'' (Tones on Tail album) * Pop (U2 album), ''Pop'' (U2 album) * ''Pop'', an album by Topi Sorsakoski and Agents * ''P.O.P'', The Mad Capsule Markets album * ''Pop! The First 20 Hits'', an album by English duo Erasure Songs * Pop (song), "Pop" (song), by 'N Sync * "Pop", a song by A.R. Kane * "Pop", a song by Ari Lennox from ''Shea Butter Baby'' * "Pop", a song by La Oreja de Van Gogh from ''El viaje de Copperpot'' * "Pop! (song), Pop!", a song by Nayeon from ''Im Nayeon (EP), Im Nayeon'' Periodicals * Pop (fashion m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who brought Greek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philosophy
Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some sources claim the term was coined by Pythagoras ( BCE), although this theory is disputed by some. Philosophical methods include questioning, critical discussion, rational argument, and systematic presentation. in . Historically, ''philosophy'' encompassed all bodies of knowledge and a practitioner was known as a ''philosopher''."The English word "philosophy" is first attested to , meaning "knowledge, body of knowledge." "natural philosophy," which began as a discipline in ancient India and Ancient Greece, encompasses astronomy, medicine, and physics. For example, Newton's 1687 ''Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy'' later became classified as a book of physics. In the 19th century, the growth of modern research universiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Misinformation
Misinformation is incorrect or misleading information. It differs from disinformation, which is ''deliberately'' deceptive. Rumors are information not attributed to any particular source, and so are unreliable and often unverified, but can turn out to be either true or false. Even if later retracted, misinformation can continue to influence actions and memory. People may be more prone to believe misinformation because they are emotionally connected to what they are listening to or are reading. The role of social media has made information readily available to us at anytime, and it connects vast groups of people along with their information at one time. Advances in technology has impacted the way we communicate information and the way misinformation is spread. Misinformation has impacts on our societies' ability to receive information which then influences our communities, politics, and medical field. History Early examples include the insults and smears spread among political rival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the List of most visited websites, second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's Google AdSens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Brazilian General Election
General elections were held in Brazil on 7 October 2018 to elect the president, National Congress and state governors. As no candidate in the presidential election received more than 50% of the vote in the first round, a runoff round was held on 28 October. The election occurred during a tumultuous time in Brazilian politics. Narrowly re-elected in 2014,Brazil keen to open trade talks with UK Financial Times, 22 July 2016 President of the centre-left Workers’ Party (PT), which had dominated Brazilian politics since |
Sabrina Fernandes
Sabrina may refer to: * Sabrina (given name), a feminine given name, including a list of persons and fictional characters with the name People * Sabrina (actress), stage name of Norma Ann Sykes (1936–2016), a British glamour model and actress * Sabrina (Filipino singer) (born 1989) * Sabrina (Greek singer) (born 1969) * Sabrina (Portuguese singer) (born 1982) * Sabrina Salerno (born 1968), Italian singer also mononymously known as Sabrina Film and television * ''Sabrina'' (1954 film), starring Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, and William Holden * ''Sabrina'' (1995 film), a remake starring Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, and Greg Kinnear * ''Sabrina'' (2018 film), an Indonesian horror film * several media properties featuring Sabrina the Teenage Witch * ''Sabrina'' (TV series), a Mexican show on the Telehit network, circa 2005 * ''Sabrina'' (Bangladeshi TV series), a streaming series Music * ''Sabrina'' (album), an album by Sabrina * "Sabrina", a song by Einstürzend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felipe Neto
Felipe Neto Rodrigues Vieira (born January 21, 1988) is a Brazilian YouTuber, businessman, actor, comedian, writer and philanthropist, currently having 44.7 million subscribers and more than fifteen billion accumulated views, he is considered the greatest YouTuber from Brazil, just behind the channel Você Sabia?. He is also the brother of YouTuber Luccas Neto. Currently, his videos focus on general entertainment. Felipe is the founder of Paramaker, a business of network inside of YouTube, which owns channels like Parafernalha and IGN Brasil Network, managing approximately channels, as an effort to professionalize the online video market in Brazil. He sold the company in 2015 to focus on his YouTube channel. Felipe has also engaged in other business activities as he and his brother created "Neto's", a food kiosk that sold "coxinhas", a popular Brazilian food. The brothers ended the project after Felipe became vegetarian. In 2020, he was included on ''Time''s list of the 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz is a Brazilian historian and anthropologist. She is a doctor in social anthropology at the University of São Paulo, full professor at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas in the same institution, and visiting professor (Global Scholar) at Princeton University. Her main fields of study are anthropology and history of 19th-century Brazil, focusing on the Brazilian Empire, social identity, slavery and race relations between White and Afro-Brazilian peoples. Schwarcz is Jewish. In 1986, she co-founded the Companhia das Letras publishing house with her husband Luis Schwarcz. She is a curator for the São Paulo Museum of Art, and writes a column at the news website . Bibliography * ''Retrato em branco e negro: jornais, escravos e cidadãos em São Paulo no fim do século XIX''. Companhia das Letras, 1987. * * (English edition: ) * As Barbas do Imperador (English edition:''The Emperor's Beard: Dom Pedro II and His Tropical Monarchy in B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Bugalho
Henry Alfred Bugalho (born October 2, 1980), known simply as Henry Bugalho, is a Brazilian YouTube creator, writer, translator and philosopher. Bugalho is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Education Bugalho studied Philosophy at the Federal University of Paraná, with emphasis in Aesthetics. Career As a writer Prior to his YouTube career, Henry Bugalho writes several books such as ''Guia de Nova York para Mãos-de-Vaca'' (New York City, New York Guide for the Tight-fisted), on which he worked together with his wife, Denise Nappi. This work was featured in the Brazilian newspaper ''O Globo''. He also authored ''The Parallel Life of Your Dog'', , and two collections of short stories. YouTube Bugalho created his YouTube channel on 30 november 2006. In 2018, Henry expressed his opposition to the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and right wing essayist Olavo de Carvalho. His YouTube channel, has reached about 593,000 subscribers. After the 2018 Brazilian general el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirula (YouTuber)
Paulo Miranda Nascimento (born August 14, 1981), also known as Pirula or Pirulla, is a Brazilian paleontologist, YouTuber, zoologist, lecturer and a scientific disseminator. Pirula is a bachelor of Biology by Mackenzie Presbyterian University and, he is master and PhD in Zoology by University of São Paulo. His PhD thesis is named "Revision of the Baurusuchidae family and its phylogenetic affinities within Mesoeucrocodylia". Paulo has also been a professor of evolution and palaeontology in colleges and schools. Pirula created his YouTube channel in 2006, named ''Canal do Pirulla'', in which he discusses science, environment, religion and politics, in long and detailed videos. Pirula has been awarded the Social Media Education Influencer Award in the sixth edition of the Shorty Awards, in 2014. In 2016, together with Laranjeira, Simões, Estevão and other Brazilian social media influencers, Pirula founded another YouTube channel, Bláblálogia, also focused in communicating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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