Where Brazilians Love to Shop (Hint: Not in Brazil)

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Where Brazilians Love to Shop (Hint: Not in Brazil)
Where Brazilians Love to Shop (Hint: Not in Brazil)
Anyone who’s ever gone on vacation in a country with cheap prices has heard some variation of the following advice: go with your suitcases empty. Buy everything there and then bring it all back. Favorable exchange rates and developing economies can make everything cheap, much cheaper than you’d find back home. But there’s a strange way it’s playing out in Brazil. Rather than heading to Cambodia, China, or Bangladesh where many low-cost consumer goods are made, young Brazilians are heading to the United States. …

The bacterial zoo living on your skin

The bacterial zoo living on your skin
The bacterial zoo living on your skin
Your butt microbes have more in common with mine than they do with your elbow microbes.

The Tubercular Hominid

The Tubercular Hominid
The Tubercular Hominid
New branches on the tree of life have just turned up in Africa. Some are cuter than others. In Madagascar, our primate family was enlarged by two adorable species of mouse lemurs. Meanwhile, other scientists made an uglier discovery in the small country of Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa. They found a surprising diversity […]