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One of Australia's most famous beaches at Byron Bay is disappearing, and storms aren't to blame. So what's the problem?
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How triangles shrank France and the first modern map | Map Men
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Why China's largest volcano is so unusual
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Why Thailand's geography breeds instability
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How geography once turned the Sahara green
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What misconceptions would you like to clear up about your country/the country you live in?
Preceded by this post for all countries, this post for poor countries and this post for (overtly) authoritarian countries. I'm Brazilian so I get to correct pretty silly stuff: Brazil is a big...
Preceded by this post for all countries, this post for poor countries and this post for (overtly) authoritarian countries.
I'm Brazilian so I get to correct pretty silly stuff:
Brazil is a big place and the climate isn't homogeneous.
People like soccer here and many love it (some are reactionary and fight over games, as always) but it's not as all consuming as some people seem to think.
No, we aren't all extroverts, party animals, social butterflies, whatever, although I do feel the "Overton window" here on social things is more extraverted than in the US/West (and Japan and South Korea) in general.
We don't all listen to samba. While people here most often listen to pagode, sertanejo and Funk (moderately controversial music genre, though not really for substantive reasons) which are generally (keyword, obviously many songs in these genres are serious) lighthearted/for entertainment, we listen to serious or relaxed music too, mainly in rap, because we are normal.
I honestly can't really think of any misconceptions that aren't half-beaten to death about here.
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Meet Oklo, the Earth’s two-billion-year-old only known natural nuclear reactor
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Clear signs that the Grímsvötn volcano on Iceland is getting ready to erupt again – authorities have recently raised the threat level for the volcano
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From lava to water: A new era at Kīlauea
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Is the most northern part of Iceland still there?
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Android is now the world’s largest earthquake detection network
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The African continent is very slowly peeling apart. Scientists say a new ocean is being born.
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Colorado is not a rectangle, it’s not even a quadrilateral, in fact it is a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon
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MAPfrappe
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Iceland hit by thousands of quakes and threat of volcanic eruption – the island nation has experienced increased seismic activity in the past month
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New data indicates the Mississippi Delta is on borrowed time
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US Geological Survey volcano news
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Why scientists fall for precariously balanced rocks
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Taal volcano spews lava, ash as fears of 'hazardous eruption' persist in the Philippines
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New South Wales and Victoria just jumped 1.8 metres north
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Three studies describe different parts of the 2018 Kīlauea caldera collapse
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Planetocopia!
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The drowned lands of the Wallkill
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The 160-mile-long Garlock fault in California has begun moving for the first time on record; has the potential of producing a magnitude eight earthquake
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As the Veslemannen mountain collapses in Norway, local residents celebrate
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The family that shrank France | Map Men
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Many properties in rural Sweden are simply abandoned as more people move to the towns and cities
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The West seems unaware that Africa’s future is urban
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Here’s what the heat island looks like in east coast cities
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How a 'perfect storm' cut off water to this Colorado town
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Watch the Ridgecrest earthquake shatter the desert floor in stunning before-and-after images
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Researchers in Norway have found a freshwater pond on the seabed outside the country's western coast
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Before the shaking starts: Living in the shadow of Utah’s next big earthquake
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NASA maps surface changes from California quakes
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How this border transformed a subcontinent | India & Pakistan
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In a town shaped by water, the river is winning
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The real life landscapes of Fallout 1, Fallout 2, and Fallout: New Vegas
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Why Plymouth has a population of zero, despite being the de jure capital of Montserrat
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Can you spot a map trap? | Map Men
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Louisiana’s disappearing coast - The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion.
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Where does London stop? | Unfinished London
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Scientists lay out new plan to save the Darling River
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Mini Stories: Volume 6
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What is Federal land?
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Geologists show Tasmania and the Grand Canyon were connected on ancient supercontinent
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Greece's geography problem
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'The sea is ours': Landlocked Bolivia hopes court will reopen path to Pacific
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Water security: Iraq’s upstream vulnerabilities
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Can we terraform the Sahara to stop climate change?
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