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Editors: Lara Mizne, Manuela Cerdeira and Alexa Cordeiro

Latest Issue - "Celebrations and Festivities"

The Craziest Brazilian Superstitions Around the World Cup By: A. Thiollier
How Does the World Cup Choose its Host Countries? By: B. Sapoznik
A new beginning? By: A. Hemnani
The Origin of Santa Claus By: C. Paixão

October Issue - "Halloween"

The Scary Costs of Halloween By: O. Lotufo
The Origin of Halloween By: A. Hemnani
How Scary is Too Scary? By: A. Thiollier
Halloween and the Economy By: B. Sapoznik
Why You Should Fear Crabs By: B. Mizne
The Return of the Great 'Clown Craze' By: C. Paixão

September Issue - "The Butterfly Effect"

The Bullet that Ended 70 Million Lives By: B. Sapoznik
The Butterfly Effect: Science or Fate? By: A. Thiollier
How a Sandwich Led to the Great War By: A. Hemnani
The Butterfly Effect in Sustainability: Why environmental issues can be so hard to predict By: S. Costa Franco
The Butterfly Effect: The Chaos Theory By: C. Paixão
Happy Employees, Engaging Clients and Proud Stakeholders: The Butterfly Effect in Business By: B. Schwartzman Lucio

June Issue - "An Open Letter to the Future"

Are Cinemas a Thing of the Past? By: O. Lotufo
Are Our Efforts Enough? By: A. Thiollier
How Could Work Change in the Future? By: R. Mautner
Creating a Sustainable Earth By: B. Sapoznik
The Future of Books By: A. Hemnani
CGI Influencers - How Far is Too Far? By: A. Silva Hofstadler
Why Schools Need More Electrical Outlets By: D. Westphalen
Managing a Pandemic By: B. Schwartzman Lucio
Longevity By: A. Cordeiro
Preventing the Spread: The COVID-19 Pandemic By: C. Paixão

May Issue - "Mental Health"

Teens and Their Never-Ending Problems By: A. Hemnani
Go Outside and Hug a Tree By: B. Mizne
The Biggest Drug Crisis of the Past Century: Opioids By: L. Mizne
The History of Mental Illness By: A. Thiollier
How do Videogames Affect Teenagers' Mental Health By: B. Sapoznik
Our Brain and Why We Get Different Symptoms for Anxiety By: A. Cordeiro
The Past and Present of Mental Health Treatments By: S. Costa Franco
Health Effects of Substance Abuse in Teens By: C. Paixão
The Mental Health Crisis Among Children and Teens By: B. Schwartzman Lucio

April Issue - "The Hill We Climb"

Why We're Scared of Books By: B. Mizne
Are There More Doors or Wheels in the World? By: H. Esteves
The Hill We Climb: Segregation and Discrimination in America By: A. Cordeiro
The Hill Hamilton Climbed By: A. Thiollier
How Literature has Helped Shape the World By: S. Lawrence Bueno
Will the Last Generation's Hills be this Generation's Mountains? By: A. Hemnani
"We've Learned that Quiet Isn't Always Peace": What History has Taught Us By: B. Lucio
Who is Amanda Gorman? By: C. Paixão
An Introduction to Poetry By: S. Costa Franco
How is Our World Today Different From the Past? By: B. Sapoznik

March Issue - "Core Memories"

The Deadly Spanish Flu... Not so Different From COVID-19? By: M. Cerdeira
How do Core Memories Shape Our Personalities? By: A. Cordeiro
The Future of In-Person Offices By: O. Lotufo
Arctic Apples and CRISPR: How Genetic Engineering is Changing our Present and Future By: L. Mizne
Look Up! What do You See in the Sky at Night? By: M. Cestero
Why do We Remember Certain Things But Forget Others? By: A. Hemnani
Common Misconceptions We Have About Our Memories By: S. Costa Franco
How do Emotions Affect Our Memories? By: A. Thiollier
The Mandela Effect: How Does it Work? By: R. Mautner
The Science Behind Memories By: B. Sapoznik
Lyophilization: How did Food Technology Take Astronauts to Space By: B. Lucio
Genocide and Persecution - An Event that Shall Never be Forgotten By: S. Lawrence Bueno
Yemen: The Worst Humanitarian Crisis in History By: C. Paixão
What are Core Memories: A Brief Introduction By: C. Chang

December Issue - "The Road Not Taken"

A World Without Internet By: A. Thiollier
Harry Potter and the Elder Wand: How do Simple Changes in Plot Shape who we Become? By: A. Hemnani
Could the Cuban Missile Crisis have Led to World War III? By: B. Sapoznik
What if the Japanese had Never Bombed Pearl Harbour? By: A. Cordeiro
Why do so Many Superhero Movies Include the Multiverse? By: I. Mizne
Alternate Realities: Fact or Fiction? By: A. Gomes
Why are Humans Wired to Take the Path of Least Resistance? By: A. Silva Hofstadler
How has Molecular Gastronomy Changed our Outlook on Food? By: R. Mautner

November Issue - "An Age-Old Rivalry"

The Modern-Day Space Race By: A. Thiollier
Is Technology Making Us Less Humane? By: A. Hemnani
The Epic Superhero Battle: Marvel or DC By: I. Mizne
Hamilton and Burr: A Duel to the Death By: S. Costa Franco
TikTok or Instagram - An Insight Into the Harmful Effects of Social Media By: S. Lawrence Bueno
The Ongoing Rivalry Between Movies and TV Shows By: R. Mautner
The Century-Old Rivalry: Scotland VS England By: A. Cordeiro

September Issue - "All That Jazz"

A Tale About Jazz By: M. Carramaschi
New Orleans: The City of Horror and Jazz By: A. Cordeiro
Jazz's Influence on Modern Society By: I. Mizne
Ella Fitzgerald - Queen of Jazz By: S. Costa Franco
What Makes Jazz Sound the Way it Does? By: R. Mautner
The Harm in Gender Generalizations By: A. Thiollier
Has Covid Created a More Eco-Friendly Society? By: A. Hemnani

June Issue - "The Bust of Nefertiti"

Technologies in Ancient Egypt By: I. Mizne
Are Beauty Standards Holding Us Back? By: M. Carramaschi
Societal Representation of Feminine Beauty and How This Reflects on Modern Life and Gender Roles By: S. Costa Franco
Colours of Ancient Egypt By: A. Cordeiro
The Origin of Beauty Standards Revolving Around Women By: R. Mautner
How Accurate is the Science Behind the Show Flash? By: I. Mizne

May Issue - 'Nights Through Dreams Tell the Myths Forgotten
​by the Day' ~ Carl Jung

What are Dreams? By: I. Mizne
What is MBTI and How Does it Work? By: R. Mautner
Why Does the Sky Change Colours? By: A. Cordeiro
Maybe, we all just need some meditation. By: M. Carramaschi
Are Carl Jung's Definitions of Personality Types Oversimplified? By: S. Franco

April issue - "Grainy Nostalgia"

The Science Behind Nostalgia By: S. Costa Franco
What is Lucid Dreaming? By: R. Mautner
Technology: A Blast from the Past By: A. Cordeiro
It has been a year. What has BLM Achieved? By: M. Carramaschi

March issue - "Life Cycles and Rebirth"

Everything is a Myth By: S. Costa Franco
The Perfect Utopia: Can Synthetic Biology Make It Happen? By: B. Zarzur
Education for Girls in Rwanda: Is it Improving? By L. Mizne

Last term

Trump Bans TikTok: Why Does it Matter? By: L. Uchôa
Pantanal Fires By: N. Elmor
Four Important Steps to a Healthy Lifestyle By: S. Costa Franco
The Reciprocal Negotiations Between Trump and Bolsonaro By: C. Oldfield
How Can a Pandemic be Put to an End By: S. Costa Franco
Russia's Covid-19 Vaccine By: N. Elmor
How did New Zealand declare themselves Covid-19 free? By: L. Orduna
UN Women by: A. Ernanny

Politics and Current Affairs:

Corona Crash by T. Pacini
International Women's Day by N. Elmôr
Kobe Bryant's Death by T. Chan
Rede Globo's Bias by F. Lebl
China vs. Tibetan Buddhism by C. Oldfield
Corona Virus: should it be a cause for concern? by S. Costa Franco
Crisis in the Brazilian Social Liberal Party by E. Wichmann
Politics and the Amazon Fires by E. Wichmann
São Paulo Weather: Problems and Unpredictability by V. Macedo
Hong Kong Protests by E. Wichmann
Update on the Sudan Crisis by: S. Tamayo
THE CUB: Devastating Tuberculosis by E. Conklin

Business & Economics:

Fashion Business Update - Abercrombie and Fitch by: J. Nemr
Apple and Amazon are the first American companies to reach U$1 trillion in market value by S. Venturelli
The Fascination with Game of Thrones By: A. Rabelo

Technology:

Tracking Devices in the Modern World By: O. Lotufo
Samsung S10 vs Iphone Xs, Xs Max and Xr by S. Gebara and H. Sampaio
Why does your iPhone slow down each time a new one is released? by J. Nemr

Science and Environment:

The Burning Amazon by A. Carrasco
The First Picture of the Black Hole by: J. Santodomingo
THE CUB: Do You Know Where Your Trash Ends Up? By C. Fernandes
Fridays For Future Protests by S. Tamayo

Conspiracy Theories:

Anastasia Romanov: The whisper of a lost princess by: R. Yahya
The Simpsons Conspiracy Theory by Alejandra M. Carrasco
Cryptocurrency Conspiracies and What It Is by L. Maksoud
The Earth is Flat Conspiracy Theory by: L. Maksoud
The IT Verse Conspiracy Theory by A. Wichmann
Missing Flights and the Asian Bermuda Triangle Conspiracy by L. Maksoud
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