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Wally Funk, 82, will be the “guest of honor” on the New Shepherd capsule كبسولة, which will take off from the desert in West Texas. Funk was among the women who underwent NASA astronaut training in the 1960s, but who did not go to space and did not serve on the agency’s crew because of their gender. At the time, all NASA astronauts were men. Funk, a former pilot and flight instructor, was the first US Federal Aviation Administration inspector and the first air safety investigator for the US National Transportation Safety Board. Jeff Bezos: Learn about the billionaire’s plans…

Brazil needs to double the level of infrastructure investment to reach an adequate level and make a leap in the international competitiveness of the Brazilian economy, notes the annual report of Infra 2038, a movement aimed at developing the infrastructure sector that brings together consultants and business leaders. studying An estimated R$339 billion annual investment that will be pursued until 2038 to increase quality and local availability, placing Brazilian infrastructure among the top 20 in the world in the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Competitive Ranking. The report, prepared by consulting firm Pezco Economics, estimates that investment in the sector…

One heat wave Unprecedented progress on North America Since last week, resulting in record temperatures in parts of United State e do Canada It caused at least 134 deaths. Officials expect temperatures to remain exceptionally high for another week. Below is the most important information about this phenomenon. What causes a heat wave? Heat waves start when high pressure moves in the atmosphere and pushes warm air toward the ground. This air heats up more when compressed. The Earth’s high pressure system expands vertically, forcing other weather systems to change course. It even reduces wind and cloud cover, making the…

(foto: Twitter / reproduo)Such as low temperatures that hit southern Brazil and caused snow in some areas of Santa Catarina as a result of a polar wave that brought the largest negative anomaly Free In the world outside polos games According to MetSul. According to the institute, there are no lower-than-average temperatures anywhere else on the planet as in central South America. Low temperatures also reach Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. This Tuesday (29/6), Bom Jardim da Serra recorded -7.5°C, the lowest temperature of the year in Brazil. The Northern Hemisphere also recorded temperatures outside the mean. While in the Arctic…

A high school student paused from his graduation speech when he started talking last week about his experience as an LGBTQIA+ student (see video above). Bryce Dersheim, who was the class speaker, said he was censored by the principal of Eastern Regional High School in New Jersey, United State. “I felt like they were trying to control what I was going to say, taking away parts of my identity that I’m really proud of,” Dersheim said in an NBC interview. More than just a letter: Understand what the abbreviation LGBTQIA + meansLGBTQIA+ community members talk about discoveries and challenges The…

Published on 06/29/2021 1:35 PM / Updated on 06/29/2021 1:36 PM (Credit: Twitter/reproduction) The low temperatures that hit southern Brazil and caused snow in some areas of Santa Catarina were the result of a polar wave that brought the world’s largest negative cold anomaly outside the poles, according to MetSul. According to the institute, there are no lower-than-average temperatures anywhere else on the planet as in central South America. Low temperatures also affect Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. This Tuesday (6/29) Bom Jardim da Serra recorded -7.5 °C, the lowest temperature of the year in Brazil. The Northern Hemisphere also recorded…

Greek police announced on Monday that they had recovered artworks by Pablo Picasso and by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, both of which were stolen from Greece’s National Museum in 2012. Thieves broke into the gallery and took Picasso’s “Woman’s Head”, donated in 1949 by the Spanish artist, and Mondrian’s “Moinho”, dated 1905. To deceive the guards, the thieves activated the alarm system several times before storming the building during the night. The guard turned off the alarm and later detected one of the thieves thanks to the motion detector. 1 of 1 Works by Pablo Picasso and Dutch painter Piet…

People on the beach in British Columbia, Canada, during a heat wavePhoto: CBC/CNN british columbia province CanadaSchools and universities were closed on Monday (28th) due to the sweltering heat that pushed the temperature to a national record high over the weekend, in a country widely known for its bitterly snowy winters. Leighton, a city in the center of the province, about 200 kilometers north of Vancouver, reported a temperature of 46.6 degrees Celsius on Sunday. Before the weekend, Canada’s historic high was 45C, recorded in Saskatchewan in 1937, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada. Read moreA much warmer Monday…

Wyss Institute researchers, from Harvard university, Does MIT, no United State, developed a kind of test COVID-19 They can be installed in masks and are able to deliver the result less than two hours after their activation. The discovery was revealed Monday (28) in the journal “Nature Biotechnology.” This is a device with a tissue detector pre-installed on the mask. Anyone using the addon can activate the test with a button. According to the researchers, the result is obtained in 90 minutes and delivered The level of accuracy is similar to PCR type tests The device is usually made with…

A resident of Baton Rouge (Louisiana, USA) lived briefly, last week, in A taste of the life of a billionaire distance A bank mistakenly deposited $50 billion (246 billion Brazilian reais) into his account.Realtor Darren James first realized that something was wrong when his panicked wife called him after checking his account online, after discovering a large sum.At first, Darren thought of the idea of ​​a The sudden inheritance of an unknown relative, she reported on Fox 11. However, he knew the money wasn’t really theirs, and that they “couldn’t do anything with it”.James, who previously worked for the Louisiana…