Minas Gerais does not announce itself. It is not Rio, with its famous skyline and irresistible beaches. It does not have the electric restlessness of São Paulo. What it has is something quieter and, in some ways, more lasting: extraordinary food, a deeply rooted culture, a landscape that moves between colonial towns and waterfalls and […]
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Finding a great place to eat and drink in Rio de Janeiro is not the problem. The city has an extraordinary food culture, from the corner boteco serving cold beer and pastéis at noon to the neighbourhood restaurant where the feijoada has been made the same way for thirty years. The problem is knowing where
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Applying to Oxford is a transformative experience, regardless of the outcome. Having applied to multiple programmes at Oxford University myself, gotten accepted in both Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) programmes, and helped dozens of students get in their dream course, I know what Oxford admissions committee look for. Many applicants approach the
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Five pieces of advice from someone who completed a PhD without losing their mind or passion. Nobody tells you, when you start a PhD, what you are signing up for. You know it will be long and hard, but you really can’t understand the reality of that difficulty until you are in it. Months of
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Writing can be one of the most solitary, frustrating, and deeply personal endeavours. It requires discipline and confidence, especially since artificial intelligence has raised the stakes on what it means to write with a genuinely human voice. The blank page has always been daunting… but now there’s a new anxiety creeping in: if a machine
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you heard of prediction markets and of the controversies linked to insiders who made profits on wars and other state affairs usually falling within the remit of “national security”. I have always been interested in the meaning of security, and critical of labelling something as a “security” issue,
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I used to call myself a party animal and, deep inside, I still am. There’s something about the process of getting ready with a bombastic outfit, meeting your friends, and letting loose to the sound of heavy bass with strangers that I must admit is quite therapeutic. That is what Electronic Dance Music (EDM) culture
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Eroding trust, surging creators, dead search traffic, and AI rewriting everything: here are the communications trends defining 2026.
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