The Naked Mayor of Rio de Janeiro: Is a Factoid a Fact?

When astronomers recently decided, in their wisdom, that Pluto is not a “real” planet, they “downgraded” it to a “planetoid” — a planet-like body that falls short of satisfying the criteria for “true” planethood.
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Etymology: Middle French -oïde & Latin -oïdes, from Greek -oeidemacrons, from -o- -eidemacrons, from eidos form, shape, kind — [...]

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Current Content Downloads: First Jiggerings with KDEnlive: Can I make the KDEnlive video editing suite work for me? I produced a short sport for Current Content Downloads as part of an intermittent effort to find out.
Short answer: Maybe

Tupi Feds: “Keep Kickbacks From Own-Goaling the PAC”

The João-de-farro or forneiro (“oven-maker”) bird (furnarius rufus): Tupi feds take up bird watching with a special interest in nest-feathering.
Maior operação da PF caça 38 por desvios em obras do PAC: The Estado de S. Paulo on the day’s top white-collar crime story, in which 1,000 federal police serve warrants in an investigation of [...]

Veja (Brazil) on Michael Mann’s “Fascists”

The Ideology That Became An Insult
Diogo Schelp
Veja magazine (Brazil)
No. 2065
June 17, 2008
Translated C. Brayton
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I have now read 8 academic peer reviews of the book — Fascists, by UCLA’s Michael Mann — along with an introductory chapter, and find it difficult to believe that the Veja reviewer and the others were reading the same book — [...]