Khnum in Esna
November 8, 2026If you thought I would not return to talking about Egypt in this space, you were mistaken. As I said a few texts ago, astrologically…
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Kitchens of the big houses
October 18, 2026Let’s talk a little about history and food. Between the 16th and 19th centuries, wheat flour was an expensive ingredient in Brazil. Imported from Portugal,…
Sugar exports
October 7, 2026Although it may not seem so, there are central themes that present themselves each month in the making of this blog’s posts. Elections aside, this…
Public policies
October 3, 2026Have you ever stopped to think that your daily life is shaped, all the time, by decisions you did not make? The bus that arrives…
The editing of reality
October 1, 2026We are in 2026, another election year in Brazil. And, as happens with every election, we have already begun to see circulating on social networks…
Systems and Libraries
September 24, 2026Have you ever stopped to think about what it would be like to find a specific item in a library that holds over 184 million…
An embroidered system
September 10, 2026Let’s do a small exercise. Imagine cross-stitch as an analog computational system, not because embroidery is literally a computer, but because some of its characteristics…
Handmade and marketing
June 4, 2026Sometimes, a piece of news goes beyond the field of consumption and forces us to reflect on memory, culture, and labor. That was what happened…
Horus’s Incompleteness
May 24, 2026Have you ever stopped to think that even the most ancient symbols carry a philosophy of incompleteness? The Eye of Horus, one of the best-known…
Embroidery: the oldest in the world
May 6, 2026The history of embroidery is older than any written memory. Among the stitches still used today, cross-stitch is often pointed out as one of the…