Author Archives: Andre F. Barro

Fordlândia – Pics and facts

By Andre F. Barro | Published: June 3, 2010
So I deppared myself with this book at BoingBoing about Fordlândia, and what was not my surprise to google about Fordândia and find a great interest about this adventure of Mr Ford. I, met Fordlândia´s case a different way. Travelling around the amazon in January 2006 with 2 friends, Renato a teology student (at age 26) and [...]
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Angiogenesis – Starving cancer to death

By Andre F. Barro | Published: May 19, 2010
Dr William Li has a very interesting aproach to cancer treatment, worth 20 minutes.
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A guy who flew a 737 for 13 years without a license.

By Andre F. Barro | Published: May 19, 2010
http://gizmodo.com/5540789/the-guy-who-flew-thousands-of-passengers-as-a-fake-pilot Gizmodo has it, a maintenance engineer who became a Boeing 737 pilot by flying a few nights in a flight simulator and printing a fake airliner pilot license. Amazingly enough, he flew passengers for thirteen years without any incidents.
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Jure Robic – human?

By Andre F. Barro | Published: April 22, 2010
I always talk about the human capacity of overcoming all it´s limits, but this, blows my minds limits. As Kotke said: This story is so crazy I don’t even know where to start. His system is straightforward. During the race, Robic’s brain is allowed control over choice of music (usually a mix of traditional Slovene marches and Lenny Kravitz), food selection [...]
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Tesla x Edison

By Andre F. Barro | Published: April 19, 2010
Sorry for the lack of posts… Cool story, all true!
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Japan – The strange Country

By Andre F. Barro | Published: March 30, 2010
Japan-The Strange Country (English ver.) from Kenichi on Vimeo. I´m sure there are good things as well
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Secret of eternal happiness

By Andre F. Barro | Published: March 25, 2010
Invest in the process not in the outcome. Professor Srikumar Rao says we all com with hard-wired happiness – he just enlightens how to plug into it. Part1 Part2
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The King of tuna fish in trouble

By Andre F. Barro | Published: March 24, 2010
A interesting view of a market that I didnt know much about… How the blue fin tuna fish is swimming towards an end.
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Trolololololololololo

By Andre F. Barro | Published: March 11, 2010
remember Trololo yuyuyu? now we have this: http://trololololololololololo.com/ Genius
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The Myth of the Rational Buyer: How Too Much Thinking Can Hurt Your Brand

By Andre F. Barro | Published: March 4, 2010
Mark Dziersk’s of Fast Company highlights what every creative advertiser dreams clients knew… only 5% of consumer purchasing behavior is based on rational thought processes, suggesting that 95% is due to subconscious motivation. And… The truth is, most corporations spend 95% of their time obsessing about the five percent. How big should we make the logo? What messages [...]
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