Photo by Pamela Carls, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/irisdragon/)
The kite "wars" are heating up in Brazil to the point that law is having to get involved. Yes, you read that sentence right, chavenet created a post that has the details!
...é peroba no campo, é o nó da madeira... by SheilaTostes (cc by)
oulipian posts Elis Regina and Tom Jobim performing "Aguas de Março" (video, 1974)
Housekeeping! by Eat_Crow (cc by-nd)
Prepare to be amazed and maybe disgusted! MsMolly sparks a roundup of AskMe questions about everyday behaviors that you never knew other people are doing wrong - like shoes on vs. off in the house, and sit vs. stand to wipe.
And in the thread on the snowballing repercussions of the Panama Papers, some reporting direct from our Iceland bureau and some other local news coverage.
Other recent threads on corruption around the world: the Unaoil bribery scandal; Brazil's government-wide meltdown.
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