27 March 2015
By Joy Hanford, Contributor (*) With Spring arriving in the north of Portugal my family and I are ready to shake off the waterlogged winter, embrace the bloom and quickly fill up our weekends and holidays with as many day trips as possible. There are no shortages of palaces, convents and castles to visit, hikes […]
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26 March 2015
The Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) and the University of the Azores have signed a new protocol which provides funds from FLAD to promote travel between the University of the Azores and research institutions in the United States. FLAD has committed to a grant of €100.000 to the initiative starting in 2015. Faculty, researchers, undergraduate and […]
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24 March 2015
Portugal is today the European Union country with the highest emigration in proportion of its population. There are more than two million Portuguese emigrants, meaning more than 20% of the Portuguese population lives outside the country of their birth. Over recent decades, the growth in the number of Portuguese emigrants has been greater than the […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, World
24 March 2015
Set in the Middle Ages but written in the early twentieth century, Eça de Queirós’s novella, Saint Christopher, is a powerful indictment of those who profess the value of morality but who do not practice it. The narrative is just as relevant today—when issues of religion, hypocrisy, and social justice are more urgent than ever—as […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Books, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
23 March 2015
By Len Port, Contributor(*) The chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, John Tully, is concerned about the Operation Grange investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann but, contrary to press reports, he has not called for the investigation to be closed. What is in question is the scale of the operation in the light of […]
23 March 2015
A study by a Portuguese research team, associated with the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC) of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, has determined that a low-calorie, balanced diet delays aging and increases longevity in animals. The study, titled ‘ Neuropeptide Y stimulates autophagy in hypothalamic neurons’ – led by researcher Cláudia Cavadas – […]
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