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Here in Brazil, we suffer from a lack of doctors for insurance companies. Frequently, the doctors leave their health insurance, probably because they pay too little (this is especially serious for therapists and psychiatrists), so only the less experienced and the not-so-good doctors remain in...

It seems that El Niño went on vacation... now it's rainy, with temperatures below 27 ºC (the reason for celebration). I even had to turn on the heaters from my aquarium and my brine shrimp culture. Today I took more pictures. These creatures below love my aquarium glass, despite I always...

This seems to be an interesting discussion. In the case of brine shrimp, the species I try to study and find out (mainly Artemia sp.), the natural environment is a hypersaline lake, most times being endorheic, so the only route is by evaporation or percolation. Probably by the fact that ammonia...

The raccoon also transmits rabies? Here the frequent visits are cane toads (Rhinella marina). The dog and the cat don't care so much about them, they may figure out that it's bad business to try attacking them. They are a native species here, so it's not a pest and there are natural predators...

Happy Birthday, JuiceBox (I'm sorry for not doing this before because I'm used to formal English and I'm still learning). I hope you improve more and more. My 21st birthday was in the US in 2019 (the first birthday in the country of my life), I was feeling very bad (probably with depression)...

Okay, unfortunately, I didn't pass the test. The person who passed got a score much better than me and... he is already a teacher, probably for several years, while my best thing was to give practical classes to teens, involving my brine shrimp (once again). The only way I could pass the test...

Thank you, although I never heard or read about the expression "smart cookie". This was one of the last pictures of how my culture is going: There are more couples as well as nauplii. Hope they do success on the fair I will present this week. Still trying to figure out about best methods of...

Okay, I didn't tell you, but I went to the test for pedagogical methods (trying to get a job as a Biology teacher). For several weeks, I didn't continue my journal, so I need to think about writing... Regarding this exam, the time for teaching is up to 20 min (up to or should be at exactly 20...

Let's see how are my shrimps going? Ok, let's see. Probably a mix of cyanobacteria, algae and other microorganisms... Since it was becoming too hot, I moved the recipient to a place that takes less direct sunlight. Note how the algae mat acts as a wall against direct sunlight. Scammers...

It seems that my brine shrimp is doing better, at least for now (okay, I believe that it is the 4th time trying). Without the formalities of academic research (even because is not possible...), I am trying to culture microorganisms in another container (about 3.4 liters). In this container, I...

I don't know if TOEFL is hard, but evidently, there are challenges. Even in Portuguese (my native language) it would be difficult if something like "TOPFL" existed. For the Portuguese language, there is the Celpe-Bras (probably existed since 1994). In this case, it is administrated by the...

I am thinking about creating a thread (on this forum) as a kind of journal for my brine shrimp culture project. Today I practiced listening by... listening to an Astronomy lecture from a practice test for TOEFL (good material from TST, indeed Josh MacPherson talks perfectly as the people from...

Are you a military veteran? I found out that the military integrated US society far more than, for example, here in Brazil. It seems interesting that there are discounts and other benefits to military people (even regarding family-based immigrant visas). I forgot to mention, the United States...

Thank you. This is the article. Speaking of, these damn crustaceans died again! Yesterday I put more cysts (and also today). Whenever a person asks me how to culture them, I would like to answer like this "I have been trying to find out this since 2012". This, despite I now using a sponge filter...

My scientific article was published today in a journal! Well, I also went to the gym, as I have been doing since about March 2022 (part of this is because I was trying to flirt with a girl... I wrote so much about this in my book! [1]). However, I found out that despite the exercises, I gained...

Gosh, this happening just during the car inspection should be unpleasant to see. Why was not he allowed to say your car was overweight? Okay, now I suspect my brine shrimp are going well, once again. Today, I saw a couple, where the female was on ovoviviparity reproduction.

I also support the death penalty, despite not existing in Brazil's criminal law (except in cases of declaration of war). The last free person who was executed was José Pereira de Sousa, accused of killing a farmer (in 1861) and, in 1876, Francisco (a slave) was executed for killing his owner...

What would be the car? I know that there are good car forums across the Internet, as well as several DIY videos.

If this is not an invasive question, what would be the course? Here in Brazil is prohibited to sell alcohol in some states during football matches and in surroundings up to 200 meters radium. However, the law itself is sometimes ignored. Last year, we had a tragic event, when a soccer fan died...

This animal seems very interesting to have in an aquarium. I find invertebrates so interesting. I never saw this invertebrate here in Brazil.

Probably the climate in the region is tropical rainforest climate or tropical monsoon climate. In Brazil, the natives from the Amazon region use buildings adapted to these conditions. I don't know if there are cases of black mold in Brazil. Köppen–Geiger climate classification map. Authors...

I had a similar issue when I was living in a coastal city. By far, this is extremely annoying.

Yeah... it seems that my artemia are enjoying the rice bran... Last year, my term paper's artemia were like this:

I usually like to watch YouTube videos and also Netflix. Since I'm still learning, I put English subtitles.

Here in Brazil, besides this torture, the indirect (and hidden) taxes are extremely high and there are several taxes that we don't even know exist (it is common to have medicines with 40 % tax). The car property tax is extremely burdensome (it's often equivalent to a monthly median income per...

My laptop is a Lenovo IdeaPad 3 and, indeed, it runs some games. I bought the Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition and Age of Empires III on Steam, but only the last one runs well (also, the game is from 2007!). I hope I can get a computer that goes fine with the Definitive Edition. Besides...

Interesting these phones. They are still selling in the US market? What are the advantages? Here in Brazil there are still landline phones for some businesses and are still common for medical offices. We had Walmart here in Brazil but, since circa 2019, the company left the country. I visited...

Besides writing my personal statement for my graduate application (or at least almost that), I remain stubborn, adding more brine shrimp cysts on the 17th (the ones that were born on the 2nd are almost extinct). Their birth date is between the 18th and 19th. I also added more aragonite and did...

After the gym (and tolerating hot weather, once again), I decided to go to a kind of "dollar tree" Brazilian version (although the owner has Chinese ancestry) and decided to buy a 17-liter translucid bucket (this time with a metallic bail) and a condiment container to store the brine shrimp food...

Well, I believe yes. Today I tried to create a formulated diet for my shrimp, this time I did a mix of three ingredients. I hate making annotations, but this time I made some notes. I was thinking also about using the ingredients in a brine solution (with high salinities) for preservation, but...

Still in my business pre-incubator project. Today I tried to make a new food for my brine shrimp. I used rice bran with some fresh water. After using a mixer, filter with a coffee cloth filter I got some cloudy solution. Just poured on the culture. I hope it works.

Well, the tank's okay. I have a collection of the current tank photos, but there are so many that is impossible to publish all of them here without collapsing the thread. Since I received new equipment, now my aquarium has decent lighting (or at least something with functionality). My father...