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Opens exhibition of World Press Photo 2017, sponsored by VISÃO and SIC Notícias, was inaugurated yesterday and opens this Friday to the public in Lisbon, at the National Museum of Ethnology.

“There are images that are hard to see, others that are pleasant and even very beautiful. They all celebrate today’s journalism, the stories that happen in the world and that mark,” said curator Suzan van den Berg.

The exhibition Cosmos Discovery, in which visitors will have the opportunity to see models, capsules, equipment, space facts and even pieces of asteroids with millions of years.

In Cosmos Discovery, space protagonists, the dog (female) Laika, the first terrestrial being to be launched into Space, Yuri Gagarin, the first man to pass the atmosphere barrier, and Valentina Tereshkovae, the first woman to leave in a spaceship, The American chimpanzee Enos, through a replica of the capsule in which he traveled in 1961 aboard the Mercury, and more.

It is possible to sit in the cockpit of a spaceship and imagine ourselves astronauts traveling through space.

An investigation by Yale School of Medicine in the United States, coordinated by physician Gordon Shepherd, found that wine is once again among the top benefits for good mental health.

The study says that anyone who knows how to enjoy good wine can be as beneficial to the mind as math exercises, sudoku or even music.

Yawning or smelling wine “requires control of one of the major muscles of the body,” and this habit stimulates the work of odor and taste receptors.

The expert reveals that “the taste is not in the wine; The taste is created by the wine taster’s brain.”

2nd. edition of My Fado. This is an initiative of Radio SIM, in partnership with the Fado Museum, which aims to find new Interpreters and new authors.

On May 25 we will meet the winners.

There are still many who prefer to read a good book on paper, while others get used to the digital editions. It results in different relationships with the text, with the physical object, in the case of printed on paper.

The personal whys to choose between and others are several, but the most valid is READ and have the PLEASURE to READ. And today, reading a page that is it is the gesture that confirms it.