Brazil map Sao Paulo, Brazil — Sao Paulo may sit more than an hour's drive from the coast, but according to the new e-learning materials produced by Brazil's most populous state, the mega-city is located on the beach. That is just one of the eyebrow-raising errors that prompted a judge Monday to suspend the use of new digital learning materials for high school students in Sao Paulo state, the latest controversy for a program already criticized by education experts. The e-learning texts also claim that water can cause Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's and depression if it is contaminated — though no such link is known to exist — and mention a discovery by French scientist Leon Foucault in 1985.

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