Can Computers Design a Better Puzzle Than a Human? | The New Yorker Documentary https://youtu.be/PKWcc5uHkls

Is belief in God a delusion? https://theconversation.com/is-belief-in-god-a-delusion-150102

Bombeiros temem que incêndios florestais em Chernobyl liberem radiação https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/geral-55489054

m dos slogans favoritos do fundador do Fascismo, “il duce” Benito Mussolini (e de seus seguidores) era o grosseiro “me ne frego”, equivalente a “e daí?” ou “não estou nem aí”. https://twitter.com/arielpalacios/status/1295544596479574016

Anthony Hopkins@AnthonyHopkinsWith gratitude, I celebrate 45 years of sobriety. https://twitter.com/AnthonyHopkins/status/1344008299490861056

2020, o ano em que a ciência encontrou a religião https://opiniao.estadao.com.br/noticias/espaco-aberto,2020-o-ano-em-que-a-ciencia-encontrou-a-religiao,70003566856

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If we were to create a time capsule of objects that captured life in 2020, what might we choose? https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201217-time-capsule-2020-the-37-objects-that-defined-the-year

A Physicist Has Come Up With Math That Makes ‘Paradox-Free’ Time Travel Plausible https://www.sciencealert.com/a-physicist-has-come-up-with-the-maths-to-make-time-travel-plausible

‘The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries’ Review: The Branching Tree of Life https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-story-of-evolution-in-25-discoveries-review-the-branching-tree-of-life-11609283826

Origin of life? Just add hydrogen! https://natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/61023-origin-of-life-just-add-hydrogen

Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants ‘personal empowerment’ for users, through his data startup https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/29/business/web-inventor-tim-berners-lee-wants-personal-empowerment-users-through-his-data-startup/

Coverage of “wooden satellites” misses the point https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/wooden-satellites-an-intriguing-idea-but-wont-solve-space-junk-problems/

New Drug Starves Cancer Cells by Attacking Their “Power Plants” https://scitechdaily.com/new-drug-starves-cancer-cells-by-attacking-their-power-plants/

The simple maths error that can lead to bankruptcy https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200217-the-simple-maths-error-that-can-lead-to-bankruptcy

Japan’s forgotten indigenous people http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200519-japans-forgotten-indigenous-people

Why 2020 was a pivotal, contradictory year for facial recognition https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/29/1015563/why-2020-was-a-pivotal-contradictory-year-for-facial-recognition/

Oficial para comunidade surda, Língua Brasileira de Sinais tem diferentes ‘sotaques’ pelo País https://educacao.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,

Why Jeff Bezos sets aside time to ‘putter’ every day https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/25/why-jeff-bezos-makes-a-pointto-putter-every-day.html

O homem que montou uma ‘rádio para alienígenas’ e enviou músicas ao espaço por 30 anos https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/geral-55189930

Snail, Fish and Sheep Soup, Anyone? Savory New Finds at Pompeii https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/world/europe/pompeii-snack-bar-thermopolium.html

What WEAPONS Did VIKINGS Actually Use?… And some they DIDN’T! https://youtu.be/4EXzYD9OWPo

THIS IS AKONCITY https://youtu.be/-UdXHtrs_Ho

Singer Akon is Spending $6 Billion to Build a “Real-Life Wakanda” in Senegal https://mymodernmet.com/akon-city/

Coronavirus: What has Covid done for climate crisis? https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-55412079

A Tesla Model S erupted ‘like a flamethrower.’ It renewed old safety concerns about the trailblazing sedans. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/28/tesla-battery-fire/

New Data Supports the Modified Gravity Explanation for Dark Matter, Much to the Surprise of the Researchers https://www.universetoday.com/149416/new-data-supports-the-modified-gravity-explanation-for-dark-matter-much-to-the-surprise-of-the-researchers/

Japan developing wooden satellites to cut space junk https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55463366

The Cosmic Dawn of Technology https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-cosmic-dawn-of-technology/

A History of So-Called ‘Cures’ For Deafness https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/history-deafness-cures/

All Dark Matter in the Universe Could Be Primordial Black Holes – Formed From the Collapse of Baby Universes Soon After the Big Bang https://scitechdaily.com/all-dark-matter-in-the-universe-could-be-primordial-black-holes-formed-from-the-collapse-of-baby-universes-soon-after-the-big-bang/

Asteroids Crashing Into Dead Stars are Helping Explain Where the Universe’s Missing Lithium Went

John PIzzarelli ao vivo https://fb.watch/2Fx2d8SHsi/

How Fingerprinting Works https://science.howstuffworks.com/fingerprinting.htm

The family with no fingerprints https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55301200

Has Thomas Becket’s treasured ‘little book’ been found? https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-55370722

Closing the circle on waste https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/12/partner-content-closing-the-circle-on-waste/

Astrophysicists Discover Unfathomably Large Intergalactic Gas Filament https://scitechdaily.com/astrophysicists-discover-unfathomably-large-intergalactic-gas-filament/

New type of atomic clock keeps time even more precisely https://news.mit.edu/2020/atomic-clock-time-precise-1216

Can’t Draw a Mental Picture? Aphantasia Causes Blind Spots in the Mind’s Eye https://neurosciencenews.com/aphantasia-spatial-memory-17488/

Extreme E: Lewis Hamilton and electric car racing https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-55414712

Solving a Long-Standing Mystery About the Sun: How Stored Magnetic Energy Heats Solar Atmosphere https://scitechdaily.com/solving-a-long-standing-mystery-about-the-sun-how-stored-magnetic-energy-heats-solar-atmosphere/

‘Ajdovska Deklica’ (‘Heathen Maiden’)SloveniaAn unmistakable facial pareidolia in the Julian Alps also includes a fantastic tale. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/ajdovska-deklica

Chinese economy to overtake US ‘by 2028’ due to Covid https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55454146

When Charles Darwin embarked on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle #OnThisDay in 1831, this marine chronometer sailed with him

A moment in time that’s lasted 2000 years— the Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot) https://youtu.be/aRd_ad_LvR4

An Hour with Dave Brubeck https://pca.st/ztpqbu8z

What Are Artists For? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/28/what-are-artists-for

How Russian hackers infiltrated the US government for months without being spotted https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/15/1014462/how-russian-hackers-infiltrated-the-us-government-for-months-without-being-spotted/#Echobox=1608046672

Why people still starve in an age of abundance https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/17/1013213/hunger-starvation-food-policy-history/

Technology can help us feed the world, if we look beyond profit https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/18/1013215/food-technology-sustainability-capitalism-pandemic-gmos/

This is the Stanford vaccine algorithm that left out frontline doctors https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/21/1015303/stanford-vaccine-algorithm/

A janitor making $4/hour walked into a Fortune 500 company boardroom. Shaking, he took a seat opposite the CEO. “So I had an idea…” he nervously began. Years later, that idea would become an iconic consumer brand and make him worth ~$20M. https://twitter.com/ankithharathi/status/1341193051184611331

Could Carbon Dioxide Be Turned Into Jet Fuel? https://www.wired.com/story/could-carbon-dioxide-be-turned-into-jet-fuel/

A verdadeira origem do triângulo com um olho que aparece nas notas de dólar (e as teorias que alimenta)https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/geral-55407029

Mitochondria May Hold Keys to Anxiety and Mental Health https://pca.st/2dd7jn4m

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Discovering Stalin’s million-dollar wine cellar https://pca.st/bi6x9ren

Even as young adults, male chimps are ‘mama’s boys’ https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/even-young-adults-male-chimps-are-mama-s-boys

Visual Illusion That May Help Explain Consciousness https://neurosciencenews.com/consciousness-visual-illusion-17469/

#IStandWithDan, #DictatorDan, #DanLiedPeopleDied: 397,000 tweets reveal the culprits behind a dangerously polarised debate https://theconversation.com/istandwithdan-dictatordan-danliedpeopledied-397-000-tweets-reveal-the-culprits-behind-a-dangerously-polarised-debate-151100

Criadora do desenho de calçadas de São Paulo morre aos 87 anos https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/noticia/2020/12/21/criadora-do-desenho-de-calcadas-de-sao-paulo-morre-aos-87-anos.ghtml

Johannes Kepler Theorized That Each Planet Sings a Song, Each in a Different Voice: Mars is a Tenor; Mercury, a Soprano; and Earth, an Alto https://www.openculture.com/2019/05/johannes-kepler-created-a-theory-that-each-planet-sings-a-song.html

Nature’s Secret WhisperingMusic and the Cosmology of Johannes Kepler http://www.brucedickey.com/natures-secret-whispering

Pesquisadores analisam avanço de grupos antivacina em plena pandemia https://agencia.fapesp.br/pesquisadores-analisam-avanco-de-grupos-antivacina-em-plena-pandemia/34890/

The dark history of photography lighting https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p091kg0m/the-dark-history-of-photography-lighting

Napoleon’s missing hand, explained https://youtu.be/QTA8j5wSTx4

Will going out in the cold give you a cold? https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/catch-cold-does-coat-help/2020/12/18/467f50b2-3f2e-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html

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How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-i-know-im-not-the-only-conscious-being-in-the-universe/

The Kingdom of Aksum: Africa’s trading empire

https://pca.st/episode/98f670cb-073e-4902-8459-ad3dc453243f

Obelisk of Axum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk_of_Axum?wprov=sfla1

StoryWrangler – Twitter Ngram Search

https://storywrangling.org/?ngrams=dinosaurs,complex%20systems,space&start=2014-12-09&end=2019-01-25

Hedonometer

http://hedonometer.org/timeseries/en_all/

The Economist: 10 anos da fracassada Primavera Árabe

https://internacional.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,the-economist-10-anos-da-fracassada-primavera-arabe,70003558155

The Cultural Revolution

https://pca.st/episode/0700b56c-13a6-4fad-8e4c-0a851c145f78

A história de André-Charles Armeilla, um dos maiores fotógrafos do Rio do início do século 20 que foi enterrado como indigente

https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-55320828

055: The Seleucid Empire – Syrian Nights, Macedonian Dreams

https://pca.st/episode/686b234e-552f-4694-89db-d2e2ca5cbae4

Peter Dodds on Text-Based Timeline Analysis & New Instruments for The Science of Stories

https://pca.st/episode/b956fa08-aa22-4a37-9b03-4f1e903cf19e

The Meaning of Work

https://pca.st/episode/27797273-b3e5-423f-aab4-02288a85a004

A climate change of address

https://pca.st/episode/a869f481-3973-4fc4-a501-1fb3ef24f277

160 Years Later, Study Shows Charles Darwin Was Right About Why Insects Are Losing the Ability to Fly

160 Years Later, Study Shows Charles Darwin Was Right About Why Insects Are Losing the Ability to Fly

You Want To Move? Some Cities Will Pay You $10,000 To Relocate

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/20/944986123/you-want-to-move-some-cities-will-pay-you-10-000-to-relocate

Facebook Groups Are Destroying America

Why being kind to others is good for your health https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201215-why-being-kind-to-others-is-good-for-your-health

conversando sobre impacto com… Carolina Piccin – vamos falar sobre impacto https://vamosfalarsobreimpacto.today/2020/12/16/conversando-sobre-impacto-com-carolina-piccin/

Beethoven 250: how the composer’s music embodies the Enlightenment philosophy of freedom https://theconversation.com/beethoven-250-how-the-composers-music-embodies-the-enlightenment-philosophy-of-freedom-151888

O que significa a questão racial e cultural em Cuba para Biden https://internacional.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,o-que-significa-a-questao-racial-e-cultural-em-cuba-para-biden,70003553268

This Is My Brain on Salvia https://www.wired.com/story/this-is-my-brain-on-salvia/

US cyber-attack: US energy department confirms it was hit by Sunburst hack https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55358332

Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-breach-idUSKBN28R2ZJ

As China Tracked Muslims, Alibaba Showed Customers How They Could, Too https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/technology/alibaba-china-facial-recognition-uighurs.html

O Google, o Face e o WhatsApp no meio https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,o-google-o-face-e-o-whatsapp-no-meio,70003556030

Cientistas buscam caminho mais rápido para tratar depressão https://agencia.fapesp.br/cientistas-buscam-caminho-mais-rapido-para-tratar-depressao/34873/

All the Stuff Humans Make Now Outweighs Earth’s Organisms https://www.wired.com/story/all-the-stuff-humans-make-now-outweighs-earths-organisms/

How Does Ketamine Combat Depression? https://neurosciencenews.com/ketamine-depression-genetics-17447/

China biodegradable plastics ‘failing to solve pollution crisis’

(Some of) the lyrics to Ode to Joy https://youtu.be/4pbMUEHvoAo

Ode to Joy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_to_Joy

Ode À Alegria https://m.letras.mus.br/ludwig-van-beethoven/3636/

How Beethoven outgrew his hero worship https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/15/opinions/celebrating-beethoven-250-birthday-swafford/index.html

Quer entender o que é Economia Circular ligada à inovação e ao Design? Marque na agenda esta live com Carolina Piccin da Materia Lab!https://www.linkedin.com/events/6742154873602641920/

Can people really change? https://www.gatesnotes.com/Podcast/Can-people-really-change

Earth’s Harshest Ecosystems May Birth New Species Fastest https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-species-may-arise-more-frequently-earths-barren-ecosystems-180976517/

5,000-year-old relic from the Great Pyramid discovered in a cigar box in Scotland https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/dixon-relics-great-pyramid-of-giza-discovery-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html

Critical temperature for tropical tree lifespan revealed https://phys.org/news/2020-12-critical-temperature-tropical-tree-lifespan.html

MacKenzie Scott Gives Away $4.2 Billion in Four Months https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-15/mackenzie-scott-gives-away-4-2-billion-within-four-months

Humans don’t have to set foot on Mars to visit ithttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/humans-dont-have-to-set-foot-on-mars-to-visit-it/2020/12/15/b1df2afe-3f05-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html

The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized & Put Online https://www.openculture.com/2019/03/the-medieval-masterpiece-the-book-of-kells-is-now-digitized-put-online.html

10,000 Classic Movie Posters Getting Digitized & Put Online by the Harry Ransom Center at UT-Austin: Free to Browse & Download

How to mine precious metals in your home https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200407-urban-mining-how-your-home-may-be-a-gold-mine

Most medieval maps follow the T-O convention in which the round earth (O) is divided into three continents by a T-shaped sea. https://www.instagram.com/p/CIz6T-0nM9F/?igshid=15ab5m2gn1ud9

Senegal’s Dakar Fashion Week: The catwalk in a baobab forest https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55300261

New Covid strain: How worried should we be? https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55312505

The Man Who Invented More Than 800 Iconic Toys https://youtu.be/9sKKan_Q9VU

GPS rules everything. And it’s getting a big upgrade https://www.cnet.com/features/gps-rules-everything-and-its-getting-a-big-upgrade/

Pornhub Just Purged All Unverified Content From the Platform https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqjjy/pornhub-suspended-all-unverified-videos-content

Inca Knot Numbers https://youtu.be/OFbbiAf8kUo

We’re Closer to a Universal Flu Vaccine https://youtu.be/53lqX3KIcSE

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