How Kodak Detected the Atomic Bomb https://youtu.be/7pSqk-XV2QM

Mystery of solar cycle illuminated https://www.mpg.de/15032287/solar-cycle-illuminated

Plastic pollution: Washed clothing’s synthetic mountain of ‘fluff’ https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54182646

Population genomics of the Viking world https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2688-8

World’s largest DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren’t all Scandinavian https://phys.org/news/2020-09-world-largest-dna-sequencing-viking.html

Podcast: COVID-19 is helping turn Brazil into a surveillance state https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/16/1008495/podcast-covid-19-brazil-surveillance-state/

The Origin Of The Word ‘Alcohol’ https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/the-origin-of-the-word-alcohol/

The Vikings Were More Complicated Than You Might Think https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/science/vikings-DNA.html

Hot Dog Sports, Sexy Pseudoscience, Intestinal Power Walking https://pca.st/70dwbemo

This scientist thought he’d found the source of all sexual energy https://www.popsci.com/story/science/weirdest-thing-orgone-energy-competitve-eating-beetle-frog-poop/

NASA Science Live: Our Next Solar Cycle https://youtu.be/6XNBuhJ6Qj8

Vikings weren’t necessarily blond. Or Scandinavian. Why everything you thought you knew about the Norsemen may be wrong https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/16/europe/vikings-blond-scandinavian-study-scn-scli-intl-gbr/index.html

Scientists raid DNA to explore Vikings’ genetic roots https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/09/scientists-raid-viking-dna-explore-genetic-roots/

The sun has started a new solar cycle, experts say https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/15/world/solar-cycle-25-nasa-noaa-scn-trnd/index.html

The True Origins of Gold in Our Universe May Have Just Changed,

Trump seems to believe in magic over science https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-need-a-president-who-sees-science-as-a-solution-not-the-enemy/2020/09/15/a13e3378-f745-11ea-89e3-4b9efa36dc64_story.html

Voyager – The Golden Record https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/

New Patagonia tags: ‘Vote the a**holes out’ https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/15/business/patagonia-voting-tags/index.html

The mud whisperersIsraeli Archaeologists Invent Disgusting but Effective New Way to Date Ancient Ruins https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.highlight-israelis-invent-disgusting-but-effective-new-way-to-date-ancient-ruins-1.9157297

Leia, Vale a Pena: 7 Laws of Magical Thinking https://leiavaleapena.tumblr.com/post/56545554094/7-laws-magical-thinking

Carl Sagan’s last interview with Charlie Rose (Full Interview) https://youtu.be/U8HEwO-2L4w

Peoples of the Steppe – Scythians & Saka to Parthians & Yuezhi https://pca.st/ilwg38sp

Smallpox: The defeat of the speckled monster https://pca.st/e9v0z4ng

U.S. Image Plummets Internationally as Most Say Country Has Handled Coronavirus Badly https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/09/15/us-image-plummets-internationally-as-most-say-country-has-handled-coronavirus-badly/

Microsoft’s underwater data centre resurfaces after two years https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54146718

Obituary: Shere Hite, pioneering sex researcher https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54120483

The Solar System travels at an average speed of 515,000 mph (828,000 km/h). Even at this rapid speed, the Solar System would take about 230 million years to travel all the way around the Milky Way. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CE4l9d_AzzZ/

A história dos japoneses escravizados por portugueses e vendidos pelo mundo mais de 400 anos atrás https://g1.globo.com/mundo/noticia/2020/09/12/a-historia-dos-japoneses-escravizados-por-por...

“I Have Blood on My Hands”: A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-ignore-political-manipulation-whistleblower-memo

Bill McKibben @billmckibben · 16h

Ariel Palacios @arielpalacios · Aug 17Um 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

A remarkable picture in the Atlantic right now–5 cyclones spinning simultaneously https://twitter.com/billmckibben/status/1305591130608857088

5 tropical cyclones are in the Atlantic at the same time for only the second time in history https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/14/weather/atlantic-ocean-5-active-tropical-cyclones/index.html

Six Tropical Systems Swirl Around Two Oceans https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/six-tropical-systems-swirl-around-two-oceans

Hundreds of thousands of migratory birds have been found dead in New Mexico https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/14/us/new-mexico-birds-died-migration-trnd/index.html

Antarctic Glaciers Are Growing Unstable Above and Below Water https://www.wired.com/story/antarctic-glaciers-are-growing-unstable-above-and-below-water/

Two major Antarctic glaciers are tearing loose from their restraints, scientists say https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/09/14/glaciers-breaking-antarctica-pine-island-thwaites/

Climate change: Warmth shatters section of Greenland ice shelf https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54127279

Sweeping internal Facebook memo: “I have blood on my hands” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/sweeping-internal-facebook-memo-i-have-blood-on-my-hands/

NASA Wants to Send a Probe to the Hellish Surface of Venus https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-wants-to-send-a-probe-to-the-hellish-surface-of-venus/

Is there life floating in the clouds of Venus?

PictureThis – Botanist in your pocket https://www.picturethisai.com/How Can We Pay for Creativity in the Digital Age? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/14/how-can-we-pay-for-creativity-in-the-digital-age

Around the world in 50 stunning photographs https://www.escape.com.au/top-lists/around-the-world-in-50-stunning-photographs/image-gallery/dd7e5606d3617b68e6a27be9ba564016

What Pizza Is Like Around the World https://youtu.be/vK2RvhZmp7Q

Diving With Dolphins – Joy | Mindful Escapes | BBC Earth https://youtu.be/hqQ1ZS-HSdE

AI ethics groups are repeating one of society’s classic mistakes https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/14/1008323/ai-ethics-representation-artificial-intelligence-opinion/

Air conditioning technology is the great missed opportunity in the fight against climate change https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/01/1007762/air-conditioning-grid-blackouts-california-climate-change/

‘A Young Princess (Dorothea of Denmark?)’ https://www.instagram.com/p/CFHM3rRJKYW/?igshid=vve7gfaqqv7p

Goodbye, readers, and good luck — you’ll need itWhat 50 years of writing about economics has taught me. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/13/robert-samuelson-goodbye-column/

Nemrut – The Mountain Tomb https://www.heritagedaily.com/2020/09/nemrut-the-mountain-tomb/135078

Math Shows How Famed Indus Valley Civilization May Have Been Toppled by Climate Change https://www.sciencealert.com/maths-shows-how-an-ancient-civilisation-was-toppled-by-climate-change

Os desafios do planejamento urbano https://opiniao.estadao.com.br/noticias/notas-e-informacoes,os-desafios-do-planejamento-urbano,70003435342

O ‘bom nazista’ https://cultura.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,o-bom-nazista,70003435366

Hubble: Time Machines [Eye in the Sky Video Miniseries]

vamos conversar sobre impacto com… Rodrigo de Almeida! https://youtu.be/RDh0UqpKzDw

2º EME – Encontro de Mobilidade Elétrica Abravei https://www.sympla.com.br/2-eme—encontro-de-mobilidade-eletrica-abravei__970001

site do Vamos Falar Sobre Impacto http://vamosfalarsobreimpacto.today

podcast do Vamos Falar Sobre Impacto: http://usina.com/u/spotifyimpacto

Slow Down With Snow Monkeys – Rest | Mindful Escapes | BBC Earth https://youtu.be/d4c87NfCQ74

Drone Video of Bay Area’s Orange Haze Fits Too Perfectly With Blade Runner 2049 Soundtrack https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/drone-video-of-bay-areas-orange-haze-fits-too-perfectly-1845012415

Blade Runner: San Francisco https://youtu.be/x_m9TUP_t_Y

Those Orange Western Skies and the Science of Light https://www.wired.com/story/those-orange-western-skies-and-the-science-of-light/

Infinity & Beyond — Episode 7: The Flat Earth conspiracy https://astronomy.com/news/videos/2020/09/infinity–beyond–episode-7-flat-earth-conspiracy

Latin America’s Is Emerging As A Renewable Energy Powerhouse https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Latin-Americas-Is-Emerging-As-A-Renewable-Energy-Powerhouse.html

Digitizing supply chains to lift farmers out of poverty https://news.mit.edu/2020/sourcetrace-agriculture-0910

The origin of North Korea’s ‘ghost boats’ https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200909-the-origin-of-north-koreas-ghost-boats

Translation https://pca.st/mh8uo4g7

Where Do We Go From Here? https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/where-do-we-go-from-here/

The solar fridge helping African entrepreneurs living off the grid https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/09/business/solar-fridge-youmma-africa-spc-intl/index.html

‘Talking about suicide makes it smaller’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/talking-about-suicide-makes-it-smaller/p08qvnr8

On Bullshit – by Harry G. Frankfurt https://amzn.to/33ma0KS

Welcome to the Next Level of Bullshit http://nautil.us/issue/89/the-dark-side/welcome-to-the-next-level-of-bullshit

GPT-3, Bloviator: OpenAI’s language generator has no idea what it’s talking about https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/22/1007539/gpt3-openai-language-generator-artificial-intelligence-ai-opinion/

Translation https://pca.st/mh8uo4g7

The Truth About Beauty in Physics https://youtu.be/xFKgIOX8IRE

Decompress In The Dunes – Change | Mindful Escapes | BBC Earth https://youtu.be/n3KjX6TMHZA

The surprising dangers of cooking and cleaning https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200909-why-indoor-air-pollution-is-an-overlooked-problem

Global coronavirus deaths pass 900,000 – BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-54098675

Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destruction, scientists warn https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54091048

When did we become fully human? What fossils and DNA tell us about the evolution of modern intelligence https://phys.org/news/2020-09-fully-human-fossils-dna-evolution.html

How Can We Pay for Creativity in the Digital Age? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/14/how-can-we-pay-for-creativity-in-the-digital-age

The Strange History of One of the Internet’s First Viral Videos https://www.wired.com/story/history-of-the-first-viral-video/

muito obrigado pelos cafés!!! http://ko-fi.com/renedepaula

live hoje às 15h com Rodrigo de Almeida no youtube.com/renedepaula

Zoom Towns And The New Housing Market For The 2 Americas https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/09/08/909680016/zoom-towns-and-the-new-housing-market-for-the-2-americas

Vegan leather made from mushrooms could mould the future of sustainable fashion https://theconversation.com/vegan-leather-made-from-mushrooms-could-mould-the-future-of-sustainable-fashion-143988

Trees Have Their Own Way of Social Distancing https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-trees-social-distance

A Medieval Metropolis Existed In What’s Now St. Louis, Then Mysteriously Disappeared in the 14th Century http://www.openculture.com/2020/09/a-medieval-metropolis-existed-in-whats-now-st-louis.html

Acetaminophen Alters Perception of Risk https://neurosciencenews.com/acetaminophen-risk-taking-16984/

Why Facebook’s political-ad ban is taking on the wrong problem https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/06/1008192/why-facebooks-political-ad-ban-is-taking-on-the-wrong-problem/

EU says one in eight deaths is linked to pollution https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54071380

Metade das crianças brasileiras não recebeu todas as vacinas que deveria em 2020, apontam dados do Ministério da Saúde https://g1.globo.com/bemestar/vacina/noticia/2020/09/08/metade-das-criancas-brasileiras-nao-receberam-todas-as-vacinas-que-deveriam-em-2020-apontam-dados-do-ministerio-da-saude.ghtml

Another Facebook worker quits in disgust, saying the company ‘is on the wrong side of history’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/08/facebook-employee-quit-racism/

The Photo Book That Captured How the Soviet Regime Made the Truth Disappear https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-photo-book-that-captured-how-the-soviet-regime-made-the-truth-disappear

Orca That Carried Dead Calf for 17 Days Gives Birth Again https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/us/orca-calf-j35-j57-whale.html

Who Invented the Wheel? And How Did They Do It?

Google’S Selfish Ledger Is An Unsettling Vision Of Silicon Valley Social Engineering https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish-ledger-video-data-privacy

The long, complicated history of “people analytics” https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/19/1006365/if-then-lepore-review-simulmatics/

What’s missing from corporate statements on racial injustice? The real cause of racism. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/05/1008187/racial-injustice-statements-tech-companies-racism-racecraft-opinion/

How an overload of riot porn is driving conflict in the streets https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/03/1007931/riot-porn-right-wing-vigilante-propaganda-social-media/

Take a closer look at the wonderful imagery and narratives contained within the famous blue-and-white designs of Ming porcelain with Curator of Chinese Ceramics Jessica Harrison-Hall. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CE3qg-xodl_/?igshid=rdrjeutefitx

‘Kill All You See’: In a First, Myanmar Soldiers Tell of Rohingya Slaughter https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/world/asia/myanmar-rohingya-genocide.html

Religion in Myanmar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Myanmar

A New Card Ties Your Credit to Your Social Media Stats https://www.wired.com/story/karat-influencer-credit-card-social-media-stats/

Nietzsche: por onde começar? | Scarlett Marton e Leandro Karnal https://youtu.be/jbu_4pi0AWI

Aldous Huxley on Technodictators https://youtu.be/oIgjujAI6eE

Lactose Tolerance Quickly Spread Throughout Europe – Genetic Analysis of Human Bones From Bronze Age Battlefield Reveals https://scitechdaily.com/lactose-tolerance-quickly-spread-throughout-europe-genetic-analysis-of-human-bones-from-bronze-age-battlefield-reveals/

Cuba executes top military officers https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csywzv

Cuban General and Three Others Executed for Sending Drugs to U.S. (1989)

Terraplanistas ficam perdidos em alto-mar ao tentar atingir ‘borda do mundo’ https://www.em.com.br/app/noticia/internacional/2020/09/06/interna_internacional,1183084/terraplanistas-perdidos-em-alto-mar-ao-tentar-atingir-borda-do-mundo.shtml

Fungus Amungus https://pca.st/6v8uqrbx

Clima Extremo – Extremes Wetter https://twitter.com/terliwetter/status/1302307426688000004

Here are the two sites that broke their all-time high temperature records today. 121° was the highest ever recorded at an official site in L.A. County. Ditto for Paso Robles 117° in San Luis Obispo County. Burbank tied all-time high of 114° from yesterday https://twitter.com/NWSLosAngeles/status/1302774264831963136

Typhoon Haishen batters South Korea after slamming Japan https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54046150

O massacre esquecido de Angola https://www.dw.com/pt-002/o-massacre-esquecido-de-angola/a-6545394

The orphans of Angola’s secret massacre seek the truth https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54025264

The senses: Synaesthesia: When senses merge https://pca.st/kk3o6n5z

‘From each according to ability; to each according to need’ – tracing the biblical roots of socialism’s enduring slogan https://theconversation.com/from-each-according-to-ability-to-each-according-to-need-tracing-the-biblical-roots-of-socialisms-enduring-slogan-138365

The Root of All Cruelty? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/27/the-root-of-all-cruelty

Why do you feel lonely? Neuroscience is starting to find answers. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/04/1008008/neuroscience-loneliness-pandemic-covid-neurons-brain/

meu outro podcast, o Roda e Avisa http://www.rodaeavisa.com

muito obrigado pelos cafés!!! http://ko-fi.com/renedepaula

conversando sobre impacto com… André Sturm!

conversando sobre impacto com… André Sturm!

No, The Universe Is Not Purely Mathematical In Nature

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/05/20/no-the-universe-is-probably-not-mathematical-in-nature/

Secrets of male elephant society revealed in the wild

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54018133

The hidden impact of your daily water use

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200326-the-hidden-impact-of-your-daily-water-use?ocid=twfut&s=09

A brief history of the Doomsday Clock: from nuclear risk to pandemics and climate change

A brief history of the Doomsday Clock: from nuclear risk to pandemics and climate change

Which cooking oil is the healthiest?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200903-which-cooking-oil-is-the-healthiest

When two bacteria become one

https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2020/september/eleftherios-papoutsakis-bacterial-fusion/

Moderate Cannabis Use Impacts Cognitive Functioning

Moderate Cannabis Use Impacts Cognitive Functioning

Reviewing research about the evolution of complex cognition in birds

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-evolution-complex-cognition-birds.html

Schizophrenia: Nurture Cannot Overcome Nature

Schizophrenia: Nurture Cannot Overcome Nature

Is Consciousness Continuous or Discrete? Maybe It’s Both

Is Consciousness Continuous or Discrete? Maybe It’s Both

The secret history of dirt

Operation Condor: the cold war conspiracy that terrorised South America

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/sep/03/operation-condor-the-illegal-state-network-that-terrorised-south-america?s=09

Nazi-Occupied Norway Offers a Glimpse of What Hitler Wanted for the Entire World

https://time.com/5885434/nazi-norway-history/