Larry Ellison has abruptly shut down the foundation he spent years setting up https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/9/2/21409530/larry-ellison-foundation-disband-london-philanthropy-coronavirus

Study Sheds Light on Brain Mechanism Activated by Uncertainty https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-uncertainty-16948/

A Estela da Restauração https://www.instagram.com/p/CEjTMj7DjCf/?igshid=1tk3l1fj8n9uz

Russia’s ‘slow-motion Chernobyl’ at sea https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200901-the-radioactive-risk-of-sunken-nuclear-soviet-submarines

Your Beloved Blue Jeans Are Polluting the Ocean—Big Time https://www.wired.com/story/your-blue-jeans-are-polluting-the-ocean/

It’s time to talk about how toilets may be spreading covid-19 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/01/its-time-talk-about-how-toilets-may-be-spreading-covid-19/

Prototype gravity-based energy storage system begins construction https://newatlas.com/energy/gravitricity-gravity-renewable-energy-storage-system/

Bolsonaro is burning the amazon. Again. https://www.defundbolsonaro.org/

Spanish dictator Franco’s family told to hand back summer palace https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53995386

lying with a drone over Beirut after explosion – by Jhony Azeir https://youtu.be/yFSK0975xL0

Great Hymn to the Aten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hymn_to_the_Aten

e muito obrigado sempre pelos cafés tão simpáticos! http://ko-fi.com/renedepaula

We’re Eating This Planet to Death https://www.wired.com/story/ipcc-land-report-food/

The 3 Biggest Space Impacts Ever https://youtu.be/dofWYGka2g8

Fungi in Gut Linked to Higher Alzheimer’s Risk Can Be Reduced Through Ketogenic Diet https://neurosciencenews.com/alzheimers-gut-fungi-keto-diet-16939/

NuScale’s small nuclear reactor is first to get US safety approval https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/first-modular-nuclear-reactor-design-certified-in-the-us/

‘Ultra-Processed’ Junk Food Linked to Advanced Ageing at Cellular Level, Study Finds https://www.sciencealert.com/study-links-ultra-processed-junk-food-to-age-marker-in-chromosomes

When a several-hundred-metre-high tsunami hit Northern Norway https://sciencenorway.no/geology-meteorites/when-a-several-hundred-metre-high-tsunami-hit-northern-norway/1735399

Going vegan might be good for the planet, but giving up eating meat entirely won’t necessarily make you healthier https://www.sciencefocus.com/comment/going-vegan-might-be-good-for-the-planet-but-giving-up-eating-meat-entirely-wont-necessarily-make-you-healthier/

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/

How a Bus Ride Turned Into a Coronavirus Superspreader Event https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/health/coronavirus-bus-china.html

Khmer Rouge executioner ‘Comrade Duch’ who oversaw notorious torture prison dies age 77 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/02/asia/khmer-rouge-duch-cambodia-death-intl-hnk/index.html

Big Oil Faded. Will Big Tech? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/technology/big-oil-faded-will-big-tech.html

Disputa de Princesa Isabel pelo Palácio Guanabara chega ao fim após 125 anos https://politica.estadao.com.br/blogs/fausto-macedo/disputa-de-princesa-isabel-pelo-p...

marque na agenda: Vamos Falar Sobre Impacto com… André Sturm! https://www.facebook.com/events/320795895704775

RNC 2020 & Kenosha: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) https://youtu.be/rBu0BRTx2x8

Former KGB Spy Rates 9 Russian Spy Scenes In Movies | How Real Is It? https://youtu.be/TYo-ziwOAWQ

Why We Choose This And Not That; Restoring A Baroque Painting Part 1 https://youtu.be/CJxn3Chnn9w

Martial Artist Scott Adkins Breaks Down Fight Scenes from Movies | GQ Sports https://youtu.be/4BzGTiJ0k3k

Medieval Inventions https://pca.st/0hr7ocnt

Ice Sheet Melting Is Perfectly in Line With Our Worst-Case Scenario, Scientists Warn https://www.sciencealert.com/ice-sheet-melting-is-perfectly-in-line-with-our-worst-case-scenario-scientists-warn

The novel coronavirus is a master of disguise: Here’s how it works https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/health-science/the-novel-coronavirus-is-a-master-of-disguise-heres-how-it-works/2020/05/01/70b98db0-ca93-4dfc-859d-3ac026cf6d1b_video.html

The coronavirus disarms the foot soldiers of the immune system. Scientists theorize that boosting them could fight covid-19. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/08/31/interferons-coronavirus-immune-boost/

Six Common Ways People Justify Unethical Behavior https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/in-love-and-war/202008/six-common-ways-people-justify-unethical-behavior

Voronoi diagram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi_diagram

Rare rallies in China over Mongolian language curb https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53981100

Why are the Dutch so tall? http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200823-why-are-the-dutch-so-tall

Stonehenge enhanced sounds like voices or music for people inside the monument https://www.sciencenews.org/article/stonehenge-acoustics-sounds-voices-music

Ancient Earth

Elon Musk’s Neuralink is neuroscience theater https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/30/1007786/elon-musks-neuralink-demo-update-neuroscience-theater/#Echobox=1598806065

Quem é a Palantir, a mais obscura gigante da tecnologia? https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/empresas,quem-e-a-palantir-a-mais-obscura-gigante-da-tecnologia,70003418282

The Woman Who Found the Earth’s Inner Core https://daily.jstor.org/the-woman-who-found-the-earths-inner-core/

Earth’s core may have hardened just in time to save planet’s magnetic field https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/earths-core-hardened-just-time-save-magnetic-field

Earth’s core is a billion years old https://www.livescience.com/earth-core-billion-years-old.html

Human meets AI: Intel Labs team pushes at the boundaries of human-machine interaction with deep learning https://www.zdnet.com/article/human-meets-ai-intel-labs-team-pushes-at-the-boundaries-of-human-machine-interaction-with-deep-learning/

Explainer: What do political databases know about you? https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/31/1007734/political-databases-explainer-tracked-campaigns-election-2020/

The Brain Implants That Could Change Humanity https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/opinion/sunday/brain-machine-artificial-intelligence.html

Tecnologia ajuda a traduzir o ‘juridiquês’ e aproximar o cidadão da Justiça https://politica.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,tecnologia-ajuda-a-traduzir-o-juridiques-e-aproximar-o-cidadao-da-justica,70003419466

Pesquisadores e ‘caçadores’ internacionais disputam meteoritos após chuva de pedras no sertão pernambucano https://g1.globo.com/ciencia-e-saude/noticia/2020/08/30/pesquisadores-e-cacadores-internacionais-disputam-meteoritos-apos-chuva-de-pedras-no-sertao-pernambucano.ghtml

Is Success Luck or Hard Work? https://youtu.be/3LopI4YeC4I

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Um mutante menos letal do coronavírus https://saude.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,um-mutante-menos-letal-do-coronavirus,70003417373

The internet of protest is being built on single-page websites https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/27/1007714/carrd-internet-of-protest-is-being-built-on-one-shot-websites/

Where Did Earth’s Water Come From? Study Casts Doubt on The Current Meteorite Theory https://www.sciencealert.com/study-proposes-new-origin-theory-for-earth-s-water

Earth may have been born wet https://www.space.com/earth-born-wet-meteorite-study.html

World-first database catalogs 1,000s of viruses in our gut microbiome https://newatlas.com/science/gut-virome-database-virus-microbiome-phage/

Welcome to Botnet, Where Everyone’s an Influencer https://www.wired.com/story/botnet-social-network-where-everyones-influencer/

Smart bricks, The Royal Academy of Engineering awards for pandemic engineering solutions and detecting SARS-Cov-2 in sewage www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036f7w2

Who was the real Cleopatra? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004kln9

edefining time; why mindfulness can cause problems; secrets of super-resilient tardigrades https://pca.st/19vm0mw3

Widening the search for alien life on habitable planets; why unconscious bias training might not work; the microbiome of cancer tumours https://pca.st/x8ydkslv

Arctique : le point de non retour ? https://pca.st/p8v6tchi

New feedbacks speed up the demise of Arctic sea ice https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6507/1043

Study sheds light on Continental’s role as pillar of Nazi war machine https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-continental-war-idUSKBN25N1TL

‘Please mine more nickel,’ Musk urges as Tesla boosts production https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-nickel-idUSKCN24O0RV

The rare plants that ‘bleed’ nickel

Africa declared free of wild polio in ‘milestone’ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53887947

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (English Edition) eBook Kindle https://amzn.to/32zNH3E

The secret of the synchronized pendulums https://physicsworld.com/a/the-secret-of-the-synchronized-pendulums/

Physicist Predicts How The Universe Might End: With Explosions Like None in Existence https://www.sciencealert.com/at-the-end-of-time-our-universe-could-bit-lit-up-by-exploding-black-dwarf-stars

Animal tracks found in the Grand Canyon are the oldest ever, paleontologists say https://www.cnet.com/news/animal-tracks-found-in-the-grand-canyon-are-the-oldest-ever-paleontologists-say/

These Are The 6 Different Ways To Make A Supernova https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/10/30/these-are-the-6-different-ways-to-make-a-supernova/#2745b61e57b5

Dinosaurs were discovered by British scientists http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150603-the-land-that-gave-us-dinosaurs

Eigg beach runner stumbles on dinosaur bone https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-53917742

Space Could Be Filled With Hidden ‘Rogue’ Planets – And We May Soon Be Able to See Them https://www.sciencealert.com/there-could-be-way-more-rogue-planets-in-space-than-we-ever-realised-scientists-say

Autonomous cars: potential lifesavers but with new risks https://pca.st/psmsb2um

Bread price may rise after dire UK wheat harvest https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53921121

Border Officials Weighed Deploying Migrant ‘Heat Ray’ Ahead of Midterms https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/us/politics/trump-campaign-immigration.html

Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They’re finding QAnon instead. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/26/1007611/how-qanon-is-targeting-evangelicals/

Cosmic rays may soon stymie quantum computing

The Little-Known Role of Slavery in Viking Society https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/little-known-role-slavery-viking-society-180975597/

Bacteria from Earth can survive in space and could endure the trip to Mars, according to new study https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/26/world/earth-mars-bacteria-space-scn/index.html

Eduardo Saverin on the ‘world of innovation past Silicon Valley’ – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/25/eduardo-saverin-on-the-world-of-innovation-past-silicon-valley/

Bird deaths down 70 percent after painting wind turbine blades https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/black-paint-on-wind-turbines-helps-prevent-bird-massacres/

The Shape-Shifting Squeeze Coolers https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-caloric-materials-cool-and-protect-the-environment-20200824/

The Weird, Dark History of 8chan https://www.wired.com/story/the-weird-dark-history-8chan/

Com aquecimento global, crescimento do país e desperdício, demanda de água no Brasil pode aumentar quase 80% até 2040, aponta estudo https://g1.globo.com/economia/noticia/2020/08/26/com-aquecimento-global-crescimento-do-pais-e-desperdicio-demanda-de-agua-no-brasil-pode-aumentar-quase-80percent-ate-2040-aponta-estudo.ghtml

Scientists and conservationists are proposing that up to half of Earth’s land and oceans be protected for nature. Is it a necessary step or a pipe dream? https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200318-the-worlds-largest-nature-reserve

Why We Distort Probability https://neurosciencenews.com/probability-distortion-16903/

How Bacteria-Eating Bacteria Could Help Win the War Against Germs https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/science/bacteria-bdellovibrio-predator-prey.html

Restaurant: How It All Began https://pca.st/10re18a1

When Restaurants Were Chic Soup Spas https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/when-restaurants-were-chic-soup-spas/

The First Clock In America Failed,

Secrets of the Great Pyramid https://pca.st/qzojusbm

Indigo: the bluest blue https://pca.st/pv0l4rgc

Indigo Dyeing with fresh indigo leaves https://youtu.be/S94siuEEH7s

Liechtenstein launches battle to reclaim confiscated WWII territory https://www.ft.com/content/f9b28161-fee7-49a4-8e1c-fb7496b8849c

This Scary Map Shows How Climate Change Will Transform Your City https://www.wired.com/story/this-scary-map-shows-how-climate-change-will-transform-your-city/

Astonishingly old Antarctic space rock could explain mystery of life’s weird asymmetry https://www.space.com/pristine-antarctic-meteorite-amino-acid-chirality.html

Veduta aerea di Ponte alla Carraia https://www.instagram.com/p/CERCsdWgVGt/?igshid=agj2oua25wy4

Rio Tinto bosses lose bonuses over Aboriginal cave destruction https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53885695

Hubble Captures Edge of the Cygnus Supernova Blast Wave https://scitechdaily.com/hubble-captures-edge-of-the-cygnus-supernova-blast-wave/

Sudan’s Jabal Maragha: Illegal gold diggers destroy ancient site https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53889663

Hear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the “Neanderthal Flute,” Dating Back Over 43,000 Years http://www.openculture.com/2015/02/hear-the-worlds-oldest-instrument-the-neanderthal-flute.html

Optical Illusions Have Long Mystified Neuroscientists – Now Explained in a Fly’s Eyes https://scitechdaily.com/optical-illusions-have-long-mystified-neuroscientists-now-explained-in-a-flys-eyes/

Optical Illusions https://sites.tufts.edu/bairzoepsych13/2019/04/02/optical-illusions/

Earth Appears to Be Travelling Through The Debris of Ancient Supernovae https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-might-be-moving-through-the-debris-of-ancient-supernovae

Bird Eggs Warn Each Other About Danger https://youtu.

Why Obeying Orders Can Make Us Do Terrible Things https://neurosciencenews.com/empathy-orders-16876/

The Power of Cautionary Questions: Neil Gaiman on Ray Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451,’ Why We Read, and How Speculative Storytelling Enlarges Our Humanity https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/05/31/neil-gaiman-the-view-from-the-cheap-seats-bradbury/?s=09

Ray Bradbury, luminary of the space age, at 100 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6506/927

Why some people are more optimistic than others — and why it matters https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/is-the-glass-half-full-your-age-might-affect-your-optimism-but-the-pandemic-may-not/2020/08/14/ec8d52d4-d290-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html

Woody Allen Lives the “Delicious Life” in Early-80s Japanese Commercials http://www.openculture.com/2012/06/woody_allen_lives_the_delicious_life_in_early-80s_japanese_commercials.html

Oradour-sur-Glane: Uproar after France Nazi massacre site vandalised https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53875150

The Templar town with a hidden underground ‘twin’ https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p08nysf4/the-templar-town-with-a-hidden-underground-twin-

The mysterious ‘inverted tower’ steeped in Templar myth https://www.bbc.com/reel/playlist/the-secrets-of-the-templars?vpid=p07r1cbt

Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock & Other Jazz Musicians Sell Whisky & Spirits in Classic Japanese TV Commercials http://www.openculture.com/2020/08/miles-davis-herbie-hancock-other-jazz-musicians-sell-whisky.html

Oh, great: NASA says an asteroid is headed our way right before Election Day https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/22/us/asteroid-earth-november-2020-scn-trnd/index.html

Painting Fake Eyes on Cattle Is Helping To Save Them From Lion Attacks https://mymodernmet.com/livestock-painted-eyes-conservation/

What Happens When You Don’t Shower For Five Years https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/book-showering/

How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/magazine/beauty-evolution-animal.html

Watch Obama’s full speech at the 2020 Democratic National convention https://youtu.be/zXDCHR8pAmY

“Green Bananas” – New Research Shows Exploding Stars May Have Caused Mass Extinction on Earth https://scitechdaily.com/green-bananas-new-research-shows-exploding-stars-may-have-caused-mass-extinction-on-earth/

How evolution builds genes from scratch https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03061-x

Why Do Matter Particles Come in Threes? A Physics Titan Weighs In. https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-do-matter-particles-come-in-threes-a-physics-titan-weighs-in-20200330/

Ask Ethan: Why Don’t Light And Gravitational Waves Arrive Simultaneously? https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/08/21/ask-ethan-why-dont-light-and-gravitational-waves-arrive-simultaneously/#390f5b5462c2

On Left and Right Nietzscheanism https://areomagazine.com/2020/08/19/on-left-and-right-nietzscheanism/

Os guizos falsos da alegria https://opiniao.estadao.com.br/noticias/espaco-aberto,os-guizos-falsos-da-alegria,70003407254

(Chora virou mesquita) Kariye Camisi ibadete açıldı https://indyturk.com/node/230941/kariye-camisi-ibadete-a%C3%A7%C4%B1ld%C4%B1

The Next Generation of Batteries Could Be Built by Viruses https://www.wired.com/story/the-next-generation-of-batteries-could-be-built-by-viruses/

Japanese airline ANA trials germ-busting ‘elbow doorknob’ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53859948

When Learning on Your Own Is Not Enough https://neurosciencenews.com/social-decision-making-learning-16869/

NASA investigating small air leak on International Space Station https://www.space.com/nasa-investigates-air-leak-on-space-station.html

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