Can nuclear war be morally justified? https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200804-can-nuclear-war-ever-be-morally-justified

From archaeology to Assassin’s Creed Odyssey – Reconstructing Athens in 3D https://youtu.be/zm_tjjgRF_s

The British Museum is full of stolen artifacts https://youtu.be/hoTxiRWrvp8

COVID-19 is awful. Climate change could be worse. https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/Climate-and-COVID-19

Bill Gates: Another crisis looms and it could be worse than the coronavirus https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-gates-another-crisis-looms-and-it-could-be-worse-than-the-coronavirus-2020-08-06

Climate change: Lockdown has ‘negligible’ effect on temperatures https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53681096

Cutting-Edge Research Shows How Hair Dulls Razor Blades https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/898577234/cutting-edge-research-shows-how-hair-dulls-razor-blades

Nuclear Fusion Will Not Save Us https://earther.gizmodo.com/nuclear-fusion-will-not-save-us-1844605848

Why Do Razor Blades Get Dull So Quickly? https://www.wired.com/story/why-do-razor-blades-dull-so-quickly/

Malaria in Africa: Parasite ‘resistant to artemisinin’ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53676702

Weed is not good for your heart, studies say https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/05/health/weed-marijuana-heart-wellness/index.html

me paga um café? http://ko-fi.com/renedepaula

Rosa de Hiroshima https://youtu.be/l6fOw_icNFs

The forgotten mine that built the atomic bomb https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200803-the-forgotten-mine-that-built-the-atomic-bomb

J. Robert Oppenheimer: “I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” https://youtu.be/lb13ynu3Iac

Best Monkey Moments | BBC Earth https://youtu.be/opyPkipNNhECOVID In Prisons, How Sperm Swim. July 31, 2020, Part 2 https://pca.st/m0j6qwyq

Niall Ferguson On What History Can Teach Us About Covid-19 https://pca.st/66esh7rw

Climate change-fueled heatwaves could kill millions https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/03/1005965/climate-change-fueled-heatwaves-could-kill-millions/

8 Martian Postcards to Celebrate Curiosity’s Landing Anniversary https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/8-martian-postcards-to-celebrate-curiositys-landing-anniversary

Sols 2844-2845: SAM is Baking to Celebrate 8 Years on Mars https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission-updates/8730/sols-2844-2845-sam-is-baking-to-celebrate-8-years-on-mars/

Happy anniversary, Curiosity! NASA rover marks 8 years on Mars https://www.space.com/nasa-mars-rover-curiosity-eight-years.html

How Hot Will the Future Feel? https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/how-hot-will-the-future-feel

Does new physics lurk inside living matter? https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4546

Why do humans prefer to mate in private? https://phys.org/news/2020-08-humans-private.html

The deal that saved Seychelles’ troubled waters https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200803-the-deal-that-saved-seychelles-troubled-waters

Perfil de vítimas destaca idsos, brancos e moradores da periferia https://digital.estadao.com.br/@rene_5/csb_2tzhsd7RcL8bKgAtuAJfHZBbE5YjWVHIGWlbczTuYXeAwWnBL0LIcG0ykKXohnbe

Oswaldo Cruz: Legado de um Pioneiro https://digital.estadao.com.br/@rene_5/csb_2tzhsd7RcL8bKgAtuAJfHZot3p9-6ZFD3SrhnIBcF4JTwE5Tj74fZbuDZuWz46bo

O Avanço das Vacinas no Brasil https://digital.estadao.com.br/@rene_5/csb_2tzhsd7RcL8bKgAtuAJfHUmUaMXAfJTXrsaNZVm040pZ0jjP8SEoSem2ICYFG3ZS

Objects of Crisis: Qana vulvulu textile from Vanuatu https://youtu.be/jQBmvdgJfXw

How “forever chemicals” polluted America’s water https://youtu.be/sZHuZkUUYM4

Are we on the road to civilisation collapse? https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190218-are-we-on-the-road-to-civilisation-collapse

Masks mandates have major impact, study finds http://news.mit.edu/2020/masks-mandates-impact-deaths-0805

Nitrato de amônio: explosão em Beirute pode ter relação com fertilizante que já causou estragos nos EUA, na China e na França https://g1.globo.com/mundo/noticia/2020/08/04/nitrato-de-amonio-explosao-em-beirute-pode-ter-relacao-com-fertilizante-que-ja-causou-estragos-nos-eua-na-china-e-na-franca.ghtml

Is noise pollution killing whales and dolphins? https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-53653506/is-noise-pollution-killing-whales-and-dolphins

The ‘solar canals’ making smart use of India’s space https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200803-the-solar-canals-revolutionising-indias-renewable-energy

What is the ‘sovereign citizen’ movement? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53654318

The American Scientists Who Saved London From Nazi Drones https://www.wired.com/story/the-american-scientists-who-saved-london-from-nazi-drones/

Climate change-fueled heatwaves could kill millions https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/03/1005965/climate-change-fueled-heatwaves-could-kill-millions/

How to build a nuclear warning for 10,000 years’ time https://www...

Google invests $450 million in ADT, gets exclusive hardware deal https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/adt-will-exclusively-install-nest-hardware-in-450-million-google-deal/

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

Google’s The Selfish Ledger (leaked internal video) https://youtu.be/QDVVo14A_fo

Energy Demands Limit Our Brains’ Information Processing Capacity https://neurosciencenews.com/energy-information-processing-16756/

The senses: Touch https://play.pocketcasts.com/podcasts/9c99a3c0-6589-0133-cf9e-0d11918ab357

Experiencing Childhood Trauma or Abuse Makes Body and Brain Age Faster https://scitechdaily.com/experiencing-childhood-trauma-or-abuse-makes-body-and-brain-age-faster/

A New ‘Forever Chemical’ Has Been Detected in Arctic Seawater For The First Time https://www.sciencealert.com/a-worrying-forever-chemical-has-been-detected-in-arctic-seawater-for-the-first-time

Common crustacean turns microplastics into “nanoplastics” in days https://newatlas.com/environment/common-crustacean-microplastics-nanoplastics-days/

The quest for quantum-proof encryption just made a leap forward https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/03/1005891/search-for-quantum-proof-encryption-computing-nist/

Why Don’t We Have Live Video From Mars? NASA’s Jaw-Dropping Plans For ‘Laser’ TV From The Red Planet https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2020/08/02/why-dont-we-have-live-video-from-mars-nasas-jaw-dropping-plans-for-laser-tv-from-the-red-planet/#79413e2c1871

U.S. History: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) https://youtu.be/hsxukOPEdgg

Fernando Reinach – As peças se encaixam https://saude.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,as-pecas-se-encaixam,70003385035

The field of natural language processing is chasing the wrong goal

Invisible Allies (a historia do Egon Schiele, a historia da evolucao do virus da gripe espanhola, a historia do cobre x virus e muitas outras) https://pca.st/dwgcmlx1

The Death of the City? https://pca.st/muagfr83

Humans Might Be So Sickly Because We Evolved to Avoid a Single Devastating Disease https://www.sciencealert.com/we-evolved-a-way-to-beat-a-deadly-infection-but-it-made-us-vulnerable-to-other-diseases

FDA’s Do-Not-Use These Hand Sanitizers List Now at More Than 100 Products https://www.newsweek.com/fdas-do-not-use-these-hand-sanitizers-list-now-more-100-products-1522254

Human sperm swims like a corkscrew in 3D https://youtu.be/MBKdKbYHSk0

Ultraviolet light machines are fighting Coronavirus: Here’s how

conversando sobre impacto com… Thomas Eckschmidt https://vamosfalarsobreimpacto.today/2020/07/30/conversando-sobre-impacto-com-thomas-eckschmidt/

How Radio Waves Could Help Clear the Way to Space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mogcNhgGUmI&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=SciShowSpace

Restoring Rothko | Tate https://youtu.be/AGqAggmwyMU

Van Gogh – Challenging the ‘Tortured Genius’ Myth | Tate https://youtu.be/dFqAKp6xmLg

Valley of the Fallen https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/valley-of-the-fallen/

Study: A plunge in incoming sunlight may have triggered “Snowball Earths” http://news.mit.edu/2020/sunlight-triggered-snowball-earths-ice-ages-0729

Did a supernova trigger the late Devonian extinction? https://physicsworld.com/a/did-a-supernova-trigger-the-late-devonian-extinction/

Boosting gut microbes helps protect mice against Alzheimer’s disease https://www.newscientist.com/article/2250188-boosting-gut-microbes-helps-protect-mice-against-alzheimers-disease/#ixzz6Tm4mkdvM

Climate-change-driven flooding could endanger 200 million people—in 30 years https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/30/1005782/climate-change-driven-flooding-could-endanger-200-million-people-in-30-years/

A new neural network could help computers code themselves https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/29/1005768/neural-network-similarities-between-programs-help-computers-code-themselves-ai-intel/

A Merciless Ranking of Tech CEOs’ Rooms https://slate.com/technology/2020/07/which-tech-ceo-has-the-best-office-mark-zuckerberg-jeff-bezos-sundar-pichai-or-tim-cook.html

Covid-19 Brings Out the Worst in Brazilian Elites https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-30/covid-19-brings-out-the-worst-in-brazilian-elites

To Really ‘Disrupt,’ Tech Needs to Listen to Actual Researchers

vamos falar sobre impacto com… Thomas Eckschmidt https://vamosfalarsobreimpacto.today/2020/07/28/vamos-falar-com-thomas-eckschmidt/

meu canal no youtube https://www.youtube.com/renedepaula

dica de leitura: o Bonobo e o ateu https://leiavaleapena.tumblr.com/post/189647428983/leia-vale-a-pena-the-bonobo-and-the-atheist-by

‘Adeus, iFood’: entregadores tentam criar cooperativa para trabalhar sem patrão https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-53551592

Valley of the Fallen https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/valley-of-the-fallen/

Mad Scientists Revive 100-Million-Year-Old Microbes https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-revive-100-million-year-old-microbes/

As crises rock Earth, humans look to Mars https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/07/29/crises-rock-earth-humans-look-mars/

Baghdad soars to 125 blistering degrees, its highest temperature on record https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/07/29/baghdad-iraq-heat-record/

Missing part of Stonehenge returned 60 years on https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-48190588

Stonehenge: Sarsen stones origin mystery solved https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-53580339

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: The Untold Story of Cryptography Pioneer Elizebeth Friedman https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-woman-who-smashed-codes-the-untold-story-of-cryptography-pioneer-elizebeth-friedman

Pre-colonial communities’ history of gender fluidity https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-53573764/pre-colonial-communities-history-of-gender-fluidity

Nile dam row: Egypt fumes as Ethiopia celebrates https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53573154

NASA’s new Mars rover is bristling with tech made to find signs of alien life https://www.technologyreview.

Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google Prepare for Their ‘Big Tobacco Moment’ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/technology/amazon-apple-facebook-google-antitrust-hearing.html

Bill Gates on Elon Musk’s controversial coronavirus comments: Stick with electric cars and rockets https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-gates-on-elon-musks-coronavirus-comments-he-should-stick-with-electric-cars-and-rockets-2020-07-28

Kim Jong Un says there will be ‘no more war on this earth’ thanks to North Korea’s nuclear weapons https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/27/asia/kim-jong-un-nuclear-weapons-intl-hnk/index.html

The owner of WeChat thinks deepfakes could actually be good https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/28/1005692/china-tencent-wechat-ai-plan-says-deepfakes-good/

How covid-19 conspiracy videos keep getting millions of views https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/28/1005738/hydroxychloroquine-covid-19-misinformation-video/

Some scientists are taking a DIY coronavirus vaccine, and nobody knows if it’s legal or if it works https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/29/1005720/george-church-diy-coronavirus-vaccine/

Turkey Passes Law Extending Sweeping Powers Over Social Media https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/world/europe/turkey-social-media-control.html

Americans are suffering. Trump offers them a doctor who warns of sex with demons. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/america-is-suffering-trump-offers-them-a-doctor-who-warns-of-sex-with-demons/2020/07/28/460fea3e-d0fb-11ea-8c55-61e7fa5e82ab_story.html

Making a Planet Worth Saving https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/making-a-planet-worth-saving

Egypt Sentences Women to 2 Years in Prison for TikTok Videos https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/world/middleeast/egypt-women-tiktok-prison.html

Iran blasts dummy US aircraft carrier with missiles https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53575874

vamos falar sobre impacto com… Thomas Eckschmidt https://www.linkedin.com/events/vamosfalarsobreimpactocom-thomaseckschmidt/

China & Uighurs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)https://youtu.be/17oCQakzIl8

Lithium in Drinking Water Linked With Lower Suicide Rates https://neurosciencenews.com/water-lithium-suicide-16708/

The US needs a green stimulus – but must provide immediate relief first https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/28/1005503/the-us-needs-a-green-stimulus-but-must-provide-immediate-relief-first/

A Helicopter Ride Over Mars? NASA’s About to Give It a Shot https://www.wired.com/story/a-helicopter-ride-over-mars-nasas-about-to-give-it-a-shot/

How to watch NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover launch live online https://www.space.com/mars-2020-perseverance-rover-how-to-watch-webcasts.html

Carbon border taxes are unjust https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/27/1005641/carbon-border-taxes-eu-climate-change-opinion/

Vacinas contra covid-19 rendem milhões a executivos sem salvar uma só vida https://einvestidor.estadao.com.br/negocios/vacina-covid-19-milhoes-executivos/

Chinese-made drone app in Google Play spooks security researchers https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/07/chinese-made-drone-app-in-google-play-spooks-security-researchers/

Fractal Conflicts & Swing Voters https://pca.st/fiwrb1sy

Fighting Hate Speech with AI & Social Science https://play.pocketcasts.com/podcasts/87eef2d0-cd12-0137-1e17-0acc26574db2

Motivadas por demanda global, gestoras brasileiras apostam em ‘fundos verdes’ https://economia.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,motivadas-por-demanda-global-gestoras-brasileiras-apostam-em-fundos-verdes,70003378084

How the world’s smelliest fruit could power your phone https://www.bbc.

It’s too late to stop QAnon with fact checks and account bans https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/26/1005609/qanon-facebook-twitter-youtuube/

Uruguai resiste ao cerco do coronavírus https://internacional.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,uruguai-resiste-ao-cerco-do-coronavirus,70003376991

10 vacinas que mudaram a História https://acervo.estadao.com.br/noticias/acervo,10-vacinas-que-mudaram-a-historia,70003373580,0.htm

Bolsonaro libera recorde de rádios comunitárias desde o governo Lula https://politica.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,bolsonaro-libera-recorde-de-radios-comunitarias-desde-o-governo-lula,70003376580

O mito da natureza inesgotável e do ‘mato sem valor’ impulsionou desmatamento no Brasil https://sustentabilidade.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,o-mito-da-natureza-inesgotavel-e-do-mato-sem-valor-impulsionou-desmatamento-no-brasil,70003371363

Self-replicating Chernobyl mold could protect the ISS from space radiation https://www.cnet.com/news/self-replicating-chernobyl-mold-could-protect-the-iss-from-space-radiation/

A new DNA study offers insight into the horrific story of the trans-Atlantic slave trade https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/26/us/dna-transatlantic-slave-trade-study-scn-trnd/index.html

Local TV stations across the country set to air discredited ‘Plandemic’ researcher’s conspiracy theory about Fauci https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/24/media/sinclair-fauci-conspiracy-bolling/index.html

How the brain creates the subjective experience of time https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322953

The people creating an oasis with seawater https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/the-people-creating-an-oasis-with-seawater.html

You Really Don’t Need To Work So Much https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/you-really-dont-need-to-work-so-much

Microsoft told employees to work from home. One consequence was brutal