How a vegan diet could affect your intelligence https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200127-how-a-vegan-diet-could-affect-your-intelligence

The man who changed how we think about disruption—and got disrupted himself https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615107/the-man-who-changed-how-we-think-about-disruptionand-got-disrupted-himself/

“A Trillion Trees” is a great idea—that could become a dangerous climate distraction https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615102/tree-planting-is-a-great-idea-that-could-become-a-dangerous-climate-distraction/

Greta Versus the Greedy Grifters https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/opinion/greta-thunberg-mnuchin.html

Parkinson’s disease may affect brain before birth https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/parkinsons-disease-may-affect-brain-before-birth/

We Made the Coronavirus Epidemic https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/opinion/coronavirus-china.html

Polícia de SP passa a usar reconhecimento facial em investigações https://sao-paulo.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,policia-de-sp-passa-a-usar-reconhecimento-facial-em-investigacoes,70003175810

London to deploy live facial recognition to find wanted faces in a crowd https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/london-to-deploy-live-facial-recognition-to-find-wanted-faces-in-crowd/

Dozens Of Countries Could Reverse Carbon Emissions Just By Caring For Nature https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2020/01/26/38-countries-could-reverse-most-or-all-of-their-carbon-emissions-just-by-caring-for-nature/#58f4fcf83e9e

Doomsday Clock nears apocalypse over climate and nuclear fears https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51213185

Antarctica melting: Climate change and the journey to the ‘doomsday glacier’ https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51097309

Underwater robot reveals hidden base of Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ glacier

Lab turns trash into valuable graphene in a flash https://phys.org/news/2020-01-lab-trash-valuable-graphene.html

How the world came to run on coffee http://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/made-on-earth/how-the-world-came-to-run-on-coffee/

A World Without Clouds https://www.quantamagazine.org/cloud-loss-could-add-8-degrees-to-global-warming-20190225/

Paper wasps rapidly evolved ability to identify faces http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/01/paper-wasps-rapidly-evolved-ability-identify-faces

‘Profound’ evolution: Wasps learn to recognize faces https://phys.org/news/2020-01-profound-evolution-wasps.html

AI License Plate Readers Are Cheaper—So Drive Carefully https://www.wired.com/story/ai-license-plate-readers-cheaper-drive-carefully/

40 groups have called for a US moratorium on facial recognition technology https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615098/facial-recognition-clearview-ai-epic-privacy-moratorium-surveillance/

Facebook, Google and Twitter scramble to stop misinformation about coronavirus https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/01/27/facebook-google-twitter-scramble-stop-misinformation-about-coronavirus/

Reproducibility crisis in science; Aeolus wind-measuring satellite; electric cars https://pca.st/cccmkh6n

Greed https://pca.st/oi3e8mr5

Ruthless behavior may be genetic https://medicalxpress.com/news/2008-04-ruthless-behavior-genetic.html

China’s coronavirus lockdown — brought to you by authoritarianism https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/01/27/chinas-coronavirus-lockdown-brought-you-by-authoritarianism/

Scientists Say We Need These 6 Things For Us to Meet Our Climate Goals https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-say-these-6-things-have-to-happen-for-us-to-meet-our-climate-goals

Em Israel, mostra traz traços desde Tutancâmon até a era dos emojis

Brazil’s pick of a creationist to lead its higher education agency rattles scientists https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/brazils-pick-creationist-lead-its-higher-education-agency-rattles-scientists

Novo presidente da Capes defende criacionismo em ‘contraponto à teoria da evolução’ https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/educacao/2020/01/novo-presidente-da-capes-defende-criacionismo-em-contraponto-a-teoria-da-evolucao.shtml

Billionaire Salesforce founder: ‘Capitalism as we know it is dead’ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/davos-2020-salesforce-founder-capitalism-is-dead-181643945.html

You Are Now Remotely Controlled https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sunday/surveillance-capitalism.html

Amazon workers criticize company’s record on climate change https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-workers-criticize-companys-record-on-climate-change-2020-01-26

India Restores Some Internet Access in Kashmir After Long Shutdown https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/world/asia/kashmir-internet-shutdown-india.html

O cisne verde https://opiniao.estadao.com.br/noticias/notas-e-informacoes,o-cisne-verde,70003173805

video: a técnica secreta para influenciar pessoas https://youtu.be/dXq6MQlsV54

A ciência que ‘engana para o bem’ chega à gestão pública https://politica.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,a-ciencia-que-engana-para-o-bem-chega-a-gestao-publica,70003172901

Can’t See The River For The Trees https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/trees-water/

Netflix and Chill https://pca.st/l9tymj1a

Instagram rejected model’s rosacea images https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-london-51210037/instagram-rejected-model-s-rosacea-images

Uma pequena revolução https://ciencia.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,

The Neanderthals That Taught Us About Humanity https://youtu.be/h777yfE39O8

Coronavirus: What’s the difference between pandemic and epidemic? https://www.bbc.com/news/av/health-51224894/coronavirus-what-s-the-difference-between-pandemic-and-epidemic

Coronavirus Live Updates: China’s Travel Limits Now Cover 35 Million People https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/world/asia/china-coronavirus.html

China coronavirus: Death toll rises as more cities restrict travel https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51230011

Coronavirus: Chinese embassy in Paris finds woman who ‘cheated’ checks https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51231593

Virus in Chinese outbreak is closest to one from bats, not snakes https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615087/virus-in-chinese-outbreak-is-closest-to-one-from-bats-not-snakes/

Many in China Wear Them, but Do Masks Block Coronavirus? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/health/coronavirus-surgical-masks.html

Infecção de humanos por novo coronavírus pode ter começado em cobras, indica estudo https://saude.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,infeccao-de-humanos-por-novo-coronavirus-pode-ter-comecado-em-cobras-indica-estudo,70003169334

Cobras podem ser origem de infecção https://digital.estadao.com.br/search?query=cobra&newspapers=2025&startDate=2020-1-24&stopDate=2020-1-24&hideSimilar=1&type=2&state=3

Locusts: UN calls for international help in East Africa https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-51234135

Scientists discover ‘why stress turns hair white’ https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51208972

Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51233444

This Bill Gates-Backed Company Is Developing a Possibly World-Changing Nuclear Reactor https://www.sciencealert.com/a-bill-gates-backed-energy-company-is-developing-what-co...

Prince Charles calls on business leaders to tackle the “approaching [climate] catastrophe”, asking them “what good is all the wealth in the world… if you can do nothing with it but watch it burn” https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1219990951298502662

These Billionaires Made Their Fortunes by Trying to Stop Climate Change https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-green-billionaires/

Demolição de prédios históricos foi motivada por arquitetos modernistas https://epoca.globo.com/ideias/noticia/2015/03/bdemolicao-de-predios-historicosb-foi-motivada-por-arquitetos-modernistas.html

UN calls for investigation of Saudis allegedly hacking Jeff Bezos https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615081/un-calls-for-investigation-of-saudis-allegedly-hacking-jeff-bezos/

How Jeff Bezos’ iPhone X Was Hacked https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/technology/jeff-bezos-hack-iphone.html

Mapping the spread of the new coronavirus https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/01/22/mapping-spread-new-coronavirus/?arc404=true

What Was the Ancestor of Everything? (feat. PBS Space Time and It’s Okay To Be Smart) https://youtu.be/pk213XSSktQ

Behavioral disorders in children tied to gut bacteria, study shows https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/gut-bacteria-behavioral-disorder/283-78fd62b5-dc39-4925-acb6-6bd67d58367f

The microbes in your gut could predict whether you’re likely to die in the next 15 years https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/microbes-your-gut-could-predict-whether-you-re-likely-die-next-15-years

Kintai’s obesity drug that works via the gut microbiome moves closer to the clinic https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/kintai-s-manipulation-gut-microbiome-for-obesity-treatment-moves-closer-to-clinical-trial

Precise radiometric age establishes Yarrabubba, Western Australia, as Earth’s oldest recognised meteorite impact structure https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13985-7

The Macabre Science of Mass Animal Die-Offs

Remarkable New T-Cell Discovery Can Kill Several Cancer Types in The Lab https://www.sciencealert.com/new-t-cell-therapy-kills-most-human-cancer-types-and-might-work-across-individuals

People still want plastic bottles, says Coca-Cola https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51197463

Study uses physics to explain democratic elections https://news.mit.edu/2020/study-physics-democratic-elections-0121

Google favors temporary facial recognition ban as Microsoft pushes back https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/21/21075001/facial-recognition-ban-google-microsoft-eu-sundar-pichai-brad-smith

Google boss Sundar Pichai calls for AI regulation https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51178198

Your kid’s phone probably isn’t causing depression https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615071/your-kids-phone-probably-isnt-making-them-depressed/

Force social-media firms to share data to cut teen suicides, say psychiatrists https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615069/force-social-media-firms-to-share-data-to-cut-teen-suicides-say-psychiatrists/

Leia Vale a Pena: The Hidden Half – Michael Blastland https://leiavaleapena.tumblr.com/post/186769996423/leia-vale-a-pena-the-hidden-half-michael

The Messy Math Of Mammograms https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/math-mammograms/ESA opens oxygen plant, making air out of moondust https://phys.org/news/2020-01-esa-oxygen-air-moondust.html

BBC Radio 4 – Living With The Gods https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09c1mhy

Living with gods: a secular icon from the Soviet era https://youtu.be/jNxSAOu-IKI

CFCs responsible for half of Arctic sea-ice loss https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/cfcs-responsible-for-half-of-arctic-sea-ice-loss/4011037.article

There’s been a huge spike in one of the world’s most potent greenhouse gases https://...

Immune discovery ‘may treat all cancer’ https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51182451

Stephen Fry’s 7 Deadly Sins http://www.stephenfry.com/7deadlysins/

He Wanted a Unicorn. He Got … a Sustainable Business https://www.wired.com/story/he-wanted-unicorn-got-sustainable-business/

Malaysia has sent back tons of plastic waste to rich countries, saying it won’t be their ‘garbage dump’ https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/20/asia/malaysia-plastic-waste-return-scli-intl/index.html

Portugal reaches 100% renewables, ends fossil fuel subsidies https://reneweconomy.com.au/portugal-reaches-100-renewables-ends-fossil-fuel-subsidies-32820/

Is rationality overrated? https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/1/20/21068423/rationality-behavioral-economics-psychology-reasonable-decisions

Conservative States Seek Billions to Brace for Disaster. (Just Don’t Call It Climate Change.) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/climate/climate-change-funding-states.html

Australia had plans to prevent fire blackouts. They just weren’t ready in time. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615062/australia-had-plans-to-prevent-fire-blackouts-they-just-werent-ready-in-time/

Microsoft will invest $1 billion into carbon reduction and removal technologies https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615066/microsoft-will-invest-1-billion-into-carbon-reduction-and-removal-technologies/

Microsoft’s billion-dollar investment in carbon removal https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/microsofts-billion-dollar-investment-in-carbon-removal/

Tim Cook diz que sistema tributário precisa ser reformulado https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/empresas,tim-cook-diz-que-sistema-tributario-precisa-ser-reformulado,70003166158

Aldous Huxley to George Orwell: My Hellish Vision of the Future is Better Than Yours (1949) http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/aldous-huxley-george-orwell-hellish-vision-future-better-1949.html

National Archives exhibit blurs images critical of President Trump https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/national-archives-exhibit-blurs-images-critical-of-president-trump/2020/01/17/71d8e80c-37e3-11ea-9541-9107303481a4_story.html

a manchete exagerada: Encontrado o organismo que explica a origem de toda a vida complexa da Terra https://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2020/01/17/ciencia/1579284583_584643.html

a manchete séria: This Strange Microbe May Mark One of Life’s Great Leaps https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/science/cells-eukaryotes-archaea.html

The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html

The next big privacy scare is a face recognition tool you’ve never heard of https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2020/01/20/the-next-big-privacy-scare-is-a-face-recognition-tool-youve-never-heard-of/

The EU might ban facial recognition in public for five years https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615068/facial-recognition-european-union-temporary-ban-privacy-ethics-regulation/

Common foods alter gut bacteria by influencing viruses https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/327486.php#1

Vídeos de YouTube com informações falsas somam milhões de visualizações e alimentam debate político no WhatsApp https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2020/01/19/videos-de-youtube-com-informacoes-falsas-somam-milhoes-de-visualizacoes-e-alimentam-debate-politico-no-whatsapp.ghtml

Biden wants Sec. 230 gone, calls tech “totally irresponsible,” “little creeps” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/joe-biden-is-so-mad-at-facebook-he-wants-to-revoke-sec-230-for-everyone/

Pelosi calls Facebook a ‘shameful’ company that helped in ‘misleading the American people’

Google results for probiotics are totally unreliable https://www.popsci.com/story/health/probiotics-misleading-information/

Even Ultra-Tough Water Bears May Be Vulnerable to Climate Change https://www.wired.com/story/water-bears-climate-change/

Pelosi calls Facebook a ‘shameful’ company that helped in ‘misleading the American people’ https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/16/tech/pelosi-shameful-facebook/index.html

Colgate finally launched its recyclable toothpaste tube. It’s made from the same type of plastic as milk jugs https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/15/business/colgate-recycle-toothpaste-tube-trnd/index.html

US lawmakers concerned by accuracy of facial recognition https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51130904

Evolutionary Dynamics Do Not Motivate a Single-Mutant Theory of Human Language https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-57235-8

Why did the dinosaurs go extinct? New study hopes to put debate to rest https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/16/world/dinosaur-extinction-volcanoes-asteroid-scn/index.html

Nestlé is spending billions to create a market for recycled plastics https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/16/business/nestle-recycled-plastics/index.html

Scientists Argue a ‘Corpse Signal’ Will Be Left in The Fossil Record of Our Time https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-argue-the-age-of-humans-will-be-unmistakable-in-the-fossil-record-of-our-time

Pig study sheds new light on sugar’s addictive impacts on the brain https://newatlas.com/medical/pig-study-sugar-brain/

Can Gut Bacteria Pass Diseases Like Alzheimer’s and Diabetes Among People? A Theory Says It Might Be Possible https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/can-gut-bacteria-pass-diseases-like-alzheimers-and-diabetes-among-people-a

YouTube advertisers blindsided by climate change denial videos https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/16/21066906/youtube-climate-change-denial-avaaz-samsung-uber-nintendo

7 rules to reduce your risk of Alzheimer’s and keep your brain hea...

Man Against Horse (This is a story about your butt) https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/man-against-horse

Want to Stop Australia’s Fires? Listen to Aboriginal People https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/opinion/australia-fires-aboriginal-people.html

Why string theory persists — despite the knotty physics https://www.space.com/string-theory-started-off-wrong.html

Exhibit 9,172 that global warming is an urgent threat https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/15/politics/climate-crisis-global-warming/index.html

The Evil List https://slate.com/technology/2020/01/evil-list-tech-companies-dangerous-amazon-facebook-google-palantir.html

Yup, 2019 was the second-hottest year on record https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615058/yup-2019-was-the-second-hottest-year-on-record/

2019 Was the Second-Hottest Year Ever, Closing Out the Warmest Decade https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/15/climate/hottest-year-2019.html

Why activists want to ban facial recognition on college campuses before it arrives https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/1/14/21063689/facial-recognition-college-campuses-universities-fight-for-the-future

Why Is Air Pollution So Harmful? DNA May Hold the Answer https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/science/air-pollution-fires-genes.html

Modeling what would happen to the UK if the Gulf Stream shuts down https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/modeling-what-would-happen-to-the-uk-if-the-gulf-stream-shuts-down/

Antarctic Experiment Reveals Strange ‘Ghost’ Particles That Physicists Can’t Explain https://www.sciencealert.com/standard-physics-has-been-ruled-out-for-neutrino-like-particles-slipping-through-our-planet

Australia’s fires have pumped out more emissions than 100 nations combined https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615035/australias-fires-have-pumped-out-more-emissions-than-100-nations-combined/