FIRE MARK ZUCKERBERG https://www.firemarkzuckerberg.com/ It’s Time to Break Up Facebook https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/sunday/chris-hughes-facebook-zuckerberg.html Facebook’s co-founder is making a terrible argument about online speech https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/9/18540407/facebook-co-founder-chris-hughes-op-ed-break-up-online-speech-first-amendment-problems Facebook ‘auto-generated’ extremist video https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48217827 Inside Facebook, the second-class workers who do the hardest job are waging a quiet battle https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/08/inside-facebook-second-class-workers-who-do-hardest-job-are-waging-quiet-battle/ How Corporate Delusions of Automation Fuel the Cruelty of Uber and Lyft […]

Open-Plan Offices Literally Make You Stupid, According to Harvard https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/open-plan-offices-literally-make-you-stupid-according-to-harvard.html Estudo mostra por que devemos explicar benefícios de alimentos a crianças https://saude.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,estudo-mostra-por-que-devemos-explicar-beneficios-de-alimentos-a-criancas,70002821515 Corridors https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002zcx “RobbinHood” ransomware takes down Baltimore City government networks https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/baltimore-city-government-hit-by-robbinhood-ransomware/ Genetically Tweaked Viruses Just Saved A Very Sick Teen https://www.wired.com/story/genetically-tweaked-viruses-just-saved-a-very-sick-teen/ Britain Just Went a Week Without Coal For the First Time in […]

Samsung’s 512GB microSD is a huge storage upgrade that’s cheaper than ever https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18531448/samsung-512gb-microsd-storage-sale-amazon Social media effect ‘tiny’ in teenagers, large study finds https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48147378 Vikings Casually Left Graffiti All Over Europe https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/05/06/viking-graffiti/ Facebook talked privacy, Google actually built it https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/07/show-dont-tell/ Global renewables growth has stalled—and that’s terrible news https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613498/global-renewable-growth-has-stalled-and-thats-terrible-news/ Explosions of universe’s first stars spewed powerful […]

Sunscreen Chemicals Soak All The Way Into Your Bloodstream https://www.wired.com/story/sunscreen-chemicals-soak-all-the-way-into-your-bloodstream/ Start-Ups Hoping to Fight Climate Change Struggle as Other Tech Firms Cash In https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/business/carbon-removal-technology-start-ups.html Artificial Intelligence Can Now Copy Your Voice: What Does That Mean For Humans? https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2019/05/06/artificial-intelligence-can-now-copy-your-voice-what-does-that-mean-for-humans/#7b4d2fdd72a2 ‘Tesla dream’ is dead as investors face ‘Tesla reality’ https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/06/tesla-dream-dead-investors-now-face-tesla-reality-market-watcher.html Impossible research produces 400-year El Nino record, […]

Leonardo’s ‘claw hand’ stopped him painting https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48151105 The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture Stonehenge: DNA reveals origin of builders https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47938188 Nature loss: Report to show scale of ‘silent crisis’ https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48160456 Scaling solutions for the developing world http://news.mit.edu/2019/d-lab-design-for-scale-0505 A história dos “pisos de caquinhos em São Paulo” http://www.saopauloinfoco.com.br/piso-de-caquinhos-sp/ Computational models for the evolution of […]

A Conversation with Mark Zuckerberg and Yuval Noah Harari https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/04/marks-challenge-yuval-noah-harari/ New type of dementia identified https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48092570 The power of music: Vicky McClure’s dementia choir https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-48124591 Gravitational waves hunt now in overdrive https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48137011 LIGO may have spotted a black hole-neutron star merger https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/ligo-may-have-spotted-a-black-hole-neutron-star-merger/ Deep Solar Minimum Fast-Approaching: Cosmic Rays Continue To Rise http://www.thegwpf.com/deep-solar-minimum-fast-approaching-cosmic-rays-continue-to-rise/ What Jane Jacobs […]

The Uber I.P.O. Is a Moral Stain on Silicon Valley https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/opinion/uber-ipo.html France’s fascinating ‘wine treatment’ http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190501-frances-fascinating-wine-treatment The Dutch art investigator on a mission to recover stolen works of art. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p05bvyy5 Antiquities looted in Syria and Iraq are sold on Facebook https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-47628369 A Conversation with Mark Zuckerberg and Yuval Noah Harari https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/04/marks-challenge-yuval-noah-harari/ Facebook’s redesign is pretty, […]

Scientists seek genetic answer to predatory nature of invasive lionfish https://newatlas.com/genetics-lionfish-invasions/59450/ Apple has booted apps from its store that let parents monitor screen time https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613444/apple-has-booted-apps-that-let-parents-monitor-screen-time-from-the-app-store/ Renewable energy will surpass coal in April & May https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/04/29/renewable-energy-will-surpass-coal-in-april-may/ America’s renewable energy set to surpass coal for the first month ever https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/29/business/renewable-energy-coal-solar/index.html Get ready for tens of millions of […]

Walking the City with Jane: An Illustrated Celebration of Jane Jacobs and Her Legacy of Livable Cities https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/06/13/walking-the-city-with-jane-jacobs/ This AI-generated musak shows us the limit of artificial creativity https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613430/this-ai-generated-musak-shows-us-the-limit-of-artificial-creativity/ Amazon’s system for tracking its warehouse workers can automatically fire them https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613434/amazons-system-for-tracking-its-warehouse-workers-can-automatically-fire-them/ Epidemia de ignorância: movimento contra vacinas gera preocupação mundial https://revistagalileu.globo.com/Ciencia/Saude/noticia/2019/04/epidemia-de-ignorancia-movimento-contra-vacinas-gera-preocupacao-mundial.html Putting Down Your Phone […]

Texto sobre ‘cura do câncer’ distorce fatos e aponta falsa conspiração https://politica.estadao.com.br/blogs/estadao-verifica/texto-sobre-cura-do-cancer-distorce-fatos-e-aponta-falsa-conspiracao/ Gestão Salles exclui da internet dados de áreas prioritárias para conservação http://www.diretodaciencia.com/2019/04/25/gestao-salles-exclui-da-internet-dados-de-areas-prioritarias-para-conservacao/ Brasil liderou desmatamento de florestas primárias no mundo em 2018, mostra relatório https://g1.globo.com/natureza/noticia/2019/04/25/brasil-liderou-desmatamento-de-florestas-primarias-no-mundo-em-2018-mostra-relatorio.ghtml Drones are now delivering life-saving medicines to remote parts of Ghana https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613423/drones-are-now-delivering-life-saving-medicines-to-remote-parts-of-ghana/ A robotic catheter has autonomously wound […]