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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://www.technologyreview.com/f/615075/greenhouse-gas-climate-change-hfc23-china-india/

How Levitating Dust Shapes Airless Worlds https://youtu.be/Y-NGUOI6tP0

ESA opens oxygen plant, making air out of moondust https://phys.org/news/2020-01-esa-oxygen-air-moondust.html

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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

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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’ https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/16/tech/pelosi-shameful-facebook/index.html

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

Instagram drops IGTV button, but only 1% downloaded the app https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/18/igtv-button-gone/

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

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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 healthy https://www.marketwatch.com/story/7-rules-to-reduce-your-risk-of-alzheimers-and-keep-your-brain-healthy-2020-01-16

DeepMind found an AI learning technique also works in human brains
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2230327-deepmind-found-an-ai-learning-technique-also-works-in-human-brains/#ixzz6BHm0mJ3C

7 Things You Can Do to Reduce Your Risk of Dementia https://www.nextavenue.org/reduce-risk-of-dementia/

Pelosi says Republicans are “afraid” to allow new evidence at impeachment trial https://www.cbsnews.com/news/watch-live-speaker-nancy-pelosi-holds-weekly-press-conference-watch-live-stream-today-2020-01-16/

Pelosi criticizes Facebook https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1217845777810317313

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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/

College students demand schools ban facial recognition https://mashable.com/article/college-students-facial-recognition-ban/

Where nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 300-times stronger than CO2, is being emitted https://qz.com/1745204/maps-of-nitrous-oxide-emissions-a-potent-greenhouse-gas/

Strange particles found in Antarctica cannot be explained by physics
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2229988-strange-particles-found-in-antarctica-cannot-be-explained-by-physics/#ixzz6BBztG0eM

What We Can Learn From Ötzi the Iceman’s Hunting Pack https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-we-can-learn-otzis-hunting-pack-180973898/

Ötzi, the mummy http://www.iceman.it/en/the-mummy/