Early humans domesticated themselves, new genetic evidence suggests https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/early-humans-domesticated-themselves-new-genetic-evidence-suggests

Tame foxes taught us about animal domestication. But did we get the story wrong? https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/12/03/tame-foxes-taught-us-about-animal-domestication-did-we-get-story-wrong/

A silicon chip that mimics the brain’s neurons could help fight paralysis https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614819/a-silicon-chip-that-mimics-the-brains-neurons-could-help-fight-paralysis/

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Is Unlocking the Sun’s Mysteries https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/science/nasa-parker-solar-probe-pictures.html

The closest ever approach to the sun has shown us the origin of solar wind https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614820/the-closest-ever-approach-to-the-sun-has-shown-us-the-origin-of-solar-wind/

Why Climate Alarmism Hurts Us All https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/12/04/why-climate-alarmism-hurts-us-all/#34db60a136d8

The Arctic Is Warming Much Faster Than the Rest of Earth https://www.wired.com/story/the-arctic-is-warming-much-faster-than-the-rest-of-earth/

Bye-bye, birdie: Study finds North American birds getting smaller https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-birds-idUSKBN1Y82NJ

Food for thought about manipulating gut bacteria https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03704-z

What’s the Fastest Speed a Person Could Run? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRXlm8fypNM&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=SciShow

What’s ‘Fair’ When It Comes to Carbon Emissions? The average American and Australian generates nearly 3½ times the global average of carbon dioxide pollution. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/opinion/global-climate-change.html

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China’s Schoolchildren Are Now the Smartest in the World https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-03/china-shines-in-education-as-richest-economies-fail-to-improve

Silicon Valley giants accused of avoiding over $100 billion in taxes over the last decade https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/02/silicon-valley-giants-accused-of-avoiding-100-billion-in-taxes.html

Coated seeds may enable agriculture on marginal lands http://news.mit.edu/2019/coated-seeds-agriculture-marginal-lands-1125

Cryptocurrency and national insecurity https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/11/crisis-simulation-maps-national-security-risks-of-digital-currency/

Opinion: We need to know what happened to CRISPR twins Lulu and Nana https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614762/crispr-baby-twins-lulu-and-nana-what-happened/

Reusable plastic shopping bags are actually making the problem worse, not better https://qz.com/1759150/reusable-plastic-shopping-bags-are-making-the-problem-worse/

Quantum field theory: “An unholy crossbreed between quantum physics in a bad mood and every button you never push on a calculator” https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/quantum-field-theory-an-unholy-crossbreed-between-quantum-physics-in-a-bad-mood-and-every-button-you-never-push-on-a-calculator/

Pisa: Brasil tem leve melhora em prova mundial, mas 4 em 10 alunos não aprendem o básico https://educacao.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,brasil-melhora-em-prova-mundial-de-educacao-mas-4-em-10-alunos-nao-aprendem-nem-o-basico,70003111386

Toward more efficient computing, with magnetic waves http://news.mit.edu/2019/computing-magnetic-waves-efficient-1128

Ring gave police a detailed map of area doorbell installations https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/03/amazon-ring-video-doorbell-police-map/

BRF procura cientistas para evitar desperdício de comida https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/inovacao,brf-procura-cientistas-para-evitar-desperdicio-de-comida,70003112534

Os números do Pisa https://opiniao.estadao.com.br/noticias/notas-e-informacoes,os-numeros-do-pisa,70003112522

Escolas privadas de elite do Brasil superam Finlândia no Pisa; rede pública vai pior do que Peru https://educacao.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,escolas-privadas-de-elite-do-brasil-superam-finlandia-no-pisa-rede-publica-vai-pior-do-que-peru,70003112767

Amid Breakdown In Nuclear Talks, North Korea Threatens U.S. With ‘Christmas Gift’ https://www.npr.org/2019/12/03/784380119/amid-breakdown-in-nuclear-talks-north-korea-threatens-u-s-with-christmas-gift

Archaeological Skeletons From London Prove Some Romans Were Lead Poisoned https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2019/11/29/archaeological-skeletons-from-london-prove-some-romans-were-lead-poisoned/#1e4e8dc048cc

The Pure Chaos of Magnetic Fields May Explain The Intense Shine of Black Holes https://www.sciencealert.com/pure-chaos-of-magnetic-fields-could-be-responsible-for-the-black-hole-s-intense-shine

We need to halve emissions by 2030. They rose again in 2019. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614801/we-need-to-halve-emissions-by-2030-they-rose-iagain-i-in-2019/#Echobox=1575409820

Russia plans to replace “unreliable” Wikipedia with its own version https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614804/russia-plans-to-replace-unreliable-wikipedia-with-its-own-version/

Fuga de talentos https://educacao.estadao.com.br/blogs/ana-maria-diniz/fuga-de-talentos/

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Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich

We’re losing our climate battle. We have no one but ourselves to blame. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/were-losing-our-climate-battle-we-have-no-one-but-ourselves-to-blame/2019/12/02/efe4ce2c-1548-11ea-9110-3b34ce1d92b1_story.html

China Uses DNA to Map Faces, With Help From the West https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/business/china-dna-uighurs-xinjiang.html

SUVs Are Worse for the Climate Than You Ever Imagined https://www.wired.com/story/suvs-are-worse-for-the-climate-than-you-ever-imagined/

Why climate change is an irrelevance, economic growth is a myth and sustainability is forty years too late http://globalcomment.com/why-climate-change-is-an-irrelevance-economic-growth-is-a-myth-and-sustainability-is-forty-years-too-late/

The Biggest Herb on Earth is… a Banana?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNMfTkDZlFQ&ab_channel=SciShow

Climate change is forcing one person from their home every two seconds, Oxfam says https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/01/world/oxfam-climate-displacement-intl-scli/index.html

Sham news sites make big bucks from fake views https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50432080

China due to introduce face scans for mobile users https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50587098

An Epidemic of AI Misinformation https://thegradient.pub/an-epidemic-of-ai-misinformation/

A Reporter Took DNA Tests in the U.S. and China. The Results Left Her Worried https://fortune.com/2019/11/30/dna-tests-us-china-results/

Here Are Five of The Main Reasons People Continue to Deny Climate Change https://www.sciencealert.com/the-five-corrupt-pillars-of-climate-change-denial

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Were Neanderthals, Denisovans and Other Archaic Humans Victims of Sixth Mass Extinction? http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/neanderthals-denisovans-archaic-humans-victims-sixth-mass-extinction-07858.html

Scientists used loudspeakers to make dead coral reefs sound healthy. Fish flocked to them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/12/01/scientists-used-loudspeakers-make-dead-coral-reefs-sound-healthy-fish-flocked-them/

The fall and rise of a spyware empire https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614767/the-fall-and-rise-of-a-spyware-empire/

Facebook bows to Singapore’s ‘fake news’ law with post ‘correction’ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50613341

Undiscovered Presents: Planet Of The Killer Apes https://pca.st/ffcbccu9

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Carro de Elon Musk mostra que a cara do futuro é velha e paradoxal… – Veja mais em https://tab.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2019/11/28/carro-de-elon-musk-mostra-que-a-cara-do-futuro-e-velha-e-esquizofrenica.htm

1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple’s Future https://gizmodo.com/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secrets-to-apples-future-343641

Our dangerous fear of pain https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/11/27/our-dangerous-fear-pain/

Why Humans Should Be Thankful That Our Universe Has Dark Matter https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/11/28/why-humans-should-be-thankful-that-our-universe-has-dark-matter/#652033346f8b

Twitter has to figure out what to do with dead people https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614772/twitter-has-to-finally-figure-out-what-to-do-with-dead-peoples-accounts/

A Russian troll farm may not have been very good at its job https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614756/russia-disinformation-twitter-internet-research-agency-social-media-politics/

Jet-powered VTOL drone is like a quadcopter on steroids https://newatlas.com/drones/ab5-jetquad-jet-powered-drone/

New Study Claims We Probably Didn’t Wipe Out The Neanderthals After All https://www.sciencealert.com/how-a-perfect-storm-of-sex-and-population-size-may-have-sealed-the-neanderthals-fate

Inside the frantic response to mysterious ‘slow-moving blob’ flying over Washington https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/28/politics/white-house-lockdown-scramble/index.html

SQUID drone is launched by a cannon from a moving truck https://ww.dronedj.com/2019/11/26/squid-drone-cannon-moving-truck/

Jony Ive has left Apple https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/28/20986838/jony-ive-last-day-apple

Danos ambientais e custos financeiros https://economia.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,danos-ambientais-e-custos-financeiros,70003105123

Goo Hara and the trauma of South Korea’s spy cam victims https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50582338

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