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We May Finally Know How the Universe’s Heavy Elements Formed https://www.space.com/strontium-heavy-element-formed-neutron-star-merger.html
Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html
Jack Dorsey says ‘hell no’ to joining Libra https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/24/20931058/jack-dorsey-twitter-libra-association-join
Earth’s rocks can absorb a shocking amount of carbon: here’s how https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/10/earth-rocks-can-absorb-shocking-amount-of-carbon/
A Health Care Algorithm Offered Less Care to Black Patients https://www.wired.com/story/how-algorithm-favored-whites-over-blacks-health-care/
Earthquakes Are Jolting the Netherlands. Gas Drilling Is to Blame. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/business/energy-environment/netherlands-gas-earthquakes.html
Critics say Facebook’s Libra threatens America’s power. Zuck says they’ve got it all wrong. https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614621/critics-say-facebooks-libra-threatens-americas-power-zuck-says-theyve-got-it-all-wrong/
The New Ways Your Boss Is Spying on You https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-ways-your-boss-is-spying-on-you-11563528604
Employees say Google is trying to spy on them. That’ll be hard to prove. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614623/google-spying-employees-calendar-extension-surveillance-workplace-labor-law-nlra-nlrb/
Discover the Persian 11th Century Canon of Medicine, “The Most Famous Medical Textbook Ever Written” http://www.openculture.com/2019/10/discover-the-persian-11th-century-canon-of-medicine.html
People ‘more likely to feel pain on humid days’ https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50151723
Pesticide poisoned French paradise islands in Caribbean https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50144261
Earthworms’ place on Earth mapped https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50157313
Italian police bust ‘Mafia plastic recycling ring’ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50177280
Uluru climbing ban: Tourists scale sacred rock for final time https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-50151344
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence