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Why kids don’t trust Alexa https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614863/why-kids-dont-trust-alexa/
Ultracrepidanismo e dogma https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/cultura-digital,ultracrepidanismo-e-dogma,70003119628
Samoa has become a case study for ‘anti-vax’ success https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/samoa-has-become-a-case-study-for-anti-vax-success/2019/12/09/76848830-1ac8-11ea-b4c1-fd0d91b60d9e_story.html
Facebook ads push misinformation about HIV prevention drugs, LGBT activists say, ‘harming public health’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/09/facebook-ads-are-pushing-misinformation-about-hiv-prevention-drugs-lgbt-activists-say-harming-public-health/
How chimpanzees reveal the roots of human behaviour http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20181101-how-chimpanzees-reveal-the-roots-of-human-behaviour
Climate change: 1.9 billion people rely on natural ‘water towers’ https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50707138
Australia bushfires: Sydney gets toughest water restrictions in a decade https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-50720143
The measles outbreak in Samoa must be a lesson for the rest of the world https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-measles-outbreak-in-samoa-must-be-a-lesson-for-the-rest-of-the-world/2019/12/08/df0d9274-183a-11ea-9110-3b34ce1d92b1_story.html
Buyer beware of this $1 million gene therapy for aging https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614873/buyer-beware-of-this-1-million-gene-therapy-for-aging/
Decision-making without a brain: how an amoeboid organism solves the two-armed bandit https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsif.2016.0030
A Brainless Slime That Shares Memories by Fusing https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/the-brainless-slime-that-can-learn-by-fusing/511295/
Cities in motion: how slime mould can redraw our rail and road maps https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/feb/18/slime-mould-rail-road-transport-routes
Measles deaths ‘staggering and tragic’ https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50659893
Exclusive: Two pigs engineered to have monkey cells born in China
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2226490-exclusive-two-pigs-engineered-to-have-monkey-cells-born-in-china/#ixzz67hYIjCwq