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Your Ad Here—Uber Moves Into Car-Top Digital Billboards https://www.wired.com/story/your-ad-here-uber-car-top-digital-billboards/

MIT Published a List of the 9 Megatrends That Will Shape the World in 2030. Here’s What They All Have in Common https://www.inc.com/sean-wise/mit-published-a-list-of-9-megatrends-that-will-shape-world-in-2030-heres-what-they-all-have-in-common.html

The World in 2030: Nine Megatrends to Watch https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-world-in-2030-nine-megatrends-to-watch/

Why being gay in Russia is about “love and passion” https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-51473739/why-being-gay-in-russia-is-about-love-and-passion

Coronavirus: Fake news is spreading fast https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51646309

Spread of Virus Could Hasten the Great Coming Apart of Globalization https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/world/europe/coronavirus-globalization-backlash.html

From the Vault: Split Brain, Part 1 https://pca.st/44r4r7d2

Overconfidence: Hubris and Nemesis https://pca.st/3z2z7mf1

Tesla Autopilot crash driver ‘was playing video game’ https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51645566

Spanish flu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu

China may send ducks to battle Pakistan’s locust swarms https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51658145

How Hard Will The Robots Make Us Work? https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/27/21155254/automation-robots-unemployment-jobs-vs-human-google-amazon

Brain Scans Reveal a New Schizophrenia Type That Almost Looks Like a ‘Healthy’ Brain https://www.sciencealert.com/brain-scans-reveal-a-second-type-of-schizophrenia-and-it-looks-surprisingly-normal

Defeated Chess Champ Garry Kasparov Has Made Peace With AI https://www.wired.com/story/defeated-chess-champ-garry-kasparov-made-peace-ai/

Stephen Fry’s Seven Deadly Sins – Wrath https://pca.st/t7vfhjll

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Brown; color is weird https://youtu.be/wh4aWZRtTwU

‘The Scream’ Is Fading. New Research Reveals Why. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/arts/design/the-scream-edvard-munch-science.html

Ink Rx? Welcome to the World of Paramedical Tattoos https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/style/paramedical-tattoos.html

Here’s where Jeff Bezos could start spending that $10 billion tackling climate change https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615242/heres-where-jeff-bezos-could-start-spending-that-10-billion-on-climate/

The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615181/ai-openai-moonshot-elon-musk-sam-altman-greg-brockman-messy-secretive-reality/

OpenAI Charter https://openai.com/charter/

The simple maths error that can lead to bankruptcy https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200217-the-simple-maths-error-that-can-lead-to-bankruptcy

Volksempfänger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksempf%C3%A4nger

Algorithms might be better than us at predicting whether people will reoffend https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615241/algorithms-might-be-better-than-us-at-predicting-whether-people-will-reoffend/

‘Difamação ao jornalismo é tática manjada de governantes’, diz Natuza Nery https://g1.globo.com/globonews/jornal-globonews-edicao-das-16/video/difamacao-ao-jornalismo-e-tatica-manjada-de-governantes-diz-natuza-nery-8333147.ghtml

China Expels 3 Wall Street Journal Reporters as Media Relations Sour https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/19/business/media/china-wall-street-journal.html

Hackers can trick a Tesla into accelerating by 50 miles per hour https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615244/hackers-can-trick-a-tesla-into-accelerating-by-50-miles-per-hour/

Meet the unknown female mathematician whose calculations helped discover Pluto https://www.space.com/human-computer-elizabeth-williams-pluto-discovery.html

Baumgartner Restoration https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvZe6ZCbF9xgbbbdkiodPKQ

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Scientists May Have Found a Way to Treat All Cancers… By Accident https://youtu.be/e-V_MDVgISo

Cidades-esponja: conheça iniciativas pelo mundo para combater enchentes em centros urbanos https://g1.globo.com/mundo/noticia/2020/02/16/cidades-esponja-conheca-iniciativas-pelo-mundo-para-combater-enchentes-em-centros-urbanos.ghtml

Mediterranean diet scores another win for longevity by improving microbiome https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/17/health/mediterranean-diet-microbiome-wellness/index.html

Is Capitalism A Threat To Democracy?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/is-capitalism-a-threat-to-democracy

This photo triggered China’s Cultural Revolution https://youtu.be/kXByOrRrO7c

The high-stakes fight over Bolivia’s lithium https://www.protocol.com/bolivia-lithium-morales

Ultrasonic bracelet jams the microphones around you https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/15/ultrasonic-microphone-jamming-bracelet/

Planners talk about resilience in the face of climate change. We need to start using a different R word. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/17/climate-hope-best-prepare-worst/

Seeding oceans with iron may not impact climate change http://news.mit.edu/2020/oceans-iron-not-impact-climate-change-0217

Empresa espiã da CIA teve acesso direto a dados sobre violações de ditaduras sul-americanas https://internacional.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,ditaduras-da-america-do-sul-usaram-maquinas-de-criptografia-da-cia,70003200765

Stopped Clock Illusion https://youtu.be/nNBTLbw1_2Q

7 Deadly Sins http://www.stephenfry.com/7deadlysins/

Why Is Blue So Rare In Nature? https://youtu.be/3g246c6Bv58

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Can a blood pressure drug help ease the painful memory of an ex? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51317388

This French Woman Risked Her Life to Document Nazi Theft https://youtu.be/bLlHuxapK68

Neuschwanstein Castle Bankrupted the King Who Built it https://youtu.be/_bATY21knQ4

No more business as usual? https://www.marketplace.org/shows/make-me-smart-with-kai-and-molly

Are ‘Near-Death Experiences’ Real? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/opinion/near-death-experience.html

Facebook say influencer memes are not political ads https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51511226

Three simple tips for making better decisions https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/three-simple-tips-for-making-better-decisions/p0837fww?playlist=bbc-bitesize

The lethal legacy of early 20th-century radiation quackery https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/the-lethal-legacy-of-early-20th-century-radiation-quackery/2020/02/14/ed1fd724-37c9-11ea-bf30-ad313e4ec754_story.html

The fake ‘kitchen hacks’ with billions of views https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-51504484/the-fake-kitchen-hacks-with-billions-of-views

“ENTRE RIOS” – a urbanização de São Paulo https://youtu.be/Fwh-cZfWNIc

Chuva Extrema Vai Exigir Que Sp Repense Entorno De Rios https://www.estadao.com.br/infograficos/cidades,chuva-extrema-vai-exigir-que-sp-repense-entorno-de-rios,1075987

Was Jeanne Calment The Oldest Person Who Ever Lived—Or A Fraud? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/17/was-jeanne-calment-the-oldest-person-who-ever-lived-or-a-fraud

Occam’s Razor https://play.pocketcasts.com/podcasts/68210b00-0423-012e-f9a0-00163e1b201c/f525d807-a669-493b-9906-88403956c03b

Richard Feynman Creates a Simple Method for Telling Science From Pseudoscience (1966) http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/richard-feynman-creates-a-simple-method-for-telling-science-from-pseudoscience-1966.html

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O futuro do trabalho – Lado B https://www.hsm.com.br/o-futuro-do-trabalho-lado-b/

Rats will devour your car https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/02/13/rats-will-devour-your-car/

Reconhecimento facial no Metrô pode ter ‘consequências desastrosas’, alertam advogados https://politica.estadao.com.br/blogs/fausto-macedo/reconhecimento-facial-no-metro-pode-ter-consequencias-desastrosas-alertam-advogados/

A snowman-shaped space rock is teaching us how planets form https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615208/a-snowman-shaped-space-rock-is-teaching-us-how-planets-form/

A Crisis Right Now: San Francisco and Manila Face Rising Seas https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/13/climate/manila-san-francisco-sea-level-rise.html

What happened to winter? Jet stream science explains unseasonable warmth in U.S. https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/what-happened-winter-jet-stream-science-explains-unseasonable-warmth-u-n1136136

We should stop sending humans into space to do a robot’s job https://qz.com/1666726/we-should-stop-sending-humans-into-space/

The full extent of World War II damage to Big Ben has only just been discovered https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/13/uk/big-ben-restoration-wwii-damage-scli-gbr-intl/index.html

‘Ghost’ DNA In West Africans Complicates Story Of Human Origins https://www.npr.org/2020/02/12/805237120/ghost-dna-in-west-africans-complicates-story-of-human-origins

The Bayesian Trap https://youtu.be/R13BD8qKeTg

Why Space Over South America is Deadly for Satellites https://youtu.be/w-nfF7bK34Y

Antarctic island hits record temperature of 20.75C https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51500692

Low-cost “smart” diaper can notify caregiver when it’s wet http://news.mit.edu/2020/smart-diaper-rfid-notify-caregiver-0214

Antarctic ice melt could push sea levels to rise 1.5 metres by 2100
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2233619-antarctic-ice-melt-could-push-sea-levels-to-rise-1-5-metres-by-2100/#ixzz6DvQdB5N7