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Why Does Zoom Exhaust You? Science Has an Answer https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-does-zoom-exhaust-you-science-has-an-answer-11590600269

List of cognitive biases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

Manual de como abrir uma cidade em meio à covid-19 https://saude.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,manual-de-como-abrir-uma-cidade-em-meio-a-covid-19,70003315952

Scientists develop the most heat-resistant material ever created https://phys.org/news/2020-05-scientists-heat-resistant-material.html

Zeno’s Paradoxes https://pca.st/lr5owrp0

Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/opinion/george-floyd-minneapolis.html

Coronavirus: South Korea closes schools again after biggest spike in weeks https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52845015

Trump responds to Twitter’s fact-check by targeting social-media protections https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/28/1002357/trump-signs-social-media-order-after-twitter-fact-check/

Older users share more misinformation. Your guess why might be wrong. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/26/1002243/misinformation-older-adults/

New research on ‘endowment effect’ points to evolutionary roots of cognitive biases https://phys.org/news/2020-05-endowment-effect-evolutionary-roots-cognitive.html

Pi in the Sky: General Relativity Passes the Ratio’s Test https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pi-in-the-sky-general-relativity-passes-the-ratios-test/

A milestone in human genetics highlights diversity gaps https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01551-x

Strong convictions can blind us to information that challenges them https://neurosciencenews.com/convictions-information-16467/

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Vikings: Live from the British Museum https://youtu.be/NuL0Q0tsid4

Facebook ignorou alertas sobre poder polarizador de sua plataforma, diz jornal https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/empresas,facebook-ignorou-alertas-sobre-poder-polarizador-de-sua-plataforma-diz-jornal,70003316067

An almost perfectly efficient light-activated catalyst for producing hydrogen from water https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01455-w

The deep ocean is warming slowly—but dramatic changes are ahead https://phys.org/news/2020-05-deep-ocean-slowlybut.html

Space Apps COVID-19 Challenge https://covid19.spaceappschallenge.org/

Suits: Articles of Interest #10 https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/suits-articles-of-interest-10/

Humans Are on Their Way to Annihilating 50 Billion Years of Evolutionary History https://www.sciencealert.com/we-are-on-our-way-to-annihilating-50-billion-years-worth-of-evolutionary-history

Hydrogen as Fuel? An Italian Pasta Factory Shows How It Could Work https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/business/hydrogen-fuel-climate-change.html

That Time It Rained for Two Million Years https://youtu.be/_1LdMWlNYS4

Arctic Heatwave Is Reigniting Siberian Tinderbox https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-27/siberian-heatwave-points-to-a-longer-wildfire-season

The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West, with David Kilcullen and Carl Miller https://pca.st/j97a35nx

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Fighting COVID-19 With… Llamas?! https://youtu.be/XgE-9jPatQw

Twitter fact-checks a misleading Trump tweet for the first time https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/26/1002274/twitter-fact-checks-trump-mail-in-voting-tweet/

La historia de Carlos Gardel en la voz de uno de sus mejores biógrafos https://pca.st/wnjmczrd

How the Movement of Other Planets Affects Earth — Yes, Really https://youtu.be/RyYx2NzFDuY

The Cosmic Lasers That Form in Outer Space https://youtu.be/PivJJpx0u50

What Bill Gates hopes we learn from coronavirus https://youtu.be/jLbJayQygzw

Here’s what Bill Gates said about the internet in a Microsoft internal memo 25 years ago today: It’s a ‘tidal wave’ https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/26/how-bill-gates-described-the-internet-tidal-wave-in-1995.html

Dwarf galaxy collisions make stars form in Milky Way https://youtu.be/uNnPRrEvfhs

Galactic crash may have triggered solar system formation https://phys.org/news/2020-05-galactic-triggered-solar-formation.html

Dinosaur asteroid’s trajectory was ‘perfect storm’ https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52795929

Microbial cyborgs: Bacteria supplying power https://phys.org/news/2020-05-microbial-cyborgs-bacteria-power.html

Chimpanzees help trace the evolution of human speech back to ancient ancestors https://phys.org/news/2020-05-chimpanzees-evolution-human-speech-ancient.html

Novel electric impulses relieve the pain https://neurosciencenews.com/pain-electrical-impulses-16462/

The World’s Biggest Green Hydrogen Plant Is Planned For California. Its Prospects For Electric Power And Transportation? https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2020/05/26/the-worlds-biggest-green-hydrogen-plant-is-underway-in-california-its-prospects-for-electric-power-and-transportation/#356cbc252a96

The Art Institute of Chicago Puts 44,000+ Works of Art Online: View Them in High Resolution http://www.openculture.com/2018/10/art-institute-chicago-puts-44000-works-art-online-view-high-resolution.html

Coronavirus: The human cost of virus misinformation https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-52731624

A steeply-inclined trajectory for the Chicxulub impact https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15269-x

What’s that noise? The 17-year cicadas are back https://vtnews.vt.edu/content/vtnews_vt_edu/en/articles/2020/05/CALS-periodical_cicada_2020.html

Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-it-encourages-division-top-executives-nixed-solutions-11590507499

minha live sobre ética e comportamento coletivo https://www.instagram.com/p/CAqQZ8_nwvG/

Putting Peer Pressure to Work with Robert H Frank and Linda Yueh https://pca.st/qgjr5agf

Abolish Silicon Valley, with Wendy Liu and Carl Miller https://pca.st/2x0rug8z