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@davidattenborough Biodiversity: the loss of nature https://www.instagram.com/tv/CFrRYBxH_pF/?igshid=1r8heykds31ww

Blacklight, A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector https://themarkup.org/blacklight

Do Islã Ao PCC https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/do-isla-ao-pcc/

Understanding Our Place in the Universe: Math Professor Verifies Centuries-Old Conjecture About Formation of the Solar System https://scitechdaily.com/understanding-our-place-in-the-universe-math-professor-verifies-centuries-old-conjecture-about-formation-of-the-solar-system/

Multiple Unapproved Drugs Found in “Brain Boosting” Supplements https://neurosciencenews.com/nootropics-unapproved-drugs-17090/

The video origin of the myth that global warming is good for agriculture https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/09/video-origin-of-the-myth-that-global-warming-good-for-agriculture/

Can Tiny Glass Beads Keep Arctic Ice From Melting? Maaaybe https://www.wired.com/story/geoengineering-tiny-glass-beads-prevent-arctic-ice-from-melting/

The daring plan to save the Arctic ice with glass https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200923-could-geoengineering-save-the-arctic-sea-ice

We May Finally Know What Life on Earth Breathed Before There Was Oxygen https://www.sciencealert.com/life-on-earth-may-have-breathed-arsenic-before-oxygen-was-around

The Truth About Dog Years (Your Pupper Is Older Than You Think!) https://youtu.be/76MvQSkpycs

7 Animals That Can’t Be Trusted https://youtu.be/jnMfNYNQRUU

Life is Made of Unfair Coin Flips https://alexdanco.com/2020/04/09/life-is-made-of-unfair-coin-flips/

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Brainiacs, not birdbrains: Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primarily human attribute https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/24/crows-possess-higher-intelligence-long-thought-primarily-human/

How Neanderthals lost their Y chromosome https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/how-neanderthals-lost-their-y-chromosome

The evolutionary history of Neanderthal and Denisovan Y chromosomes https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6511/1653

How close is AI to decoding our emotions? https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/24/1008876/how-close-is-ai-to-decoding-our-emotions/

A New Mass Extinction has been Discovered, Wiping Out Life 233 Million Years Ago, and Leading to the Rise of the Dinosaurs https://www.universetoday.com/147929/a-new-mass-extinction-has-been-discovered-wiping-out-life-233-million-years-ago-and-leading-to-the-rise-of-the-dinosaurs/

The best trees to reduce air pollution https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200504-which-trees-reduce-air-pollution-best

Winged Dinosaurs Didn’t Use Their Wings Only to Fly 😲 When Whales Walked https://youtu.be/mmaMTbfwLq4

Pilot whales Tasmania: Almost 400 die in Australia’s worst stranding https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54260278

Cave Art https://pca.st/y2uypf0l

Stephen Fry https://pca.st/uc0nyqzg

Desmatamento na Amazônia está próximo do ponto de ‘não retorno’, diz especialista https://valor.globo.com/politica/noticia/2020/09/21/desmatamento-na-amaznia-est-prximo-do-ponto-de-no-retorno-diz-especialista.ghtml

The Massive ‘Blob’ Anomaly Has Our Fingerprints All Over It, Study Finds https://www.sciencealert.com/the-foreboding-pacific-blob-anomaly-has-been-linked-to-human-induced-climate-change

Trump’s Stalinist Approach to Science https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/opinion/trump-science-coronavirus.html

Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54269144

Scientists find you’re unwittingly putting your cat’s health at risk https://www.slashgear.com/scientists-find-youre-unwittingly-putting-your-cats-health-at-risk-23639567/

Trofim Lysenko, Soviet Ideology, and Pseudo-Science https://hplusmagazine.com/2013/05/22/trofim-lysenko-soviet-ideology-and-pseudo-science/

Lysenkoism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

When Biology Meets Ideology https://www.technologyreview.com/2016/02/23/161993/when-biology-meets-ideology/

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Without oxygen, Earth’s early microbes relied on arsenic to sustain life

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-oxygen-earth-early-microbes-arsenic.html

Could there really be life in the clouds of Venus?

https://pca.st/episode/323bf558-76f1-4037-8203-43c1e5f5e6e8

Bunkers

https://pca.st/episode/1998c39f-702d-4742-8a83-2dd158633b92

Fructose Made in the Brain Could Be a Mechanism Driving Alzheimer’s

Fructose Made in the Brain Could Be a Mechanism Driving Alzheimer’s

California Plans to Ban Sales of Gas-Powered Cars by 2035

https://www.wired.com/story/california-plans-ban-sales-gas-powered-cars-2035/

How American Racism Influenced Hitler

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/how-american-racism-influenced-hitler

California looks to ban gas guzzlers – but legal hurdles abound

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/23/1008840/california-looks-to-ban-gas-guzzlers-but-legal-hurdles-abound/

If China plans to go carbon neutral by 2060, why is it building so many coal plants?

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/23/1008786/china-carbon-neutral-coal-plants-un/

Metformin Treatment Linked to Slowed Cognitive Decline

Metformin Treatment Linked to Slowed Cognitive Decline

How could wearing a mask help build immunity to COVID-19? It’s all about the viral dose

https://theconversation.com/how-could-wearing-a-mask-help-build-immunity-to-covid-19-its-all-about-the-viral-dose-146201