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Why you keep thinking it’ll never happen to you https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p089zg6b/why-you-keep-thinking-it-ll-never-happen-to-you

Earth Day 50th Anniversary | Earth Day www.earthday.org/earth-day-50th-anniversary/

Medieval medical books could hold the recipe for new antibiotics https://theconversation.com/medieval-medical-books-could-hold-the-recipe-for-new-antibiotics-74490

Researchers Follow a 15th-Century Recipe to Recreate Medieval Blue Ink https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-followed-15th-century-recipe-recreate-medieval-blue-ink-180974709/

Why Aren’t We Excited About Earth Day Anymore? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/opinion/earth-day-2020.html

Air pollution falls by unprecedented levels in major global cities during coronavirus lockdowns https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/22/world/air-pollution-reduction-cities-coronavirus-intl-hnk/index.html

Why Plastic Waste Is a C-Suite Issue https://hbr.org/2020/04/why-plastic-waste-is-a-c-suite-issue

The silliest string-theory alternative yet draws inspiration from video games https://thenextweb.com/insider/2020/04/21/the-silliest-string-theory-alternative-yet-draws-inspiration-from-video-games/

Climate change: World mustn’t forget ‘deeper emergency’ https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52370221

‘Nobody told us about the coronavirus pandemic’ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52332899

Climate change: 2019 was Europe’s warmest year on record https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52380157

State by State: Comparing Coronavirus Death Rates Across U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/22/us/coronavirus-death-rates.html

Coronavirus: World risks ‘biblical’ famines due to pandemic – UN https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52373888

Don’t Celebrate Earth Day. Fight for It. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/opinion/trump-epa-earth-day.html

Dirty Streaming: The Internet’s Big Secret | BBC Stories https://youtu.be/4sjS030x4Ig

Jeffrey Sachs on the Catastrophic American Response to the Coronavirus https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/jeffrey-sachs-on-the-catastrophic-american-response-to-the-coronavirus

Did Obama Urge US Pandemic Preparedness in 2014? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-pandemic-preparedness-2014/

2020 World Press Freedom Index: “Entering a decisive decade for journalism, exacerbated by coronavirus” https://rsf.org/en/2020-world-press-freedom-index-entering-decisive-decade-journalism-exacerbated-coronavirus

Coronavirus Threatens Press Freedom Around the World, Report Says https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/world/americas/coronavirus-press-freedom-journalism.html

‘Plague on a Biblical Scale’: Hasidic Families Hit Hard by Virus https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/nyregion/coronavirus-jews-hasidic-ny.html

The Death of the Department Store: ‘Very Few Are Likely to Survive’ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/business/coronavirus-department-stores-neiman-marcus.html

This year is on track to be Earth’s warmest on record, beating 2016, NOAA says https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/04/21/earth-warmest-year-likely-2020/

Coronavirus: World risks ‘biblical’ famines due to pandemic – UN https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52373888

Leia, Vale a Pena: Knowledge resistance, por Mikael Klintman https://leiavaleapena.tumblr.com/post/190684364993/leia-vale-a-pena-knowledge-resistance-por

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O preço da pusilanimidade https://opiniao.estadao.com.br/noticias/notas-e-informacoes,o-preco-da-pusilanimidade,70003277651

No, The Universe Cannot Be Expanding Differently In Different Directions https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/04/21/no-the-universe-cannot-be-expanding-differently-in-different-directions/#1f71f9fd1774

Releasing herds of animals into the Arctic could help fight climate change, study finds https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-permafrost-arctic-animal-herds-pleistocene-park-siberia/

Smog-Free Skies Allow Germany to Break Record for Solar Power https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-20/smog-free-skies-allow-germany-to-break-record-for-solar-power

Fusion Energy Gets Ready to Shine—Finally https://www.wired.com/story/fusion-energy-iter-reactor-ready-to-shine/

Scientists uncover principles of universal self-assembly https://phys.org/news/2020-04-scientists-uncover-principles-universal-self-assembly.html

A new kind of physics? Stephen Wolfram has a radical plan to build the universe from dots and lines https://theconversation.com/a-new-kind-of-physics-stephen-wolfram-has-a-radical-plan-to-build-the-universe-from-dots-and-lines-136830

Coronavirus: WHO worker killed in Myanmar collecting samples https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52366811

This photo confirms that your tongue is basically a microbe party https://www.popsci.com/story/health/tongue-microbiome-close-up/

This Solar Panel Just Set a World Record for Efficiency https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a32202373/solar-panel-record-efficiency/

The tricky math of lifting coronavirus lockdowns https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/20/1000125/the-tricky-math-of-moving-around-again/

The US needs to do 20 million tests a day to reopen safely, according to a new plan https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/20/1000228/the-us-will-need-to-do-20-million-tests-a-day-to-reopen-safely/

The Mathematics of Predicting the Course of the Coronavirus https://www.wired.com/story/the-mathematics-of-predicting-the-course-of-the-coronavirus/

Geology: Ancient clams help measure moon’s ever-changing orbit https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200419/geology-ancient-clams-help-measure-moons-ever-changing-orbit

Warmest Oceans on Record Adds to Hurricanes, Wildfires Risks https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-18/warmest-oceans-on-record-could-set-off-a-year-of-extreme-weather

Machine learning could check if you’re social distancing properly at work https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/17/1000092/ai-machine-learning-watches-social-distancing-at-work/

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Coronavirus: ‘Possible to be infected with Covid-19 more than once’ https://www.bbc.com/news/av/health-52344676/coronavirus-possible-to-be-infected-with-covid-19-more-than-once

Warmest Oceans on Record Could Set Off a Year of Extreme Weather https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-18/warmest-oceans-on-record-could-set-off-a-year-of-extreme-weather

The untold origin story of the N95 mask https://www.fastcompany.com/90479846/the-untold-origin-story-of-the-n95-mask

‘Common Sense’ Is No Substitute for Science in a Pandemic https://www.wired.com/story/common-sense-is-no-substitute-for-science/

Inventor of N95 masks comes out of retirement to upgrade them https://www.jpost.com/international/inventor-of-n95-masks-comes-out-of-retirement-to-upgrade-them-625083

How a 150-year-old experiment with a beam of light showed germs exist – and that a face mask can help filter them out https://theconversation.com/how-a-150-year-old-experiment-with-a-beam-of-light-showed-germs-exist-and-that-a-face-mask-can-help-filter-them-out-136391

Parts of North America Are Currently Heading For a Megadrought, Study Finds https://www.sciencealert.com/a-warming-planet-means-parts-of-north-america-are-heading-for-a-megadrought

Obesidade é o principal fator de risco nas vítimas com menos de 60 anos https://saude.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,obesidade-e-o-principal-fator-de-risco-nas-vitimas-com-menos-de-60-anos,70003276317

10 African Countries Have No Ventilators. That’s Only Part of the Problem. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/world/africa/africa-coronavirus-ventilators.html

The High Schooler Who Became a COVID-19 Watchdog https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/30/the-high-schooler-who-became-a-covid-19-watchdog

An Oral History of the Pandemic Warnings Trump Ignored https://www.wired.com/story/an-oral-history-of-the-pandemic-warnings-trump-ignored/

Is fungus the answer to climate change? Student who grew a mushroom canoe says yes. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fungus-answer-climate-change-student-who-grew-mushroom-canoe-says-n1185401

The Fishy Fix to a Methane-Spewing Crop https://www.wired.com/story/tiny-hungry-fish-fix-rice-global-warming-problem/

A One-Time Poultry Farmer Invents the Future of Refrigeration https://www.wired.com/story/refrigeration-global-warming-food-preservation/

Why Is Trump Gutting Regulations That Save Lives? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/opinion/coronavirus-trump-regulations.html

Why does cinema ignore climate change? http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20200416-why-does-cinema-ignore-climate-change

Climate change: US megadrought ‘already under way’ https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52312260

The Cataclysm Sentence https://pca.st/jhfxgko1

leia, vale a pena: Who Owns The Future de Jaron Lanier https://leiavaleapena.tumblr.com/post/153182787473/who-owns-the-future

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How the allies used math to save bomber crews during WWII https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/how-the-allies-saved-bombers

Abraham Wald https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Wald

A Brief History of “Flak-Bait” https://youtu.be/gHyJrucsn7M

Periferia concentra mortes suspeitas por coronavírus na cidade de São Paulo https://saude.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,periferia-concentra-mortes-suspeitas-por-coronavirus-na-cidade-de-sao-paulo,70003273990

Life’s other mystery: Why biology’s building blocks are so lop-sided
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Why the Big Bang Produced Something Rather Than Nothing https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/science/physics-neutrino-antimatter-ichikawa-t2k.html

How a German Housewife Fed Up With Grounds in Her Coffee Revolutionized the Famous Drink https://fee.org/articles/how-a-german-housewife-fed-up-with-grounds-in-her-coffee-revolutionized-the-famous-drink/

This World War II Bomber Took More Enemy Fire Than Most Others and Always Came Home https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/world-war-ii-bomber-took-more-enemy-fire-most-others-and-always-came-home-180974690/

Protests are popping up across the US over stay-at-home restrictions https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/16/us/protests-coronavirus-stay-home-orders/index.html

India coronavirus: Officials suspended over large crowds at Hindu festival https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52322645

How Democracy Won the World’s First Coronavirus Election https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/opinion/south-korea-election-coronavirus.html

Plano de saúde instala cabine de teste do coronavírus em Israel; veja como funciona https://internacional.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,plano-de-saude-instala-cabine-de-teste-do-coronavirus-em-israel-veja-como-funciona,70003273765

Does the Pandemic Have a Purpose? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/opinion/covid-philosophy.html

Polícia americana encontra 17 corpos em asilo de New Jersey https://internacional.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,policia-americana-encontra-17-corpos-em-centro-de-idosos-de-new-jersey,70003273591

Coronavirus at Smithfield pork plant: The untold story of America’s biggest outbreak https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52311877

The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/03/the-mystery-of-people-who-speak-dozens-of-languages

Covid-19 is rapidly becoming America’s leading cause of death https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/04/16/coronavirus-leading-cause-death/?arc404=true

Can tech trace the spread of coronavirus? Maybe. Maybe not. https://pca.st/ylaigfen

Jinn: The Ancient Arabian Shapeshifters | Monstrum https://youtu.be/YvdedlbyrQM