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Google results for probiotics are totally unreliable https://www.popsci.com/story/health/probiotics-misleading-information/

Even Ultra-Tough Water Bears May Be Vulnerable to Climate Change https://www.wired.com/story/water-bears-climate-change/

Pelosi calls Facebook a ‘shameful’ company that helped in ‘misleading the American people’ https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/16/tech/pelosi-shameful-facebook/index.html

Colgate finally launched its recyclable toothpaste tube. It’s made from the same type of plastic as milk jugs https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/15/business/colgate-recycle-toothpaste-tube-trnd/index.html

US lawmakers concerned by accuracy of facial recognition https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51130904

Evolutionary Dynamics Do Not Motivate a Single-Mutant Theory of Human Language https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-57235-8

Why did the dinosaurs go extinct? New study hopes to put debate to rest https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/16/world/dinosaur-extinction-volcanoes-asteroid-scn/index.html

Nestlé is spending billions to create a market for recycled plastics https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/16/business/nestle-recycled-plastics/index.html

Scientists Argue a ‘Corpse Signal’ Will Be Left in The Fossil Record of Our Time https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-argue-the-age-of-humans-will-be-unmistakable-in-the-fossil-record-of-our-time

Pig study sheds new light on sugar’s addictive impacts on the brain https://newatlas.com/medical/pig-study-sugar-brain/

Can Gut Bacteria Pass Diseases Like Alzheimer’s and Diabetes Among People? A Theory Says It Might Be Possible https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/can-gut-bacteria-pass-diseases-like-alzheimers-and-diabetes-among-people-a

YouTube advertisers blindsided by climate change denial videos https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/16/21066906/youtube-climate-change-denial-avaaz-samsung-uber-nintendo

7 rules to reduce your risk of Alzheimer’s and keep your brain healthy https://www.marketwatch.com/story/7-rules-to-reduce-your-risk-of-alzheimers-and-keep-your-brain-healthy-2020-01-16

DeepMind found an AI learning technique also works in human brains
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2230327-deepmind-found-an-ai-learning-technique-also-works-in-human-brains/#ixzz6BHm0mJ3C

7 Things You Can Do to Reduce Your Risk of Dementia https://www.nextavenue.org/reduce-risk-of-dementia/

Pelosi says Republicans are “afraid” to allow new evidence at impeachment trial https://www.cbsnews.com/news/watch-live-speaker-nancy-pelosi-holds-weekly-press-conference-watch-live-stream-today-2020-01-16/

Pelosi criticizes Facebook https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1217845777810317313

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Man Against Horse (This is a story about your butt) https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/man-against-horse

Want to Stop Australia’s Fires? Listen to Aboriginal People https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/opinion/australia-fires-aboriginal-people.html

Why string theory persists — despite the knotty physics https://www.space.com/string-theory-started-off-wrong.html

Exhibit 9,172 that global warming is an urgent threat https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/15/politics/climate-crisis-global-warming/index.html

The Evil List https://slate.com/technology/2020/01/evil-list-tech-companies-dangerous-amazon-facebook-google-palantir.html

Yup, 2019 was the second-hottest year on record https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615058/yup-2019-was-the-second-hottest-year-on-record/

2019 Was the Second-Hottest Year Ever, Closing Out the Warmest Decade https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/15/climate/hottest-year-2019.html

Why activists want to ban facial recognition on college campuses before it arrives https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/1/14/21063689/facial-recognition-college-campuses-universities-fight-for-the-future

Why Is Air Pollution So Harmful? DNA May Hold the Answer https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/science/air-pollution-fires-genes.html

Modeling what would happen to the UK if the Gulf Stream shuts down https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/modeling-what-would-happen-to-the-uk-if-the-gulf-stream-shuts-down/

Antarctic Experiment Reveals Strange ‘Ghost’ Particles That Physicists Can’t Explain https://www.sciencealert.com/standard-physics-has-been-ruled-out-for-neutrino-like-particles-slipping-through-our-planet

Australia’s fires have pumped out more emissions than 100 nations combined https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615035/australias-fires-have-pumped-out-more-emissions-than-100-nations-combined/

College students demand schools ban facial recognition https://mashable.com/article/college-students-facial-recognition-ban/

Where nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 300-times stronger than CO2, is being emitted https://qz.com/1745204/maps-of-nitrous-oxide-emissions-a-potent-greenhouse-gas/

Strange particles found in Antarctica cannot be explained by physics
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2229988-strange-particles-found-in-antarctica-cannot-be-explained-by-physics/#ixzz6BBztG0eM

What We Can Learn From Ötzi the Iceman’s Hunting Pack https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-we-can-learn-otzis-hunting-pack-180973898/

Ötzi, the mummy http://www.iceman.it/en/the-mummy/

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A vida é só um programa https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/inovacao,a-vida-e-so-um-programa,70003158781

These “xenobots” are living machines designed by an evolutionary algorithm https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615041/these-xenobots-are-living-machines-designed-by-an-evolutionary-algorithm/

Did the universe design itself? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11153-018-9692-z

Does Consciousness Pervade the Universe? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-consciousness-pervade-the-universe/

Grindr and OkCupid Spread Personal Details, Study Says https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/business/grindr-apps-dating-data-tracking.html

Grindr and Twitter face ‘out of control’ complaint https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51106357

Cientistas criam ouro a partir de plástico https://olhardigital.com.br/noticia/cientistas-criam-ouro-a-partir-de-plastico/95285

Specific gut bacteria may reduce severity of Parkinson’s disease https://newatlas.com/medical/gut-bacteria-microbiome-reduce-prevent-parkinsons-disease/

Excess of Immune Cells Found in Brains of People with Autism https://www.the-scientist.com/notebook/excess-of-immune-cells-found-in-brains-of-people-with-autism-66917

Scientists make world-first breakthrough that could help treat dementia after discovering blood flow sensors in the brain https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7884505/Auckland-scientists-make-world-breakthrough-help-treat-dementia.html

Throwaway society:
Rejecting a life consumed by plastic https://features.japantimes.co.jp/climate-crisis-plastic/

Major investment firm to prioritize sustainability, back off coal https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/major-investment-firm-to-prioritize-sustainability-back-off-coal/

The Oldest Known Material on Earth Is Officially Older Than The Solar System https://www.sciencealert.com/a-meteorite-discovered-in-australia-contains-oldest-known-material-on-earth

The Kazakh Muslims detained in China’s camps https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-51097159/the-kazakh-muslims-detained-in-china-s-camps

A Map of How the Word “Tea” Spread Across the World http://www.openculture.com/2019/11/a-map-of-how-the-word-tea-spread-across-the-world.html

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Can you really change your metabolism? https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/can-you-really-change-your-metabolism/2020/01/10/63ffde8c-3326-11ea-a053-dc6d944ba776_story.html

‘France is 50 years behind’: the ‘state scandal’ of French autism treatment https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/08/france-is-50-years-behind-the-state-scandal-of-french-autism-treatment

Autism may share inherited variants with other psychiatric conditions https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/autism-may-share-inherited-variants-with-other-psychiatric-conditions/

Oceans are warming at the same rate as if five Hiroshima bombs were dropped in every second https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/13/world/climate-change-oceans-heat-intl/index.html

Ocean temperatures hit record high as rate of heating accelerates https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/13/ocean-temperatures-hit-record-high-as-rate-of-heating-accelerates

Greenland’s Ice Melt Rate Has Now Accelerated To A Whopping 234 Billion Tons Of Ice Lost Per Year https://www.forbes.com/sites/lauratenenbaum/2020/01/12/greenlands-ice-melt-rate-has-now-accelerated-to-a-whopping-234-billion-tons-of-ice-lost-per-year/#f4ac8fe34397

Scientists Assemble Frog Stem Cells Into First ‘Living Machines’ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/scientists-assemble-frog-stem-cells-first-living-machines-180973947/

India’s About to Hand People Data Americans Can Only Dream Of https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-13/india-s-about-to-hand-people-data-americans-can-only-dream-of

The World’s Most Precious Metal Leaves Everything Else in the Dust https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-13/most-precious-metal-rhodium-leaves-everything-else-in-the-dust

Spurious Correlations http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Solar Storms Might Be Causing Gray Whales to Get Lost https://www.livescience.com/solar-storms-and-gray-whale-strandings.html

Languages affected differently by brain disease https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51069190

A ideologia do solucionismo tecnológico http://www.usabilidoido.com.br/a_ideologia_do_solucionismo_tecnologico.html

Número de vegetarianos quase dobra em 6 anos e atinge 29 milhões, aponta Ibope https://www.hypeness.com.br/2018/05/numero-de-vegetarianos-quase-dobra-em-6-anos-e-atinge-29-milhoes-aponta-ibope/

American history textbooks can differ across the country, in ways that are shaded by partisan politics. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/12/us/texas-vs-california-history-textbooks.html