renedepaula

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich

We’re losing our climate battle. We have no one but ourselves to blame. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/were-losing-our-climate-battle-we-have-no-one-but-ourselves-to-blame/2019/12/02/efe4ce2c-1548-11ea-9110-3b34ce1d92b1_story.html

China Uses DNA to Map Faces, With Help From the West https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/business/china-dna-uighurs-xinjiang.html

SUVs Are Worse for the Climate Than You Ever Imagined https://www.wired.com/story/suvs-are-worse-for-the-climate-than-you-ever-imagined/

Why climate change is an irrelevance, economic growth is a myth and sustainability is forty years too late http://globalcomment.com/why-climate-change-is-an-irrelevance-economic-growth-is-a-myth-and-sustainability-is-forty-years-too-late/

The Biggest Herb on Earth is… a Banana?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNMfTkDZlFQ&ab_channel=SciShow

Climate change is forcing one person from their home every two seconds, Oxfam says https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/01/world/oxfam-climate-displacement-intl-scli/index.html

Sham news sites make big bucks from fake views https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50432080

China due to introduce face scans for mobile users https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50587098

An Epidemic of AI Misinformation https://thegradient.pub/an-epidemic-of-ai-misinformation/

A Reporter Took DNA Tests in the U.S. and China. The Results Left Her Worried https://fortune.com/2019/11/30/dna-tests-us-china-results/

Here Are Five of The Main Reasons People Continue to Deny Climate Change https://www.sciencealert.com/the-five-corrupt-pillars-of-climate-change-denial

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Were Neanderthals, Denisovans and Other Archaic Humans Victims of Sixth Mass Extinction? http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/neanderthals-denisovans-archaic-humans-victims-sixth-mass-extinction-07858.html

Scientists used loudspeakers to make dead coral reefs sound healthy. Fish flocked to them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/12/01/scientists-used-loudspeakers-make-dead-coral-reefs-sound-healthy-fish-flocked-them/

The fall and rise of a spyware empire https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614767/the-fall-and-rise-of-a-spyware-empire/

Facebook bows to Singapore’s ‘fake news’ law with post ‘correction’ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50613341

Undiscovered Presents: Planet Of The Killer Apes https://pca.st/ffcbccu9

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Carro de Elon Musk mostra que a cara do futuro é velha e paradoxal… – Veja mais em https://tab.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2019/11/28/carro-de-elon-musk-mostra-que-a-cara-do-futuro-e-velha-e-esquizofrenica.htm

1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple’s Future https://gizmodo.com/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secrets-to-apples-future-343641

Our dangerous fear of pain https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/11/27/our-dangerous-fear-pain/

Why Humans Should Be Thankful That Our Universe Has Dark Matter https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/11/28/why-humans-should-be-thankful-that-our-universe-has-dark-matter/#652033346f8b

Twitter has to figure out what to do with dead people https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614772/twitter-has-to-finally-figure-out-what-to-do-with-dead-peoples-accounts/

A Russian troll farm may not have been very good at its job https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614756/russia-disinformation-twitter-internet-research-agency-social-media-politics/

Jet-powered VTOL drone is like a quadcopter on steroids https://newatlas.com/drones/ab5-jetquad-jet-powered-drone/

New Study Claims We Probably Didn’t Wipe Out The Neanderthals After All https://www.sciencealert.com/how-a-perfect-storm-of-sex-and-population-size-may-have-sealed-the-neanderthals-fate

Inside the frantic response to mysterious ‘slow-moving blob’ flying over Washington https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/28/politics/white-house-lockdown-scramble/index.html

SQUID drone is launched by a cannon from a moving truck https://ww.dronedj.com/2019/11/26/squid-drone-cannon-moving-truck/

Jony Ive has left Apple https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/28/20986838/jony-ive-last-day-apple

Danos ambientais e custos financeiros https://economia.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,danos-ambientais-e-custos-financeiros,70003105123

Goo Hara and the trauma of South Korea’s spy cam victims https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50582338

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Apple changes Crimea map to meet Russian demands https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50573069

Website Calls for Investigation of Ring, Gets Blocked by Facebook https://gizmodo.com/website-calls-for-investigation-of-amazons-ring-gets-b-1840055487

Investigate Amazon https://www.investigateamazon.com/

This microbe no longer needs to eat food to grow, thanks to a bit of genetic engineering https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/microbe-no-longer-needs-eat-food-grow-thanks-bit-genetic-engineering

E. coli bacteria engineered to eat carbon dioxide https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03679-x

A Mathematician Who Decodes the Patterns Stamped Out by Life https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-mathematician-who-decodes-the-patterns-stamped-out-by-life-20171220/

Former Go champion beaten by DeepMind retires after declaring AI invincible https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/27/20985260/ai-go-alphago-lee-se-dol-retired-deepmind-defeat

A private equity firm is buying all of the .org domains. Here’s what that means https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/27/tech/org-domain-sale/index.html

Meet the Test-Tube Turkey That Costs $34,000 https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602898/meet-the-test-tube-turkey-that-costs-34000/

A falling rocket booster just completely flattened a building in China https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614769/a-falling-rocket-booster-just-completely-flattened-a-building-in-china/

No Music for ICE https://www.nomusicforice.com/

Artificial eyes: How robots will see in the future https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50151545

Parlametria – Inteligência de dados para ação cidadã https://parlametria.org/home