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An Indian orbiter reached Mars five years ago, and it’s still ticking https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/an-indian-orbiter-reached-mars-five-years-ago-and-its-still-ticking/

Americans Have 365 Days To Get A New, Enhanced ID If They Want To Board An Airline Flight https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielreed/2019/10/02/youve-got-365-days-to-get-a-new-different-better-id-if-you-want-to-board-a-flight-and-go-somewhere/#4d0a2bfb727d

Radical warming in Siberia leaves millions on unstable ground https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/climate-environment/climate-change-siberia/

Amid the smoke of a burning Amazon rises the specter of the artist Roberto Burle Marx https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/amid-the-smoke-of-a-burning-amazon-rises-the-specter-of-the-artist-roberto-burle-marx/2019/10/02/76911e4a-e0a0-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html

Why is Earth so biologically diverse? Mountains hold the answer https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190912140454.htm

Paralysed man moves in mind-reading exoskeleton https://www.bbc.com/news/health-49907356

France plans to use facial recognition to let citizens access government services https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614469/france-plans-to-use-facial-recognition-to-let-citizens-access-government-services/

Americans Have 365 Days To Get A New, Enhanced ID If They Want To Board An Airline Flight https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielreed/2019/10/02/youve-got-365-days-to-get-a-new-different-better-id-if-you-want-to-board-a-flight-and-go-somewhere/#2c8f875d727d

Juno is Afraid to Death of Jupiter’s Shadow. So it Fired its Thruster for Over 10 Hours to Avoid It. https://www.universetoday.com/143630/juno-is-afraid-to-death-of-jupiters-shadow-so-it-fired-its-thruster-for-over-10-hours-to-avoid-it/

Microsoft Doesn’t Think Windows Is Important Anymore https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/3/20896908/microsoft-windows-satya-nadella-importance-apps-services-android

Tiny AI models could supercharge autocorrect and voice assistants on your phone https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614473/tiny-ai-could-supercharge-autocorrect-voice-assistants-on-your-phone/

Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613630/training-a-single-ai-model-can-emit-as-much-carbon-as-five-cars-in-their-lifetimes/

The Authoritarian’s Worst Fear? A Book https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/opinion/books-censorship.html

HIV protective gene paper retraction, Imaging ancient Herculaneum scrolls, Bill Bryson’s The Body https://pca.st/tect63s5

The First Music Streaming Service Was Invented in 1881: Discover the Théâtrophone http://www.openculture.com/2019/10/the-first-music-streaming-service-was-invented-in-1881-discover-the-theatrophone.html

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A Better Explanation for the Gender Gap in Math-Related Fields https://fee.org/articles/a-better-explanation-for-the-gender-gap-in-math-related-fields/

New research supports hypothesis that asteroid contributed to mass extinction https://phys.org/news/2019-10-hypothesis-asteroid-contributed-mass-extinction.html

Elon Musk’s plan for sending people to Mars is probably a suicide mission https://thenextweb.com/science/2019/10/02/elon-musks-plan-for-sending-people-to-mars-is-probably-a-suicide-mission/

NASA Just Revealed an Ocean on Enceladus Contains The Building Blocks of Life https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-just-revealed-enceladus-really-does-contain-the-building-blocks-of-life

A Doctor Who Prescribed 500,000 Doses of Opioids Is Sent to Prison for 40 Years https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/us/opioids-doctor-sentenced-joel-smithers.html

Are Antioxidants Actually Good for Anything? https://youtu.be/qhEB_wbsIt4

Gut bacteria is key factor in childhood obesity https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-10-gut-bacteria-key-factor-childhood.html

Did a large meteorite hit the earth 12,800 years ago? Here’s new evidence https://phys.org/news/2019-10-large-meteorite-earth-years-evidence.html

How Jurassic Plankton Stole Control of the Ocean’s Chemistry https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-jurassic-plankton-stole-control-of-the-oceans-chemistry-20191001/

Google contractors reportedly targeted homeless people for Pixel 4 facial recognition https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/2/20896181/google-contractor-reportedly-targeted-homeless-people-for-pixel-4-facial-recognition

WeWork is a symptom of a disease that may not have a cure https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wework-is-a-symptom-of-a-disease-that-may-not-have-a-cure-2019-10-02

Uber to launch Uber Works temp worker app Friday in Chicago https://www.cnet.com/news/uber-to-launch-uber-works-temp-worker-app-friday-in-chicago/

Beijing Launches New Rule: Residents Must Pass Facial Recognition Test to Surf Internet https://www.theepochtimes.com/beijing-launches-new-rule-residents-must-pass-facial-recognition-test-to-surf-internet_3099181.html

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Babies in the womb have lizard-like hand muscles https://www.bbc.com/news/health-49876827

Email Nonsense Inspired An Explanation Of Why Meteorologists Take A Lot of Math https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2019/10/01/email-nonsense-inspired-an-explanation-of-why-meteorologists-take-a-lot-of-math/#4d87fb382e4d

Amazon Pitches Shady Facial Recognition Laws https://www.forbes.com/sites/korihale/2019/10/01/amazon-pitches-shady-facial-recognition-laws/#28e82d906f7d

Scientists estimate Earth’s total carbon store https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49899039

Algae might be a secret weapon to combatting climate change https://qz.com/1718988/algae-might-be-a-secret-weapon-to-combatting-climate-change/

Humans Produce 100x More CO2 Than All Earth’s Volcanoes Combined https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-produce-100x-more-co2-than-all-volcanoes-combined

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In two hours of leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg rallies Facebook employees against critics, competitors, and the US government. https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20756701/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-leak-audio-ftc-antitrust-elizabeth-warren-tiktok-comments

Zuckerberg: Don’t worry, we expected policymakers to resist Libra https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614455/zuckerberg-dont-worry-we-expected-policymakers-to-resist-libra/

Three threats posed by deepfakes that technology won’t solve https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614446/deepfake-technology-detection-disinformation-harassment-revenge-porn-law/

Shoot Migrants’ Legs, Build Alligator Moat: Behind Trump’s Ideas for Border https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/politics/trump-border-wars.html

Jet fuel from thin air: Aviation’s hope or hype? https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49725741

Using Nanoparticles to Convert CO2 Into Valuable Resources https://scitechdaily.com/using-nanoparticles-to-convert-co2-into-valuable-resources/

New aluminum batteries for renewables storage https://www.pv-magazine.com/2019/09/30/new-aluminum-batteries-for-renewables-storage/

Eco-friendly aluminum batteries might power solar and wind farms https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/30/aluminum-batteries-now-more-practical/

Want to Insult Putin? It Will Cost You $462 https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-01/want-to-insult-putin-it-will-cost-you-462

Tsunamis linked to spread of deadly fungal disease https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49885913

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How WeWork spiraled from a $47 billion valuation to talk of bankruptcy in just 6 weeks https://www.businessinsider.com/weworks-nightmare-ipo

Japan’s last pagers beep for the final time https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49888869

How the world came to run on coffee http://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/made-on-earth/how-the-world-came-to-run-on-coffee/

Babies in the womb have lizard-like hand muscles https://www.bbc.com/news/health-49876827

Leia Vale a Pena: The Hidden Half – Michael Blastland https://leiavaleapena.tumblr.com/post/186769996423/leia-vale-a-pena-the-other-half-michael

Is “Planet 9” actually a primordial black hole? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614441/is-planet-9-actually-a-primordial-black-hole/

Putin could decide for the world on CRISPR babies https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614450/putin-could-decide-for-the-world-on-crispr-babies/

We can’t trust AI systems built on deep learning alone https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614443/we-cant-trust-ai-systems-built-on-deep-learning-alone/

Future of Genetically Modified Babies May Lie in Putin’s Hands https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-29/future-of-genetically-modified-babies-may-lie-in-putin-s-hands

Tit for Tat https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/104010-one-good-deed-deserves-another

De Uber a Nubank: as empresas que valem bilhões, mas nunca registraram lucro https://g1.globo.com/economia/noticia/2019/09/30/de-uber-a-nubank-as-empresas-que-valem-bilhoes-mas-nunca-registraram-lucro.ghtml

Carl Sagan e a curvatura da Terra https://www.instagram.com/tv/B2m_ROkg98N/

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

Why Vladimir Putin Suddenly Believes in Global Warming https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-29/climate-change-russia-s-oil-and-gas-heartlands-are-under-threat

Stephen Fry e a história de Gutenberg https://pca.st/AUWn