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Samsung’s 512GB microSD is a huge storage upgrade that’s cheaper than ever https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18531448/samsung-512gb-microsd-storage-sale-amazon

Social media effect ‘tiny’ in teenagers, large study finds https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48147378

Vikings Casually Left Graffiti All Over Europe https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/05/06/viking-graffiti/

Facebook talked privacy, Google actually built it https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/07/show-dont-tell/

Global renewables growth has stalled—and that’s terrible news https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613498/global-renewable-growth-has-stalled-and-thats-terrible-news/

Explosions of universe’s first stars spewed powerful jets http://news.mit.edu/2019/universe-first-stars-jets-0508

CHINA’S SCIENTISTS ARE THE NEW KIDS ON THE ARCTIC BLOCK https://www.wired.com/story/chinas-scientists-are-the-new-kids-on-the-arctic-block/

How global warming has made the rich richer http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190502-how-global-warming-has-made-the-rich-richer

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Sunscreen Chemicals Soak All The Way Into Your Bloodstream https://www.wired.com/story/sunscreen-chemicals-soak-all-the-way-into-your-bloodstream/

Start-Ups Hoping to Fight Climate Change Struggle as Other Tech Firms Cash In https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/business/carbon-removal-technology-start-ups.html

Artificial Intelligence Can Now Copy Your Voice: What Does That Mean For Humans? https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2019/05/06/artificial-intelligence-can-now-copy-your-voice-what-does-that-mean-for-humans/#7b4d2fdd72a2

‘Tesla dream’ is dead as investors face ‘Tesla reality’ https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/06/tesla-dream-dead-investors-now-face-tesla-reality-market-watcher.html

Impossible research produces 400-year El Nino record, revealing startling changes https://phys.org/news/2019-05-impossible-year-el-nino-revealing.html

North Atlantic Ocean productivity has dropped 10 percent during Industrial era http://news.mit.edu/2019/north-atlantic-phytoplankton-productivity-drop-0406

ɐpu∩ uʍop sǝoפ ǝʞᴉɹʇS ɹǝq∩ https://gizmodo.com/apu-u-op-s-o-s-q-1834564424

Here’s What Happened When The World’s Space Agencies Simulated a Killer Asteroid Impact https://www.sciencealert.com/sorry-new-york-city-you-ve-been-squashed-in-a-hypothetical-asteroid-impact

How the data mining of failure could teach us the secrets of success https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613229/data-mining-reveals-the-hidden-secret-of-human-failure-and-how-to-turn-it-into-success/

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Leonardo’s ‘claw hand’ stopped him painting https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48151105

The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture

Stonehenge: DNA reveals origin of builders https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47938188

Nature loss: Report to show scale of ‘silent crisis’ https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48160456

Scaling solutions for the developing world http://news.mit.edu/2019/d-lab-design-for-scale-0505

A história dos “pisos de caquinhos em São Paulo” http://www.saopauloinfoco.com.br/piso-de-caquinhos-sp/

Computational models for the evolution of world cuisines https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10138v1

Why did an entire civilisation vanish? https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p077x0m7/why-did-an-entire-civilisation-vanish-

Facebook’s Unintended Consequence https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/opinion/facebook-free-speech.html

We Should Worry About How China Uses Apps Like TikTok https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/02/opinion/will-china-export-its-illiberal-innovation.html

Medieval Scholars Joust With White Nationalists. And One Another. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/05/arts/the-battle-for-medieval-studies-white-supremacy.html

Medievalists, Recoiling From White Supremacy, Try to Diversify the Field https://www.chronicle.com/article/Medievalists-Recoiling-From/240666/

‘Indústria alimentícia busca pesquisas que a favoreçam’ https://saude.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,industria-alimenticia-busca-pesquisas-que-a-favorecam,70002816136

The Global Dust Storm that Ended Opportunity Helped Teach us how Mars Lost its Water https://www.universetoday.com/142129/the-global-dust-storm-that-ended-opportunity-helped-teach-us-how-mars-lost-its-water/

China Is Using Facial Recognition To Track Ethnic Minorities, Even In Beijing https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/05/03/china-new-data-breach-exposes-facial-recognition-and-ethnicity-tracking-in-beijing/#428cf0d734a7

Origins Of Life https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/95-origins-of-life

Uber is going public — what better time to talk about climate change? https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/3/18527218/uber-ipo-sierra-club-ad-climate-change-pollution

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A Conversation with Mark Zuckerberg and Yuval Noah Harari https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/04/marks-challenge-yuval-noah-harari/

New type of dementia identified https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48092570

The power of music: Vicky McClure’s dementia choir https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-48124591

Gravitational waves hunt now in overdrive https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48137011

LIGO may have spotted a black hole-neutron star merger https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/ligo-may-have-spotted-a-black-hole-neutron-star-merger/

Deep Solar Minimum Fast-Approaching: Cosmic Rays Continue To Rise http://www.thegwpf.com/deep-solar-minimum-fast-approaching-cosmic-rays-continue-to-rise/

What Jane Jacobs Missed About Boston’s North End https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/what-jane-jacobs-missed-about-bostons-north-end

The Greta effect? Meet the schoolgirl climate warriors https://www.bbc.com/news/world-48114220

Why Does Apple Control Its Competitors? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/opinion/apple-app-store-iphone.html

Check In For Your Flight With Your Face? Passenger Questions JetBlue Facial-Recognition System https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/05/02/jetblue-facial-recognition-check-in