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The Uber I.P.O. Is a Moral Stain on Silicon Valley https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/opinion/uber-ipo.html

France’s fascinating ‘wine treatment’ http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190501-frances-fascinating-wine-treatment

The Dutch art investigator on a mission to recover stolen works of art. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p05bvyy5

Antiquities looted in Syria and Iraq are sold on Facebook https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-47628369

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

Facebook’s redesign is pretty, airy, and more reason to ditch Facebook https://www.fastcompany.com/90342343/facebooks-redesign-is-pretty-airy-and-more-reason-to-ditch-facebook

NASA Says Metals Fraud Caused $700 Million Satellite Failure https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-01/nasa-says-aluminum-fraud-caused-700-million-satellite-failures

Climate change: What do all the terms mean? https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48057733

A futuristic plan would turn air conditioners into climate change–fighting machines https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613460/a-futuristic-plan-would-turn-air-conditioners-into-climate-change-fighting-machines/

ARABIC Influence on Spanish & Portuguese! https://youtu.be/-3QML3tfBNQ

What Would Happen if Honeybees Went Extinct? https://youtu.be/rhJ1-CRL1Ow

Rapid permafrost thaw unrecognized threat to landscape, global warming researcher warns https://phys.org/news/2019-04-rapid-permafrost-unrecognized-threat-landscape.html

You’re Not Getting Enough Sleep—and It’s Killing You https://www.wired.com/story/youre-not-getting-enough-sleep-and-its-killing-you/

Surprisingly wet asteroid dust could spark a rethink of Earth’s water https://www.newscientist.com/article/2201259-surprisingly-wet-asteroid-dust-could-spark-a-rethink-of-earths-water/

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Scientists seek genetic answer to predatory nature of invasive lionfish https://newatlas.com/genetics-lionfish-invasions/59450/

Apple has booted apps from its store that let parents monitor screen time https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613444/apple-has-booted-apps-that-let-parents-monitor-screen-time-from-the-app-store/

Renewable energy will surpass coal in April & May https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/04/29/renewable-energy-will-surpass-coal-in-april-may/

America’s renewable energy set to surpass coal for the first month ever https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/29/business/renewable-energy-coal-solar/index.html

Get ready for tens of millions of climate refugees https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613342/get-ready-for-tens-of-millions-of-climate-refugees/

The one number you need to know about climate change https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613328/the-one-number-you-need-to-know-about-climate-change/

The accident that led to the discovery of climate-change-proof coffee https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613333/the-accident-that-led-to-the-discovery-of-climate-change-proof-coffee/

India’s surging economy could doom climate efforts—unless richer nations step up https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613337/indias-surging-economy-could-doom-climate-effortsunless-richer-nations-step-up/

Dead Facebook users could outnumber living ones within 50 years https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613441/dead-facebook-users-could-outnumber-living-ones-within-50-years/

What Songbirds Can Tell Us About Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/opinion/birds-spring-trump.html

A ‘Blockchain Bandit’ Is Guessing Private Keys And Scoring Millions https://www.wired.com/story/blockchain-bandit-ethereum-weak-private-keys/

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Walking the City with Jane: An Illustrated Celebration of Jane Jacobs and Her Legacy of Livable Cities https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/06/13/walking-the-city-with-jane-jacobs/

This AI-generated musak shows us the limit of artificial creativity https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613430/this-ai-generated-musak-shows-us-the-limit-of-artificial-creativity/

Amazon’s system for tracking its warehouse workers can automatically fire them https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613434/amazons-system-for-tracking-its-warehouse-workers-can-automatically-fire-them/

Epidemia de ignorância: movimento contra vacinas gera preocupação mundial https://revistagalileu.globo.com/Ciencia/Saude/noticia/2019/04/epidemia-de-ignorancia-movimento-contra-vacinas-gera-preocupacao-mundial.html

Putting Down Your Phone May Help You Live Longer https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/well/mind/putting-down-your-phone-may-help-you-live-longer.html

The Rich Kid Revolutionaries https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/opinion/sunday/rich-social-inequality.html

Jack Dorsey’s TED Interview and the End of an Era https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/jack-dorseys-ted-interview-and-the-end-of-an-era

New EPA document tells communities to brace for climate change impacts https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/new-epa-document-tells-communities-to-brace-for-climate-change-impacts/2019/04/27/09cf8df6-6836-11e9-82ba-fcfeff232e8f_story.html?utm_term=.fb44e21a4e03

Não há evidências de que inverno brasileiro será o mais frio dos últimos 100 anos https://politica.estadao.com.br/blogs/estadao-verifica/nao-ha-evidencias-de-que-inverno-brasileiro-sera-o-mais-frio-dos-ultimos-100-anos/

Animated Maps Reveal the True Size of Countries (and Show How Traditional Maps Distort Our World) http://www.openculture.com/2019/04/animated-maps-animated-maps-reveal-the-true-size-of-countries-the-true-size-of-countries.html

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Texto sobre ‘cura do câncer’ distorce fatos e aponta falsa conspiração https://politica.estadao.com.br/blogs/estadao-verifica/texto-sobre-cura-do-cancer-distorce-fatos-e-aponta-falsa-conspiracao/

Gestão Salles exclui da internet dados de áreas prioritárias para conservação http://www.diretodaciencia.com/2019/04/25/gestao-salles-exclui-da-internet-dados-de-areas-prioritarias-para-conservacao/

Brasil liderou desmatamento de florestas primárias no mundo em 2018, mostra relatório https://g1.globo.com/natureza/noticia/2019/04/25/brasil-liderou-desmatamento-de-florestas-primarias-no-mundo-em-2018-mostra-relatorio.ghtml

Drones are now delivering life-saving medicines to remote parts of Ghana https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613423/drones-are-now-delivering-life-saving-medicines-to-remote-parts-of-ghana/

A robotic catheter has autonomously wound its way inside a live, beating pig’s heart https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613419/a-robotic-catheter-has-autonomously-wound-its-way-inside-a-live-beating-pigs-heart/

Are We There Yet? A Reality Check On Self-Driving Cars https://www.wired.com/story/future-of-transportation-self-driving-cars-reality-check/

Is China losing the battle against an incurable pig virus? https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47956960

Sea animals are more vulnerable to warming than are land ones https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01193-8

Universo está se expandindo mais rápido do que o esperado, diz estudo https://g1.globo.com/ciencia-e-saude/noticia/2019/04/25/universo-esta-se-expandindo-mais-rapido-do-que-o-esperado-diz-estudo.ghtml

The Universe Is Expanding So Fast We Might Need New Physics to Explain It https://www.space.com/universe-expanding-fast-new-physics.html

Gynecologist can’t believe she has to tell people not to put garlic in their vaginas https://thetakeout.com/doctor-tells-women-not-to-put-garlic-in-their-vaginas-1834301079