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These Are the World’s Healthiest Nations https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-24/spain-tops-italy-as-world-s-healthiest-nation-while-u-s-slips

Projeto quer proibir deputado de fazer ‘live’ https://politica.estadao.com.br/blogs/coluna-do-estadao/projeto-quer-proibir-deputado-de-fazer-live/

Baleia Jubarte é encontrada em área de mata na praia do Marajó, no Pará https://g1.globo.com/pa/para/noticia/2019/02/22/baleia-jubarte-e-encontrada-em-area-de-mata-na-praia-do-marajo-no-para.ghtml

Four New DNA Letters Double Life’s Alphabet https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/four-new-dna-letters-double-lifes-alphabet/

Bill Gates Says The Textbook Is Dying. Is He Right? https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2019/02/23/bill-gates-says-the-textbook-is-dying-is-he-right/#2d7946855ed0

Finally, We Know What Killed Sea Life in The Deadliest Mass Extinction in History https://www.sciencealert.com/finally-we-know-what-killed-sea-life-in-the-deadliest-mass-extinction-in-history

Ônibus com ar-condicionado polui 15% mais do que veículo convencional em SP https://sao-paulo.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,onibus-com-ar-condicionado-polui-15-mais-do-que-veiculo-convencional-em-sp,70002734756

Canadian transit agency teases amazing new transportation technology: the bus https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/23/18236820/canadian-transit-agency-toronto-go-bus-autonomous-vehicles-video-watch

Voynich manuscript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

Has the Voynich Manuscript Finally Been Decoded?: Researchers Claim That the Mysterious Text Was Written in Phonetic Old Turkish http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/has-the-voynich-manuscript-finally-been-decoded.html

A software glitch is throwing riders off of Lime scooters https://qz.com/1558033/a-software-malfunction-is-injuring-lime-riders-around-the-world/

New Genetic Alphabet –“Could Life Have Taken a Different Path Elsewhere in the Cosmos?” https://dailygalaxy.com/2019/02/new-genetic-alphabet-could-life-have-taken-a-different-path-elsewhere-in-the-universe/

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Why humans have evolved to drink milk http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190218-when-did-humans-start-drinking-cows-milk

Report: Trump Wants Guy Who Compared Climate Science to the Holocaust to Head Climate Panel https://earther.gizmodo.com/report-trump-wants-guy-who-compared-climate-science-to-1832775121

China’s CRISPR twins might have had their brains inadvertently enhanced https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612997/the-crispr-twins-had-their-brains-altered/

Income inequality is rising so fast our data can’t keep up https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/21/income-inequality-is-rising-so-fast-our-data-cant-keep-up/?utm_term=.9a791afa2eca

Don’t Abolish Billionaires https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/opinion/billionaires-innovation.html

India Threatens a New Weapon Against Pakistan: Water https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/world/asia/india-pakistan-water-kashmir.html

China Uses DNA to Track Its People, With the Help of American Expertise https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/business/china-xinjiang-uighur-dna-thermo-fisher.html

Zebra stripes confuse biting flies, causing them to abort their landings https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/zebra-stripes-confuse-biting-flies-causing-them-abort-their-landings

The Triumphant Rediscovery Of The Biggest Bee On Earth https://www.wired.com/story/wallaces-giant-bee/

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After New York City’s War With Amazon, Uber Could Be Next https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/nyregion/uber-nyc-deblasio.html

Travel Back to 1990 With the Original World Wide Web Browser https://gizmodo.com/travel-back-to-1990-with-the-original-world-wide-web-br-1832730788

AI fake face website launched https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47296481

Child abuse images being traded via secure apps https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47279256

A UK parliamentary committee has accused Facebook of being “digital gangsters” https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612981/a-uk-parliamentary-committee-has-accused-facebook-of-being-digital-gangsters/

Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612974/once-hailed-as-unhackable-blockchains-are-now-getting-hacked/

In China, some parents seek an edge with genetic testing for tots https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612976/china-parents-genetic-testing-for-kids-talent/

Carl Sagan Predicts the Decline of America: Unable to Know “What’s True,” We Will Slide, “Without Noticing, Back into Superstition & Darkness” (1995) http://www.openculture.com/2017/01/carl-sagan-predicts-the-decline-of-america.html

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Gene therapy first to ‘halt’ most common cause of blindness https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47226987

CRISPR gene editing makes stem cells ‘invisible’ to immune system https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-02-crispr-gene-stem-cells-invisible.html

Lobster’s underbelly is as tough as industrial rubber http://news.mit.edu/2019/lobster-underbelly-tough-industrial-rubber-0219

Machine learning is contributing to a “reproducibility crisis” within science https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612982/machine-learning-is-contributing-to-a-reproducibility-crisis-within-science/

What if you could diagnose endometriosis with a tampon? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612905/what-if-you-could-diagnose-endometriosis-with-a-tampon/

Could hackers ‘brainjack’ your memories in future? https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47277340

Instagram: Will quitting make me happy? https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-47205467/instagram-will-quitting-make-me-happy

Sepsis: New rapid test ‘could save thousands of lives’ https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47279072

Your phone and shoes are home to completely unknown life forms https://www.newscientist.com/article/2194167-your-phone-and-shoes-are-home-to-completely-unknown-life-forms/

Collectors beware: World War II watches carry a hidden cancer risk https://www.alphr.com/science/1009608/world-war-2-watches-radon-cancer