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Sorry, scooters aren’t so climate-friendly after all https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614050/electric-scooters-arent-so-climate-friendly-after-all-lime-bird/
Cloudflare Ditches 8chan. What Happens Now? https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-8chan-support-ddos/
8chan Is a Megaphone for Gunmen. ‘Shut the Site Down,’ Says Its Creator. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/technology/8chan-shooting-manifesto.html
AI researchers need to stop hiding the climate toll of their work https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614056/ai-research-has-an-environment-climate-toll/
Everything you thought you knew about gravity is wrong https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/everything-you-thought-you-knew-about-gravity-is-wrong/2019/08/01/627f3696-a723-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html?utm_term=.d659f9ec8c56
Einstein showed Newton was wrong about gravity. Now scientists are coming for Einstein. https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/einstein-showed-newton-was-wrong-about-gravity-now-scientists-are-ncna1038671
Russian Land of Permafrost and Mammoths Is Thawing https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/world/europe/russia-siberia-yakutia-permafrost-global-warming.html
7 Nests That Will Change How You Think of Birds https://youtu.be/mhWDCcBhxLQ
Deep Civilisation http://www.bbc.com/future/columns/deep-civilisation
Tomorrow’s Gods: What is the future of religion? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190801-tomorrows-gods-what-is-the-future-of-religion
I gave my DNA away. Can I get it back? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48110894
Trump Says He Has Been Treated Very Unfairly by People Who Wrote Constitution https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-says-he-has-been-treated-very-unfairly-by-people-who-wrote-constitution
Brasileiros recorrem ao ‘bico virtual’ e criam lojas online para reforçar renda https://economia.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,bico-20-e-alternativa-para-400-mil-brasileiros,70002953654
Things People Say to Their Dogs https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/opinion/sunday/talking-dog.html
To oil or not to oil. That’s the question. https://www.instagram.com/p/B0srA-3ATLW/
How Walking Fosters Creativity: Stanford Researchers Confirm What Philosophers and Writers Have Always Known http://www.openculture.com/2015/07/how-walking-fosters-creativity.html
Now We Know How The Zombie Ant Gets Its Bite https://www.wired.com/story/now-we-know-how-the-zombie-ant-gets-its-bite/
MLS team cancels fireworks display because of, uh, plague-infested fleas in prairie dog colonies https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/08/02/mls-team-cancels-fireworks-display-because-uh-plague-infested-fleas-prairie-dog-colonies/?utm_term=.8c0b1a6bef1f
This startup just raised $33 million to vaporize trash https://www.fastcompany.com/90382101/this-startup-just-raised-33-million-to-vaporize-trash