How interchangeable parts revolutionised the way things are made https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49499444

Nobel chemistry prize: Lithium-ion battery scientists honoured https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49962133

A Hard Lesson in Silicon Valley: Profits Matter https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/technology/silicon-valley-startup-profit.html

Three STDs reach all-time highs in the US, new CDC report says https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/08/health/std-cases-rising-us-study/index.html

China’s surveillance tech is spreading globally, raising concerns about Beijing’s influence https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/08/china-is-exporting-surveillance-tech-like-facial-recognition-globally.html

California’s shutting off power to prevent fires. Here are some better options. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614498/californias-shutting-off-power-to-prevent-fires-here-are-some-better-options/

Amazon’s new Kindle for Kids is probably not as good for kids as real books https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614502/amazons-new-kindle-for-kids-is-probably-not-as-good-for-kids-as-real-books/

The Universe As We Know It Shouldn’t Exist | The Matter-Antimatter Problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS4MaZKdfE0

Nietzsche’s Eternal Return https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/14/nietzsches-eternal-return

The Arena for Accountable Predictions – Long Bets http://longbets.org/

String Theory Does Not Win a Nobel, and I Win a Bet https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/string-theory-does-not-win-a-nobel-and-i-win-a-bet/

Sea ‘Boiling’ With Methane Discovered In Siberia: ‘No One Has Ever Recorded Anything Like This Before’ https://www.newsweek.com/methane-boiling-sea-discovered-siberia-1463766

Everyone’s AirPods will die. We’ve got the trick to replacing them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/08/everyones-airpods-will-die-weve-got-trick-replacing-them/

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WeWork Is Lesson in How Not to Run a Startup https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/wework-is-lesson-in-how-not-to-run-a-startup-1.7949970

After WeWork IPO Debacle, SoftBank Founder Is ‘Embarrassed’ by His Investing Record https://fortune.com/2019/10/07/masayoshi-son-softbank-wework-uber/

But is it science? https://aeon.co/essays/post-empirical-science-is-an-oxymoron-and-it-is-dangerous

The peculiar bathroom habits of Westerners http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20191004-the-peculiar-bathroom-habits-of-westerners

Airbnb Wants to Send You to Antarctica. Don’t Fall for It https://www.wired.com/story/airbnb-wants-to-send-you-to-antarctica-dont-fall-for-it/

The ‘3.5% rule’: How a small minority can change the world http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

Most Deepfakes Are Porn, and They’re Multiplying Fast https://www.wired.com/story/most-deepfakes-porn-multiplying-fast/

Anniversary of the Periodic Table https://pca.st/j67uhm5t

Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded for Research on How Cells Manage Oxygen https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/health/nobel-prize-medicine.html

Solar power can boost your home’s value — especially in these 10 states https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/05/solar-power-can-boost-a-homes-value-in-these-10-states-the-most.html

Solar and wind make coal unprofitable in Japan https://www.pv-magazine.com/2019/10/07/solar-and-wind-make-coal-unprofitable-in-japan/

Mark Zuckerberg admits he has too much money https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/10/mark-zuckerberg-admits-he-has-too-much-money.html

Must science be testable? https://aeon.co/essays/the-string-theory-wars-show-us-how-science-needs-philosophy

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“i Don’t Give A Shit About The Industry I’m Disrupting”: How Silicon Valley Hacked Our Minds And Lost Its Conscience https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/new-establishment-how-silicon-valley-lost-its-conscience

China’s Breeding Giant Pigs That Are as Heavy as Polar Bears https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-06/china-is-breeding-giant-pigs-the-size-of-polar-bears

Pigs were spotted using tools for the first time, a new study says https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/06/us/pigs-use-tools-study-scn-trnd/index.html

Why You Can’t Really Consent to Facebook’s Facial Recognition https://onezero.medium.com/why-you-cant-really-consent-to-facebook-s-facial-recognition-6bb94ea1dc8f

This is how you kick facial recognition out of your town https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614477/facial-recognition-law-enforcement-surveillance-private-industry-regulation-ban-backlash/

Details of 92 Million Brazilians Auctioned on Underground Forums https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/details-of-92-million-brazilians-auctioned-on-underground-forums/

What is the fascination with the Illuminati conspiracy? https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/what-is-the-fascination-with-the-illuminati-conspi/p07q0jd2?playlist=conspiracies-and-controversies

Why is this country one of the happiest places on Earth? https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p07pr9sw/why-is-this-country-one-of-the-happiest-places-on-earth-

Notre-Dame: How an underwater forest in Ghana could help rebuild a Paris icon https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48964785

What life might be like in alien oceans http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190926-what-life-might-be-like-in-the-alien-oceans

Cars Are Death Machines.
Self-Driving Tech Won’t Change That. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/04/opinion/self-driving-cars-safety.html

An Open Source License That Requires Users to Do No Harm https://www.wired.com/story/open-source-license-requires-users-do-no-harm/

New York City Wants to Put a Climate Change ‘Laboratory’ on Governors Island https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/06/climate/governors-island-climate-change-new-york.html

AI Is Now Analyzing Candidates’ Facial Expressions During Video Job Interviews https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/ai-is-now-analyzing-candidates-facial-expressions-during-video-job-interviews.html

Ethical O.S. http://ethicalos.org

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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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