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China identifies new strain of coronavirus as source of pneumonia outbreak https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-identifies-new-strain-of-coronavirus-as-source-of-pneumonia-outbreak/2020/01/09/f2625650-329f-11ea-971b-43bec3ff9860_story.html

None of these 195 countries — the U.S. included — is fully prepared for a pandemic, report says https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/10/24/none-these-countries-us-included-is-fully-prepared-pandemic-report-says/

How to Measure the Speed of Light with Marshmallows – Christmas Lectures with Neil Johnson https://youtu.be/ejKCiBZwB34

A Complete Archive of Vincent van Gogh’s Letters: Beautifully Illustrated and Fully Annotated http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/a-complete-archive-of-vincent-van-goghs-letters.html

How Rupert Murdoch Is Influencing Australia’s Bushfire Debate https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/world/australia/fires-murdoch-disinformation.html

Russian journals retract more than 800 papers after ‘bombshell’ investigation https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/russian-journals-retract-more-800-papers-after-bombshell-investigation

Warner Bros. Signs Deal for AI-Driven Film Management System (Exclusive) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/warner-bros-signs-deal-ai-driven-film-management-system-1268036

Electric scooter injuries rose 222 percent in 4 years in the U.S. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/electric-scooter-injuries-rose-222-percent-4-years-united-states

Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Yield Independent Measure of Universe’s Expansion https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/cosmic-magnifying-glasses-yield-independent-measure-of-universes-expansion

ORA: The World’s First Graphene Headphones https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/413314819/ora-the-worlds-first-graphene-headphones

The US military is trying to read minds https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614495/us-military-super-soldiers-control-drones-brain-computer-interfaces/

8 Ways Overseas Drug Manufacturers Dupe the FDA https://www.wired.com/story/8-ways-overseas-drug-manufacturers-dupe-fda/

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5% Chance North Atlantic Current Partially Collapses in Next 100 Years https://scitechdaily.com/15-chance-north-atlantic-current-partially-collapses-in-next-100-years/

Facebook executive says company was responsible for Trump’s victory but warns against policy changes https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/01/07/facebook-exec-says-company-was-responsible-trumps-victory-warns-against-policy-changes/

Should colleges really be putting smart speakers in dorms? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614937/colleges-smart-speakers-in-dorms-privacy/

The US just released 10 principles that it hopes will make AI safer https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615015/ai-regulatory-principles-us-white-house-american-ai-initiatve/#Echobox=1578413684

My mother’s vegetarian diet contributed to her early death. We should all learn from it https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/my-mothers-vegetarian-diet-contributed-to-her-early-death-we-should-all-learn-from-it-93653

Jupiter Is Flinging Comets Toward Earth https://gizmodo.com/jupiter-is-flinging-comets-toward-earth-1840791441

The Biggest Problems With Bluetooth Audio Are About to Be Fixed https://gizmodo.com/the-biggest-problems-with-bluetooth-audio-are-about-to-1840461602

New evidence shows that the key assumption made in the discovery of dark energy is in error https://phys.org/news/2020-01-evidence-key-assumption-discovery-dark.html

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Bill Gates: My $109 billion net worth shows the economy is not fair https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/03/bill-gates-americas-tax-system-is-not-fair.html

Rappi aposta na coleta de dados de clientes para expandir negócio https://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/inovacao,rappi-aposta-na-coleta-de-dados-de-clientes-para-expandir-negocio,70003146264

Student researchers make dismaying microplastics find in the Arctic Ocean https://phys.org/news/2020-01-student-dismaying-microplastics-arctic-ocean.html

The Concession to Climate Change I Will Not Make https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/01/becoming-parent-age-climate-crisis/604372/

A World Without Pain
Does hurting make us human? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/13/a-world-without-pain

Scoop: SoftBank shafts startups https://www.axios.com/softbank-walk-away-startups-honor-creator-seismic-8d4adc0c-dcfb-42d3-982e-f422a9963be8.html

Adolf Hitler and vegetarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_and_vegetarianism

Planeta precisa de 1,2 trilhão de novas árvores para conter o aquecimento, diz estudo https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/internacional-48859538

Walk, Run, Cha-Cha
Paul and Millie Cao reunited in California after the Vietnam War. Forty years later, they are rediscovering themselves on the dance floor. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/opinion/dance-immigration-vietnam.html

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

H2Go Power seeks to power drones with a ‘happy gas’ https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50841104

What happened after this nation banned plastic? https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p07l0ftg/what-happened-after-this-nation-banned-plastic-

How money laundering works https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-50123587/how-money-laundering-works

Where Does the World Wide Web Go From Here? https://www.wired.com/story/tim-berners-lee-world-wide-web-anniversary/

Center for Humane Technology: Realigning Technology with Humanity https://humanetech.com/

The Silicon Valley insider who says turn off your phone https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-silicon-valley-insider-who-says-turn-off-your-phone-rwspxt6xr

Ninety-nine percent of ocean plastic has gone missing https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/ninety-nine-percent-ocean-plastic-has-gone-missing

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Climate change is playing havoc with Mexico’s monarch butterfly migration https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/climate-change-is-playing-havoc-with-mexicos-monarch-butterfly-migration/2019/12/23/e60c1e0e-21ab-11ea-b034-de7dc2b5199b_story.html?arc404=true

Putin’s Big Lie https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/putin-blames-poland-world-war-ii/604426/

A handful of recent discoveries have shattered anthropologists’ picture of where humans came from, and when https://www.businessinsider.com/discoveries-change-picture-of-human-history-evolution-2020-01

Scientists Uncover a Never-Before-Seen Type of Signal Occurring in The Human Brain https://www.sciencealert.com/a-newly-discovered-signal-in-neurons-hints-at-the-power-of-the-human-brain

Happy Perihelion Day 2020! Earth Is Closest to the Sun Today https://www.space.com/earth-perihelion-closest-sun-approach-2020.html

Iran may launch “destructive” cyberattacks against the US, experts warn https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615006/iran-may-launch-destructive-cyberattacks-against-the-us-experts-warn/

Amid shut-off woes, a beacon of energy https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/01/01/amid-shut-off-woes-beacon-energy/?arc404=true

chimpanzees can do this—we can’t: https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1213860120058220546

‘It’s an Atomic Bomb’: Australia Deploys Military as Fires Spread https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/04/world/australia/fires-military.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes