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How Blind People See With Sound… feat. Molly Burke! https://youtu.be/08smCjKWNL0

Archaeologists unearth gold-lined Mycenaean royal tombs in Greece https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/two-bronze-age-royal-tombs-lined-with-gold-discovered-in-greece/

Invasions of the Sea Peoples: Egypt & The Late Bronze Age Collapse https://youtu.be/8A8W3yA_HWs

1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Eric Cline, PhD) https://youtu.be/bRcu-ysocX4

Why DNA testing kits shouldn’t be on your holiday shopping list https://qz.com/1773564/why-dna-testing-kits-shouldnt-be-on-your-holiday-shopping-list/

What Does It Mean When Everyone Can Get Their DNA Sequenced? https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/what-does-it-mean-when-everyone-can-get-their-dna-sequenced

Uninstall This Alleged Emirati Spy App From Your Phone Now https://www.wired.com/story/totok-alleged-emirati-spy-app/

New Turmoil Over Predicting the Effects of Genes https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-turmoil-over-predicting-the-effects-of-genes-20190423/

So You Think You Know Gravity? Let Us Drop Some Knowledge https://www.wired.com/story/so-you-think-you-know-gravity-let-us-drop-some-knowledge/

Is the Universe a conscious mind?
Cosmopsychism might seem crazy, but it provides a robust explanatory model for how the Universe became fine-tuned for life https://aeon.co/essays/cosmopsychism-explains-why-the-universe-is-fine-tuned-for-life

The immune system listens in on bacteria signaling to each other https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/the-immune-system-listens-in-on-bacteria-signaling-to-each-other/

Trump rails against windmills: ‘I never understood wind’ https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/475701-trump-rails-against-windmills-i-never-understood-wind

Study Shows How Pollution, Climate Change Could Make Us Dumber https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2019/12/22/study-shows-how-pollution-climate-change-could-make-us-dumber/#6a997d803a96

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Mysterious Circular DNA Causes Cancer in Children – Surprising New Insights Into Cancer Genetics https://scitechdaily.com/mysterious-circular-dna-causes-cancer-in-children-surprising-new-insights-into-cancer-genetics/

Your Genes Suck at Predicting Your Health, Study Finds https://gizmodo.com/your-genes-suck-at-predicting-your-health-study-finds-1840541244

Theory Suggests That All Genes Affect Every Complex Trait https://www.quantamagazine.org/omnigenic-model-suggests-that-all-genes-affect-every-complex-trait-20180620/

Science Confirms That the Vagus Nerve Is Key to Well-being https://elemental.medium.com/science-confirms-that-the-vagus-nerve-is-key-to-well-being-c23fab90e211

Seriously, Stop Trying to Teach Toddlers How to Code https://www.wired.com/story/for-heavens-sake-stop-teaching-toddlers-how-to-code/

How classroom technology is holding students back https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614893/classroom-technology-holding-students-back-edtech-kids-education/

Building the Moroccan Court https://youtu.be/Og6cTlwBTrk

One Nation, Tracked
An Investigation Into The Smartphone Tracking Industry https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html

8 Things to Know About Our Investigation Into the Location Business https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/nyt-cellphone-tracking-investigation.html

Global animal movements based on Movebank data (map) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUKh0fr1Od8&ab_channel=Movebank

Estudo da USP diz que classificação ‘Centro e periferia’ é ultrapassada e identifica 8 novos padrões urbanísticos em SP https://g1.globo.com/sp/sao-paulo/noticia/2019/12/18/estudo-da-usp-diz-que-classificacao-centro-e-periferia-e-ultrapassada-e-identifica-8-novos-padroes-urbanisticos-em-sp.ghtml

The Politics of Exhaustion
Voters pick whichever candidate exhausts them less. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/12/opinion/UK-election-politics-boris-johnson.html

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How Cuba’s digital revolutionaries are fighting for change https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-50823142/how-cuba-s-digital-revolutionaries-are-fighting-for-change

RICARDO GALVÃO: Science defender https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-019-03749-0/index.html

Like Bill Gates, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Is a Bookworm—Here Are His Top 3 Picks https://observer.com/2019/12/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-book-recommendation-2019-bill-gates/

China Responds Slowly, and a Pig Disease Becomes a Lethal Epidemic https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/business/china-pigs-african-swine-fever.html

A Coal Baron Funded Climate Denial as His Company Spiraled Into Bankruptcy https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/climate/murray-energy-climate-denial-coal.html

Earth’s Magnetic North Pole Has Officially Moved (Toward Russia) https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/12/17/earths-magnetic-north-pole-has-officially-moved-toward-russia/#3ac02d0b201f

Australia Records Its Hottest Day. At Least for Now. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/world/australia/record-heat.html

Un nuevo diseño de inodoro busca reducir los largos “descansos” en los baños públicos y laborales https://www.infobae.com/america/mundo/2019/12/17/un-nuevo-diseno-de-inodoro-busca-reducir-los-largos-descansos-en-los-banos-publicos/

Genome-wide analysis identifies molecular systems and 149 genetic loci associated with income https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13585-5

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Conspiracy theories: How belief is rooted in evolution, not ignorance https://phys.org/news/2019-12-conspiracy-theories-belief-rooted-evolution.html

JBL says its solar-powered headphones deliver ‘unlimited’ listening https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/16/jbl-reflect-eternal-solar-powered-headphones/

4 common but harmful myths about how your brain works https://www.fastcompany.com/90443201/4-common-but-harmful-myths-about-how-your-brain-works

Keynes was wrong. Gen Z will have it worse. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614892/keynes-was-wrong-gen-z-will-have-it-worse/

The world’s oceans are acidifying — but it’s happening twice as fast off California https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/world-s-oceans-are-acidifying-it-s-happening-twice-fast-n1102901

Earth’s Atmosphere Had Terrifying Mercury Pollution Even Before The Killer Asteroid https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-s-atmosphere-was-polluted-with-mercury-even-before-the-asteroid-that-killed-the-dinosaurs

Fossil shells reveal both global mercury contamination and warming when dinosaurs perished https://phys.org/news/2019-12-fossil-shells-reveal-global-mercury.html

A closer look at the diabetes disaster http://news.mit.edu/2019/traveling-sugar-moran-thomas-1217

Top tech firms sued over DR Congo cobalt mining deaths https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-50812616

Researchers Explore A Drug-Free Idea To Relieve Chronic Pain: Green Light https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/12/15/787138928/researchers-explore-a-drug-free-idea-to-relieve-chronic-pain-green-light