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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

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AI is reinventing the way we invent https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612898/ai-is-reinventing-the-way-we-invent/

OpenAI built a text generator so good, it’s considered too dangerous to release https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/17/openai-text-generator-dangerous/

What Did Opportunity’s ‘last Words’ Actually Mean? https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/editorial/what-did-opportunitys-last-words-actually-mean/

The technology behind OpenAI’s fiction-writing, fake-news-spewing AI, explained https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612975/ai-natural-language-processing-explained/

China is using facial recognition to track millions of Muslim citizens wherever they go https://qz.com/1552708/china-is-using-facial-recognition-to-track-millions-of-muslim-citizens-wherever-they-go/

Branco é índio https://ciencia.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,branco-e-indio,70002694992

Enquanto dormimos https://ciencia.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,enquanto-dormimos,70002723805

Life Without Plastic Is Possible. It’s Just Very Hard. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/style/plastic-free-living.html

Chinese surveillance company found tracking 2.5 million people https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/17/chinese-surveillance-company-tracks-2-5-million-people/

Scientist who resisted censorship of climate report lost her job https://grist.org/article/scientist-who-resisted-censorship-of-climate-report-lost-her-job/

The community that rejected Amazon https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47252045

Why Rembrandt’s The Night Watch is still a mystery http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190214-does-rembrandts-the-night-watch-reveal-a-murder-plot