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Why the world is becoming more allergic to food https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46302780

MPs’ fury over Mark Zuckerberg ‘no-show’ https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46357359

A Sleeping Tesla Driver Highlights Autopilot’s Biggest Flaw https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-sleeping-driver-dui-arrest-autopilot/

Why Amazon is a ‘bully’ and Facebook and Google are ‘the enemies of independent thought’ https://www.recode.net/2018/12/3/18123225/amazon-google-facebook-antitrust-monopoly-franklin-foer-world-without-mind-book-kara-swisher-decode

Your smartphone’s AI algorithms could tell if you are depressed https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612499/your-smartphones-ai-algorithms-could-tell-if-you-are-depressed/

BBC newsreader ‘speaks’ languages he can’t https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-46104437/bbc-newsreader-speaks-languages-he-can-t

Why don’t birds get lost? They may have mastered quantum mechanics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/09/why-dont-birds-get-lost-they-may-have-mastered-quantum-mechanics/

Chinese scientist who claimed gene-editing success now missing: report https://thehill.com/policy/technology/419462-chinese-scientist-who-claimed-gene-editing-success-now-missing-report

The Baltic Sea offers a preview of what’s to come with global warming https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/the-baltic-sea-offers-a-preview-of-whats-to-come-with-global-warming/2018/11/29/f52f470a-95c3-11e8-818b-e9b7348cd87d_story.html

Bill Gates Shares the 5 Best Books He Read This Year http://amp.timeinc.net/time/5468986/bill-gates-best-books-2018

21 lições para o século 21, por Yuval Noah Harari https://leiavaleapena.tumblr.com/post/179897629393/21-li%C3%A7%C3%B5es-para-o-s%C3%A9culo-21-por-yuval-noah-harari

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In China, Gene-Edited Babies Are the Latest in a String of Ethical Dilemmas https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/world/asia/gene-editing-babies-china.html

Why Are Taxi Drivers in New York Killing Themselves? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/nyregion/taxi-drivers-suicide-nyc.html

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35 weird objects seen on Mars, explained https://www.cnet.com/pictures/weird-objects-on-mars-pictures/

Particles crossing to our world could open portal to dark-matter realm https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24032061-600-particles-crossing-to-our-world-could-open-portal-to-dark-matter-realm/

Strange waves rippled around the world, and nobody knows why https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/11/strange-earthquake-waves-rippled-around-world-earth-geology/

Strange seismic waves were picked up circling the globe on November 11. Now seismologists are trying to figure out why https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/strange-seismic-waves-were-picked-up-circling-the-globe-on-november-11-now-seismologists-are-trying-to-figure-out-why/news-story/31a4e88570f95dfea9e1a0fe7a7daf2e

Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181126-is-breakfast-good-for-your-health

Making AI algorithms crazy fast using chips powered by light https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612449/making-ai-algorithms-crazy-fast-using-chips-powered-by-light/

AI system focused on finding overlooked links in millions of scientific studies https://newatlas.com/ai-cancer-algorithm-research-cambridge/57434/

Uber has cracked two classic ’80s video games by giving an AI algorithm a new type of memory https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612470/uber-has-cracked-two-classic-80s-video-games-by-giving-an-ai-algorithm-a-new-type-of-memory/

How science supports São Paulo https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07536-1

China reportedly tracks EV data including drivers’ locations https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/29/china-tracks-ev-data-drivers-locations/

Chinese Government Says It Has Shut Down Controversial Human Gene-Editing Project https://gizmodo.com/chinese-government-says-it-has-shut-down-controversial-1830751956

The Human Origin Story Has Changed Again, Thanks to New Discovery in Algeria https://gizmodo.com/the-human-origin-story-has-changed-again-thanks-to-new-1830747304

o livro Beautiful Evidence do Edward Tufte https://leiavaleapena.tumblr.com/post/54923010321/beautiful-evidence-tufte

as três conclusões sobre 1.045 estudos sobre comportamento humano (imagem do livro mencionado acima):

1. some do, some don’t
2. the differences aren’t very great
3. it’s more complicated than that

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How to Survive the Next Era of Tech (Slow Down and Be Mindful) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/technology/how-to-survive-the-next-era-of-tech-slow-down-and-be-mindful.html

End of Space – Creating a Prison for Humanity https://youtu.be/yS1ibDImAYU

Outrage Over Human Gene Editing Will Fade Fast https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-27/crispr-fears-designer-baby-outrage-won-t-last-as-ethics-evolve

‘I feel an obligation to be balanced.’ Noted biologist comes to defense of gene editing babies https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/i-feel-obligation-be-balanced-noted-biologist-comes-defense-gene-editing-babies

Electric scooters are now disrupting wrists, elbows and heads https://www.cnet.com/news/electric-scooters-by-bird-and-lime-are-causing-injuries-and-accidents/

Cutting emissions could prevent tens of thousands of heat deaths annually https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612473/death-will-be-one-of-the-highest-economic-costs-of-climate-change/

Climate change’s highest cost: Overheated employees too miserable to work https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612480/lost-labor-productivity-will-exact-the-single-biggest-cost-from-climate-change/

Twilight of the Taj https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/twilight_of_the_taj

Companies fed up with crappy Wi-Fi are deploying 5G instead https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612477/companies-fed-up-with-crappy-wi-fi-are-deploying-5g-instead/