robô repórter? machine learning x astronomia, capitalismo x fome x papa #sqn, novos heróis

Why We’re So Bad at Recycling Plastic https://youtu.be/unLu7rFRGc0

Why Trees Are Out to Get You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PWMQR59M68&feature=youtu.be

What Would Trees Look Like On Other Planets? #TeamTrees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PWMQR59M68&feature=youtu.be

WeWork’s Adam Neumann Is the Most Talented Grifter of Our Time https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/how-weworks-adam-neumann-became-billionaire/600607/

Can a Machine Learn to Write for The New Yorker? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/14/can-a-machine-learn-to-write-for-the-new-yorker

Why the Search for Dark Matter Depends on Ancient Shipwrecks https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/10/search-dark-matter-depends-ancient-shipwrecks/600718/

WIRED25: Stories of People Who Are Racing to Save Us https://www.wired.com/story/wired25-stories-people-racing-to-save-us/

‘Potentially historic’ wind event could worsen California wildfires as another mass outage begins https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/26/california-wildfires-power-outages-kincade-tick/

Migrating Russian eagles run up huge data roaming charges https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50180781

Estadão Summit Brasil | O Que é Poder? https://www.sympla.com.br/estadao-summit-brasil–o-que-e-poder__645601

Slaves From Ancient Rome Help Unlock The Mysteries Of The Universe https://www.forbes.com/sites/drdonlincoln/2019/10/26/slaves-from-ancient-rome-help-unlock-the-mysteries-of-the-universe/#3fbddbd25702

Opinion: Pope Francis says capitalism causes hunger. This isn’t the first time he’s been wrong on economics https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/opinion-pope-francis-says-capitalism-causes-hunger-this-isnt-the-first-time-hes-been-wrong-on-economics

A neural net solves the three-body problem 100 million times faster https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614597/a-neural-net-solves-the-three-body-problem-100-million-times-faster/

pesquisa da Associação Brasileira de Podcasts http://abpod.com.br/podpesquisa-2019/

algoritmo racista? google x funcionários, Libra x hegemonia dos EUA, a pedra sagrada x turistas

We May Finally Know How the Universe’s Heavy Elements Formed https://www.space.com/strontium-heavy-element-formed-neutron-star-merger.html

Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html

Jack Dorsey says ‘hell no’ to joining Libra https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/24/20931058/jack-dorsey-twitter-libra-association-join

Earth’s rocks can absorb a shocking amount of carbon: here’s how https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/10/earth-rocks-can-absorb-shocking-amount-of-carbon/

A Health Care Algorithm Offered Less Care to Black Patients https://www.wired.com/story/how-algorithm-favored-whites-over-blacks-health-care/

Earthquakes Are Jolting the Netherlands. Gas Drilling Is to Blame. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/business/energy-environment/netherlands-gas-earthquakes.html

Critics say Facebook’s Libra threatens America’s power. Zuck says they’ve got it all wrong. https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614621/critics-say-facebooks-libra-threatens-americas-power-zuck-says-theyve-got-it-all-wrong/

The New Ways Your Boss Is Spying on You https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-ways-your-boss-is-spying-on-you-11563528604

Employees say Google is trying to spy on them. That’ll be hard to prove. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614623/google-spying-employees-calendar-extension-surveillance-workplace-labor-law-nlra-nlrb/

Discover the Persian 11th Century Canon of Medicine, “The Most Famous Medical Textbook Ever Written” http://www.openculture.com/2019/10/discover-the-persian-11th-century-canon-of-medicine.html

People ‘more likely to feel pain on humid days’ https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50151723

Pesticide poisoned French paradise islands in Caribbean https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50144261

Earthworms’ place on Earth mapped https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50157313

Italian police bust ‘Mafia plastic recycling ring’ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50177280

Uluru climbing ban: Tourists scale sacred rock for final time https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-50151344

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

o pacotão do wework, andar devagar x envelhecimento, CRISPR x doenças, línguas em 39b/s!

Heat camera at tourist attraction spots woman’s breast cancer https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/23/health/thermal-imaging-breast-cancer-scli-intl-scn/index.html

NASA Wants to Send a Probe to the Hellish Surface of Venus https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-wants-to-send-a-probe-to-the-hellish-surface-of-venus/

The warming climate is making baby sea turtles almost all girls https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/the-warming-climate-is-turning-baby-sea-turtles-one-gender/2019/10/21/d571f3fe-e3a6-11e9-b0a6-3d03721b85ef_story.html

Raytheon Delivers First Anti-Drone Laser Weapon to U.S. Air Force https://gizmodo.com/raytheon-delivers-first-anti-drone-laser-weapon-to-u-s-1839284326

This Is Why The Speed Of Gravity Must Equal The Speed Of Light https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/10/24/this-is-why-the-speed-of-gravity-must-equal-the-speed-of-light/#38474fbb2fc0

The FTC has banned a company from selling stalkerware for the first time https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614614/the-ftc-has-banned-a-company-from-selling-stalkerware-for-the-first-time/

All languages, however different, convey information at the same rate

Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2215202-all-languages-however-different-convey-information-at-the-same-rate/#ixzz63HS7syEn

Slow walking at 45 ‘a sign of faster ageing’ https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50015982

Scientists Program CRISPR to Fight Viruses in Human Cells https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-program-crispr-to-fight-viruses-in-human-cells/

WeWork Staff, Facing Job Cuts, Express Outrage at Founder Payout https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-22/wework-staff-facing-job-cuts-express-outrage-at-founder-payout

A Power Law Keeps the Brain’s Perceptions Balanced https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-power-law-keeps-the-brains-perceptions-balanced-20191022/

Google just launched a handful of clever apps to help you spend less time on your phone https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/23/20928613/google-digital-wellbeing-experiments-unlock-clock-we-flip-morph-post-box-desert-island