Science & Technology
- Buckyballs Could Make Carbon Capture Better (Spectrum)
- Startup Lets You Track Electricity Usage of Every Device in Your Home (Spectrum)
- Engineers Invent Inks for Making 3-D Printed Fuel Cells (Spectrum)
- Candy Crush’s Puzzling Mathematics (American Scientist)
- Have scientists found first sign of Dark Matter? (Telegraph)
- The future of 3D printing (Techlife)
- Quantum Dots Enable 3-D Printing of Contacts Lens With LEDs (Spectrum)
- Will Tomorrow’s Supercomputers Be Superconducting? (Spectrum)
- Five Animal Products Scientists Can Now Grow In a Lab (Smithsonian) …tube grown beef?…
- Graphene Proves to Be Superman of Bullet Proof Materials (Spectrum)
- The Age of Asteroids (New Yorker)
- Prime Gap Grows After Decades-Long Lull (Quanta)
Medicine & Health
- How Two Startups Hope to Turn Cancer Into (Just) a Chronic Disease (Recode)
- Dreams Are Slow-Motion (Smithsonian)
- The Economic Consequences of Drug Resistance (Project-Syndicate)
- Who Owns the Biggest Biotech Discovery of the Century? (MIT Technology Review)
Environment and Global warming
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- Harvard’s David Keith Knows How to Dial Down the Earth’s Thermostat. Is It Time to Try? (Recode)
- Rosetta shows Earth’s water did not come from comets: study (Reuters)
- As Japan burns more coal, climate policies under pressure (Reuters)
- The Myth of Net-Zero Emissions (Project-Syndicate)
- A Coal Plant That Buries Its Greenhouse Gases (MIT Technology Review)
- There Are Over 5 Trillion Pieces Of Plastic Floating In Our Oceans (Gizmodo)
Culture and History
- What Happens to Society When Robots Replace Workers? (HBR)
- How to Stop the Overconsumption of Health Care (HBR)
- The Invention of the War Machine (New Atlantis)…good read…
- Euro Robotaxis Will Park and Charge, All by Themselves (Spectrum)
- Toward a Conservative Policy on Climate Change (New Atlantis)
- Turning Shipping Containers Into Urban Farms (Smithsonian)
- China’s Baidu to invest in taxi-hailing app Uber (Reuters)
- The Map That Shows Why a Pipeline Explosion in Turkey Matters to the U.S. (Bloomberg)
- Torture, deny, repeat: ‘Enhanced interrogation’ never works, the CIA never learns (Reuters) …it is a sickening revelation …
- Details of how U.S. rebuked foreign regimes while using same torture methods (Reuters)
- Men really are more stupid than women, research shows (Telegraph)
- TV Viewership and Ad Money Are Going the Way of Newspapers (Slate)
- Torture Is Who We Are (Atlantic)
- When It Comes to Early Learning, Preschool Isn’t Enough (Atlantic)
- Tudor dining: a guide to food and status in the 16th century (BBC History Extra)
Something for this eve…….
- The Geminids meteor shower should be one of the best this year (The Conversation) …..Tonight and tomorrow night…