“…science deniers are problematic because they perpetuate misunderstandings that are no longer valuable. This typically occurs when there have been extensive and adequate corrective responses to misunderstandings.”

“Travel abroad has no effect on creativity. But the people who had *lived* in another country scored higher on a creativity test. What’s more, the people who’d lived overseas longer scored higher.”

“Davie said his depature was his own, but comes with the BBC preparing to apologise for the way the broadcaster edited a Donald Trump speech. Deborah Turness, head of BBC News, has also resigned. It follows claims by a former adviser to the broadcaster that it suffered from bias.”

Site de empresa que funciona como repartição pública no fim de semana, isto é, não funciona.

“This new emphasis mirrors a shift in public opinion. In 2010, only around 6% of respondents in a national survey considered climate change the country’s most urgent environmental problem. A paper by Chinese and American scholars published in Nature found that by 2023 the share was more than 23%.”

The monkey business and the macaque revolt: “How forty-three monkeys united animal-rights activists and the right.”

A James Watson obituary so good that even Larry Summers is burned on the side. www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...

Foi no Rodrigues Alves, né? Não levaram no Goeldi pra não ter que dizer que pode fechar por falta de verbas.

Answer: "What's a pleonasm?"

Utopia is literally 'no place'. Is there a more utopian site than the airport?

"Mamdani é comunista!!!": a maioria das propostas dele se baseia em políticas já existentes na cidade. (abcnews.go.com/US/zohran-ma...) "Vai ser ruim como De Blasio!": nem a Politico diz que de Blasio foi ruim; saiu-se melhor que o governador durante pandemia (www.politico.com/states/new-y...)

O bom e o ruim da mudança climática é que ela alcança inclusive quem não acredita nela.

On Oct 27, a Waymo self-driving car struck and killed a cat in San Francisco. “The broad anger from local residents at [Waymo] reflects the degree to which many Americans are still uncomfortable with autonomous vehicles…” You’re misreading it: they’re angry because the car killed A CAT.

In the old days, they called it a protection racket.

“Most of the days the federal government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was the president” and U.S. Congress was Republican. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

Até a dicção do ator que faz o repórter é perfeita.

One of the campiest sequences in movie history is not celebrated hard enough (and probably Cronenberg’s inspiration for his Map to the Stars). “C’mon, Oscar. Let you and me get drunk!”: Bette Davis in Stuart Heisler’s The Star (1952).

“Academy presidents often look like scared rabbits.” —Sam Staggs on the job profile of AMPAS presidents.

Adam Kucharski: "This isn’t just an anecdotal finding based on my trial-and-error attempts. Several studies have found that large language models can give convincing looking answers to survey-style questions, but also that responses can diverge from human data in systematic ways."

Eduardo Bolsonaro faz lobby para governo estrangeiro penalizar economicamente Brasil. Flávio Bolsonaro sugere a governo estrangeiro que execute ataques em território brasileiro. Claudio Castro manda relatórios de segurança pública a governo estrangeiro. Agora me diga se não é golpe de estado 2.0.

AI is a game-changing pop-up!

The fat orange lady does not sing.

‘A study of singles in 14 countries found that only 40% said they were “not interested in being in a relationship”.’ ‘Only’ is a big typo here.

O dever de todo editor na imprensa brasileira hoje é despachar equipe pra fuçar aborto de esposa e pedófilos na família de 317 deputados federais.

“Competition over access to Sudan’s resources — particularly gold and gum arabic — has fueled the rivalry between the military and RSF, and drawn their backers’ interest [Egypt and UAE]. Each side has helped finance the fight by selling resources in areas under its control.”

Este problema de saúde pública é um oferecimento da Caixa.

I hope he lived long enough to change his mind on some topics. If nothing else, his life showed that even the deepest legacies of science & discovery do not overcome personal accountability in word and deed.

A bolder alternative to Paulusson.

Não é que ele se parece fisicamente com o Huck? www1.folha.uol.com.br/cotidiano/20...

COP e coxinha a 30.

Larry's World.

You can see the universe is working as usual.

People rush to help a guest who collapsed during a press conference on weight-loss drugs at the White House. (The man was apparently on a weight-loss drug.) Meanwhile, Donald stands up and stares stump-shouldered into the ether. Magnificent shot by Andrew Harnik for Getty.

"Quatro senadores — Randolfe Rodrigues (PT-AP), Davi Alcolumbre (União Brasil-AP), Lucas Barreto (PSD-AP) e Márcio Bittar (PL-AC) — têm usado argumentos enganosos para defender a pesquisa e a exploração de petróleo na foz do rio Amazonas."

Robert Bork's America: 'Today, the villainous ideology described in Slouching [Towards Gomorrah] has come to be known by other more familiar names: “DEI,” “the radical left,” and, of course, “wokeness.”'

"U.S. renewable electricity generation, including wind, solar and hydro power, has nearly tripled since 1995, helping to further reduce emissions from electricity generation. Costs for solar and wind power have fallen so much that they are now cheaper than coal and competitive with natural gas."

"YouTube confirmed to The Intercept that it deleted the groups’ accounts as a direct result of State Department sanctions against the group... over their work with the ICC in cases charging Israeli officials of war crimes."

Bare your claws! Sharpen your tongues!

“The r/Democrats subreddit currently bans any mention of Democratic Socialist candidates. Just so you have a sense of how pervasive all of this even still this week.”

“O pioneiro do empreendedorismo magistocrático de escala foi Gilmar Mendes. A CBF Academy foi sua última inovação. André Mendonça resolveu peregrinar nessa avenida dos negócios e virar ministro-empresário.” www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/conr...

“O Doce tá morto.”

‘On average… the company shows its platforms’ users an estimated 15 billion “higher risk” scam advertisements – those that show clear signs of being fraudulent – every day. Meta earns about $7 billion in annualized revenue from this category of scam ads each year, another late 2024 document states.’

“The banks doling out the most money to so-called forest-risk commodity companies are based in Brazil, led by Banco do Brasil SA… equity investments in deforestation-linked industries have climbed at asset managers including BlackRock Inc., Vanguard Group Inc. and State Street Corp.”

But of course.

The Americanization of the Maybot.

Pelo pacote de pagamento que os acionistas da Tesla toparam, Elon recebe cerca de $80 mil por carro vendido (o preço médio de um Cybertruck). O Tesla mais barato (Model 3) custa $37 mil e o mais caro lá pelos $120 mil. Isto significa que o negócio da Tesla não é realmente vender carro.

“Ao expandir a estrutura típica das tramas policiais – para dar conta de temas como o amor, o desejo e os traumas familiares…” Amiga, TODA trama policial decente faz isso desde sempre.

The first cinematic Frankenstein was woke.