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Note card model (pdf)

Read at least an article every week & prepare a note card for each

Biology, research and medicine

First CRISPR coronavirus test approved in the US (Nature)

How a brilliant biologist was failed by science (BBC / long read)

The health benefits of sunlight: Can vitamin D help beat coronavirus? (New Scientist / Science with Sam, video)

Treating cows with antibiotics doubles dung methane emissions (New Scientist)

The tiny creature that secretly powers the planet (Ted video)

African scientists launch their own preprint repository (Nature)

Revolutionary spinal cord implant helps paralyzed patients walk again (The Guardian)

Marijuana use is now as common among baby-boomers as among teens (The Washington Post)

How A 19th Century Chemist Took On The Food Industry With A Grisly Experiment (NPR)

Environment

These face masks for cows have nothing to do with coronavirus (Bloomberg worldview)

Cow review: A moving and uncomfortable cow's-eye-view of farming (New Scientist)

Microwaving plastic waste can generate clean hydrogen (New Scientist)

Divers are attempting to regrow great barrier reef (New Scientist)

Climate scientists struggle to find words for very bad news (The Washington Post)

Cleaning the Oceans (The Independent)

Viral bear video shows the dark side of filming animals with drones (The National Geographic)

Are electric cars a completely green answer for dealing with global pollution (The Independent)

Unfurling The Waste Problem Caused By Wind Energy (NPR)

California to require all new cars to be 'zero emissions' by 2035 (The Washington Post)

Technology, AI, computer science

Just don’t call it privacy (The New York Times)

How to stop data-centres from gobbling up the world’s electricity (Nature)

A hundred million dollar project to make intelligence-boosting brain implant (New Scientist)

AI could spot signs of Alzheimer's disease six years before normally diagnosed (The Telegraph)

The billionaire battle for the metaverse (The Economist)

International Space Station will plummet to a watery grave in 2031 (The Guardian)

Elon Musk has some very bad ideas. We have solutions (New York Times Opinion Video)

Language, art, sports

Is this by Rothko or a robot? We ask the experts to tell the difference between human and AI art (The Guardian)

Sting posts video of himself singing his 1985 song 'Russians' amid war in Ukraine (CNN.com)

Fears for Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi after she competed in Seoul without a hijab (the Guardian)

Is It Basketball … or Socialism? (New York Times Opinion video)

Can a trans runner like me compete fairly? (New York Times Opinion Video)

Lockdown is named Collins’ word of the year 2020 –obviously (CNN)

Vax declared Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year 2021 (BBC.com)

Oxford English dictionary asks English teenagers to explain modern Slang (the Guardian)

Banksy auction stunt leaves art world in shreds (The Guardian)

40,000 year-old cave art may be the world’s oldest animal drawing (National Geographic)

Climate activists throw soup on Vincent van Gogh painting to protest oil (ABC news)

Political & social issues

Europe and UK

Sixth-generation wire-maker blames Brexit for shredding its business (the Guardian)

Black medics in NHS paid £1000s less than white medics (The Guardian)

Europe migration : Horrific experiences on the crossing from Lybia (BBC News)

DNA shows early Briton had dark skin (BBC.com)

A safe haven in Scotland (the Miami Herald)

Caught up in the chaos at Dover, the kids and I made the best of it. Then the jaffa cakes ran out … (The Guardian)

Britons working harder than ever (The Guardian)

Hvaldimir, a Celebrated ‘Spy’ Whale, Is Found Dead in Norway (the New York Times)

Why we shouldn't call the Capitol Rioters "terrorists" (New York Times opinion video)

How America politicized abortion (The Economist | video)

Portland protesters knock down Roosevelt, Lincoln statues in 'rage' toward Columbus Day (USA Today)

You want a confederate monument ? My body is a confederate monument (The New York Times)

My Unlikely Friendship With Ruth Bader Ginsburg (The New York Times)

First woman: Smithsonian Air and Space director looks from the moon to Mars (The Guardian)

US 2024 presidential election

Trump’s hardline new quest to destroy Harris’ momentum (CNN)

Former vice-president Dick Cheney confirms he will vote for Kamala Harris (The Guardian)

World

Māori queen Nga Wai Hono i te po Paki crowned in ‘new dawn’ for New Zealand (the Guardian)

How New Zealand relied on science and empathy to fight spread of coronavirus (BBC News)

Why forcing Covid-19 vaccines on Māori could turn people away altogether (The Guardian)

It’s not just Greta Thunberg: why are we ignoring the developing world’s inspiring activists? (The Guardian)

Indigenous activists on tackling the climate crisis: 'We have done more than any government' – video

Canadian MP says Trudeau ‘doesn’t give a fuck’ about indigenous rights (The Guardian)

Russian cosmonauts board ISS wearing colours of Ukraine flag (The Guardian)

The Press in the UK