Viewed in 2026 on natural sciences, engineering, and technology

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This post aims to compile all the links to articles, news reports, and posts I've viewed about exact sciences, engineering, and technology in 2026.

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Martin G. B. Bittencourt

Engineering and technology in general

The Economist: A chilling near-miss shows how today’s digital infrastructure is vulnerable

The Economist: What will humans do if technology solves everything?

The Economist: Graphene, a wondrous material, starts to prove useful

The Economist: It is dangerously easy to hack the world’s phones

The Economist: A new way to generate electricity from water

The Economist: Geothermal’s time has finally come

Instagram: USP project develops portable chip factories (Portuguese)

Artificial intelligence

Instagram: AI changed how people voted in 3 countries

Natural sciences

Others

The Economist: The end of the social network

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Viewed in 2026 regarding well-being, physical and mental health

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This post aims to compile all the links to articles, news reports, and posts I've viewed on the topics of "well-being" and "health," both physical and mental, in 2026.

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Martin G. B. Bittencourt

Nutrition

The Economist: What makes ultra-processed foods so bad for your health?

The Economist: Brain-boosting substances are all the rage

The Economist: Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad for you

Instagram: PhD discusses the effects of intermittent fasting (Portuguese)

Instagram: Comments on misinformation about the carnivore diet shared by a doctor (Portuguese)

Exercise

Mind and mental health

The Economist: What is screen time doing to children?

The Economist: Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers

The Economist: Can you breathe stress away?

Instagram: Commentaries on studies about the benefits of not using social apps frequently

X/Twitter: Igor Eckert on the problems with the research pointing out a connection between Tylenol and Autism (Portuguese)

Others

The Economist: Cheap fixes could help 450m people stand taller and think quicker

The Economist: Why the war on childhood obesity is failing

The Economist: How to beat jet lag

The Economist: Is obesity a disease?

The Economist: Does taping your mouth while you sleep have benefits?

The Economist: How to get power naps right

Instagram: Research questions evidence of microplastics throughout the human body (Portuguese)

Instagram: Study reveals increase in schizophrenia cases after marijuana legalization (Portuguese)

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Viewed in 2026 on international affairs

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This post aims to compile all the links to articles, news reports, and posts I've viewed about international affairs in 2026.

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Martin G. B. Bittencourt

America

United States

Instagram: Former CIA Brian Beckhorn on why the USA is not after Venezuela because of oil

The Economist: David Owen argues that Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both too old to be president

Instagram: Trump's first year in numbers

The Economist: America’s elite universities are bloated, complacent, and illiberal

The Economist: Why affirmative action in American universities had to go

The Economist: Plenty of circumstantial evidence at Donald Trump’s trial

The Economist: America’s reckless borrowing is a danger to its economy—and the world’s

The Economist: The real theme of J.D. Vance’s and Donald Trump’s memoirs

The Economist: An American sovereign-wealth fund is a risky idea

The Economist: America is becoming less “woke”

The Economist: Is Kamala Harris right to call Donald Trump a fascist?

The Economist: The Americans who think Trump is anointed by God

The Economist: Jimmy Carter was perhaps the most virtuous of all America’s presidents

The Economist: An American purchase of Greenland could be the deal of the century

The Economist: Much of the damage from the LA fires could have been averted

The Economist: The new American imperialism

The Economist: Tariffs will harm America, not induce a manufacturing rebirth

The Economist: Donald Trump has rewritten the history of January 6th

The Economist: Two presidents compete over the worst abuse of the pardon power

The Economist: How covid contributed to a crisis of trust in América

The Economist: The tariff madness of King Donald, explained

The Economist: America’s financial system came close to the brink

The Economist: Five crazy Trump tariffs you wouldn’t believe

The Economist: Trump’s “Liberation Day” is set to whack America’s economy

The Economist: Six charts show the impact of Obamacare

The Economist: Why so many children in America have ADHD

The Economist: Donald Trump’s bleak, incoherent foreign-policy strategy

The Economist: America has coped with worse things than Donald Trump

The Economist: Why overdose deaths are falling in America

The Economist: The radical honesty of Donald Trump

The Economist: America’s missing manufacturing renaissance 

Instagram: Analysis of the erosion of US democracy under Donald Trump's second term (Portuguese)

The Economist: Meet the brains who explain Trumpism

Others

The Economist: Gangsters in El Salvador are terrified of strongman Nayib Bukele

The Economist: Latin America’s new hard right: Bukele, Milei, Kast and Bolsonaro

The Economist: Nicolás Maduro’s sham election: the sequel

The Economist: Why the IMF should bail out a serial deadbeat

The Economist: El Salvador’s wild crypto experiment ends in failure

The Economist: Cuba is heading for disaster, unless its regime changes drastically

Europe

The Economist: Belarus prepares for another fraudulent election

The Economist: The secret behind the world’s happiest country

The Economist: A short history of Russia and Ukraine

The Economist: Why France has made abortion a constitutional right

The Economist: Russians go to the polls in a sham election for their president

The Economist: Why are Nordic companies so successful?

Asia

Middle East

The Economist: The real problem with the UN’s agency for Palestinians

The Economist: The war-crimes case against the leaders of Israel and Hamas is flawed

The Economist: The world court says Israel’s occupation is illegal

The Economist: Is a Palestinian state a fantasy?

The Economist: A short history of Syria, in maps

Instagram: Karl Marx and his commentary on the presence and situation of Jews in Israel during his time (Portuguese)

Instagram: Professor comments on Jews going to Israel as refugees and not as colonizers

Others

The Economist: Xi Jinping’s misguided plan to escape economic stagnation

The Economist: A short history of India in eight maps

The Economist: Why Japan’s economy remains a warning to others

The Economist: Yamini Aiyar laments the damage done to Indian democracy under Narendra Modi

The Economist: Singapore has achieved astounding economic success

The Economist: Colin Huang, China’s richest man

The Economist: Why is Thai health care so good?

The Economist: A short history of Taiwan and China, in maps

The Economist: How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America

The Economist: Why India’s elite loves Narendra Modi

The Economist: How China’s communists fell in love with privatisation

The Economist: The unholy alliance of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Kremlin

The Economist: How to clean up India’s filthy cities

The Economist: How 1.4bn Indians are adapting to climate change

The Economist: How (un)popular is China’s Communist Party?

The Economist: How the persecution of sparrows killed 2m people

The Economist: India has undermined a popular myth about development

Africa

The Economist: Ugandan judges uphold a draconian anti-gay law

The Economist: Why Sudan’s catastrophic war is the world’s problem

The Economist: How South Africa has changed 30 years after apartheid

The Economist: The capitalist revolution Africa needs

The Economist: The success of Ivory Coast is Africa’s best-kept secret

Oceania

The Economist: Why do Australians live so long?

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Viewed in 2026 on intellect: mind, beliefs and ideas

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This post aims to compile all the links to articles, news reports, and posts I've viewed about topics related to intellect, such as beliefs and ideas, in 2026.

I hope you find it useful!

Martin G. B. Bittencourt

Political ideas, their foundations and defenses

Non-political philosophy

The Economist: The rights and wrongs of assisted dying

Science

Religion and theology

Christianity

YouTube: Explanation of the text "yet today you will be with me in Paradise"

YouTube: Will we do greater works than Jesus?

The Economist: How odd Christian beliefs about sex shape the world

Instagram: What did Jesus meant by "blessed be the peacemakers"

Instagram: Comments on the use of Romans 13 to blindly defend unfair State action

Instagram: A brief history of the Catholic Church's "witch hunts"

Islam

Others

The Economist: God™: an ageing product outperforms expectations

Reasoning, formation of beliefs, and rational capacity

The Economist: How to raise the world’s IQ

The Economist: Want to win an argument? Use a chatbot

The Economist: Beware the dangers of data

Instagram: How your ancient instincts still sabotage you in the modern world

Instagram: How does different wording change people's perception and their decisions

Instagram: Why facts rarely change political beliefs

Others

The Economist: Schools in rich countries are making poor progress

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Viewed in 2026 on family, relationships, and society

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This post aims to compile all the links to articles, news reports, and posts I've viewed about family, relationships, and society in 2026.

I hope you find it useful!

Martin G. B. Bittencourt

Marriage and sexuality

Instagram: The importance of asking for forgiveness and ways to do it

Instagram: 10 awkward (but essential) money convos to have before getting married

The Economist: Same-sex sexual behaviour in primates is a survival strategy

Instagram: Top questions to ask before getting married

The Economist: Age gaps in relationships are not as bad as you think

Instagram: 10 things to be aware of before marrying someone

Instagram: The big "red flag" of a person not accepting their partner's influence

Instagram: Sex and Husband: 10 principles every woman needs to understand (Portuguese)

Instagram: Comments and councils on average value women wanting high-value men

Parenthood and child development

The Economist: Giving children the wrong (or not enough) toys may doom a society

Instagram: Research suggests that the biggest predictor of success in adulthood is self-control in childhood

Instagram: Study results on satisfaction with having children (Portuguese)

Instagram: What makes parents good parents?

Others

The Economist: Why people have fallen out of love with dating apps

The Economist: Universal child care can harm children

Instagram: Examples of systemic sexism against men

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