Each week, we share the top five articles that caught our attention. Here are your must-reads, published here and abroad, for the week of October 15th 2018.
Why have humans never found aliens?
According to Jason Wright and his colleagues, astronomers have seen no sign of aliens. because they haven’t been looking hard enough.
→ Read it on The Economist
How Fortnite could defeat climate change
Wondering about how to make your gaming time more useful? The Climate Fortnite Squad was created to raise awareness about global warming while playing Fortnite.
→ Read it on The Verge
Raised by YouTube
The platform’s entertainment for children is weirder—and more globalized—than adults could have expected. From educational cartoons to how-to videos, there’s something for everyone!
→ Read it on The Atlantic
The next great (digital) extinction
Dinosaurs disappeared millions of years ago, and according to Joi Ito, Director of MIT Media Lab, we are in the midst of another pivotal moment in history that he calls the Great Digitization Event.
→ Read it on Wired
What legal weed in Canada means for science
Now that cannabis is legal in Canada, the opportunities abound to improve the cultivation of the once-forbidden plant.
→ Read it on Nature
In your earbuds: T’es où Youssef
This series follows director Gabriel Allard-Gagnon and producer Mathieu Paiement as they try to discover what happened to Youssef, a young man swept up in the wave of jihadi recruitment. But it also chronicles the experiences of two Quebecers in a compelling new environment where nothing is black and white.
→ Listen to it on Télé-Québec (In French)
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