The non-World Cup news from Brazil

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Tabitha M. Powledge writes about anything but soccer, including the threats facing the three-banded armadillo, which is the official World Cup mascot, and about Brazil's progress in saving its rainforests: "It's a stunning achievement. The forecast is that clearcutting the Amazon rainforest will have stopped by 2020. In 2005, nearly 20,000 square kilometers were being cleared every year." Also, Why did so many writers believe that a computer had passed the Turing test?

June 14, 2014

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