Weekend readings: AI models learning to deceive, bestselling novels of the 19th century, "new viruses" for pandemia

• Can AI deceive humans? New research says that,
  
  Many artificial intelligence (AI) systems have already learned how to deceive humans, even systems that have been trained to be helpful and honest.
  
  
• Writing by hand helps for thinking and learning because it slows us down. The good news is that scribbling with a stylus on a screen also works. 
  
  ...according to a growing body of research that's uncovering the surprising cognitive benefits of taking pen to paper, or even stylus to iPad — for both children and adults.
  
  
• Do you know what a "croqueta" is? The Cuban cuisine in Miami. 
  
  "We've shipped to every single state now, which is just nuts to me," says Fernandez. "You don't really think anyone knows who you are outside of a zip code! There's a map in our office and we put a pin in every state we shipped to, and we've been able to fill every single state."

• 4500 years old L-shaped structure discovered in Egypt found buried near the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Giza.
  
  “It could be a part of artificial objects, because the L-shape cannot be created in natural geological structures,” says Motoyuki Sato of Tohoku University in Japan, a member of the joint Japanese-Egyptian research team that made the discovery,
  
  
• Excavations in the  "lost colony" of Roanoke. What happened to the earliest known try by the English to colonize North America? 
  
  
• Which were the bestselling novels of the 1800s? Via The Sea of Books.
  
  
• Research on "new viruses" for future pandemia. 
  
  Viruses that nobody had on their radar. They are not really new, but they have changed genetically.