Drug Discovery, Microscopy, and Ants that Count: Lux Recommends #226
Welcome to Lux Recommends #226, this week’s edition of what we at Lux are reading and thinking about (want to receive this by email? Sign up here).
Articles
Gene variant staves off Alzheimer’s in some people: “Stanford Medicine researchers have found a gene variant that protects carriers of another gene variant, ApoE4, from developing Alzheimer’s disease — the first demonstration of that beneficial effect.” — Adam G
Meet the Teen Online Racing Whiz Pro Drivers Want to Know: “With IndyCar and Nascar shifting to iRacing simulated competition amid the pandemic, a high-school junior is giving tips to professional racers” — Adam K
‘Directing’ evolution to identify potential drugs earlier in discovery: “Scientists have developed a technique that could significantly reduce the time of discovering potential new antibody-based drugs to treat disease.” — Adam G
Self-aligning microscope smashes limits of super-resolution microscopy — Adam G
Stabilizing brain-computer interfaces: “Researchers from CMU and Pitt have published research in Nature Biomedical Engineering that will drastically improve brain-computer interfaces and their ability to remain stabilized during use, greatly reducing or potentially eliminating the need to recalibrate these devices during or between experiments.” — Adam G
Chernobyl’s legacy recorded in trees — Adam K
This maze-like urban park is designed to keep everyone 6 feet apart: “One person can enter each path at a time for a walk.” — Adam K
Coronavirus Vaccine Prospects — Ian
Books
Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen: “Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter. But his current life is a far cry from his previous career…as a time-traveling secret agent from over a century in the future. Stranded in suburban San Francisco since the 1990s after a botched mission, Kin has kept his past hidden from everyone around him, until one afternoon, his ‘rescue’ team arrives — eighteen years too late.” — Sam
Television
The Last Dance: “a definitive account of Michael Jordan’s career and the Chicago Bulls, packed with unaired footage from the 1997–98 Chicago Bulls season, Jordan’s final season with the Bulls.” — Sego
Movies
The Story of Plastic: “a sweeping look at the man-made crisis of plastic pollution and the worldwide effect it has on the health of our planet and the people who inhabit it” — Adam K
Videos
How I made a basketball hoop that always goes in — Adam K
Coronavirus has wiped out more than 90% of international flights — Peter
Frank Luntz interviews Mike Milken about fighting COVID-19— Robert Edelstein, Friend of Lux
These two women are playing tennis from rooftop to rooftop in the Italian city of Liguria to pass time during the pandemic— Adam K
Building a pool by hand — friend of Lux Josh Caspi
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