Med School Robots, A Driveable LEGO Car, and the Web Design Museum: Lux Recommends #147

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Sep 7, 2018 · 2 min read

By Sam Arbesman, PhD

Welcome to Lux Recommends #147, this week’s edition of what we at Lux are reading and thinking about (and want to receive this by email? Sign up here).

Articles

Can mRNA disrupt the drug industry? Messenger RNA technology promises to turn our bodies into medicine-making factories. But first Moderna — and a long list of old and new competitors — needs to overcome some major scientific challenges — Adam G

Life-Size and Drivable LEGO Technic Bugatti Chiron: This is wild. — Sam

Probiotics are mostly useless and can actually hurt you: “The take-home message is that probiotics don’t always live up to their harmless reputation, and to be effective, their formula needs to be tailored to the individual.” — Adam G

The Global Internet Is Being Attacked by Sharks, Google ConfirmsAdam K

A new paradigm for the scientific enterprise: nurturing the ecosystem: Exploring how to rethink so many aspects of how science operates. — Sam

The Web Design Museum: “The museum exhibits over 900 carefully selected and sorted web sites that show web design trends between the years 1995 and 2005.” — Sam

This Hyper-Real Robot Will Cry and Bleed on Med Students: “Hal was built to suffer. He is a medical training robot, the sort of invention that emerges when one of the most stressful jobs on Earth tumbles into the uncanny valley.” — Adam K

Runs in the Family: “Kansas City Chiefs running backs coach Deland McCullough went searching for his biological parents. He found them where he never would have expected.” — Peter

And This grass cross-section is clearly quite happyAdam K

Movies

The Bleeding Edge: “This eye-opening look at the fast-growing medical device industry reveals how the rush to innovate can lead to devastating consequences for patients.” — Adam G

Videos

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