Weekly Filet #67: DNA Origami Nanorobots. And more.
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This week's top recommendation
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", Arthur Clarke famously said. It has never become clearer to me how right he was than while reading this article about mind-boggling origami research being done at MIT in Cambridge. They went all the way from an old Houdini trick to DNA origami nanorobots capable of killing cancer cells. A must read.
→ Is Origami the Future of Tech? (Bloomberg Business Week)
Further recommendations
Wikipedia never ceases to impress me. Take this: a long list of events bound to happen someday. Like, 8 billion years from now, the sun will turn into a "white dwarf". You better be prepared.
→ Timeline of the Far Future (Wikipedia)
Interesting project: This coming Tuesday, people from all over the world are asked to capture what's close to them and share their images.
→ Photographing the world on a single day (ADAY.org)
Doing some real maths - you'll get it here in human-readable form - will give you new perspectives on why playing the lottery isn't all that senseless.
→ I am a statistician and I buy lottery tickets (Simplexify)
This new radio show allows for a new approach to TED talks. Bundled by topic, NPR airs excepts from various talks and interviews the speakers. Worth your time, one hour at a time.
→ TED Radio Hour: Our Buggy Brain (NPR)
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