Breaking Brick Stereotypes: LEGO Unveils a Female Scientist
By Maia Weinstock from scientificamerican.com: It’s 11:47 am on the Sunday before Labor Day, and I’m staking out a LEGO store inside a Byzantine shopping mall on the outskirts of Boston. I am here with a coterie of children and parents, the lot of us waiting impatiently while three LEGO associates in black shirts and […]
The Surgical Robot That Can Roam Around Inside Your Abdomen Like a Frog
By Jason Bittel from Slate.com: From the chest-burster in Alien to the bellybutton bot in The Matrix, most of us are a wee bit squeamish about the whole thing-crawling-around-inside-you experience. And if thoughts of parasites playing poker in your body cavity already keep you up at night, this article probably isn’t for you—because scientists are […]