Lab-Grown Brains, Recycling Cruise Ships, and Crazy-Looking Fish: Lux Recommends #253
Welcome to Lux Recommends #253, this week’s edition of what we at Lux are reading and thinking about (want to receive this by email? Sign up here).
Articles
Can lab-grown brains become conscious? “A handful of experiments are raising questions about whether clumps of cells and disembodied brains could be sentient, and how scientists would know if they were.” — Sam
The Messy, Booming Business of Recycling Cruise Ships: “Thanks to the pandemic, the practice of breaking apart ships and selling them for parts is on the rise.” — Peter
A MacArthur ‘genius’ will likely use his grant to support his wife’s work — in the name of science — Deena
Colorado is a rectangle? Think again. “The Centennial State has 697 sides‚ not four.” — Sam
Touch and taste? It’s all in the suckers: “Harvard researchers uncover how the sensors in octopus suction cups work” — Deena
I’m The Woman Who Helped Discover Water On The Moon — Deena
Why Is There a Full-Scale Replica of the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee? — Sam
Man and dog: Ancient genetics study reveals complex history — Adam K
Voice Technology’s Role in Our Rapidly Changing World — Deena
And Crazy-looking fish from the deep sea — Adam K
Books
The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China by Jonathan Kaufman: “An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era” — friend of Lux Bobby D
Videos
Landing in a plane with a wingsuit — Adam K
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