Video: Lambs in Weybridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVq4Z2P_2OI WEYBRIDGE — Every March, Duclos & Thompson Farm holds an open barn event for the community, and thousands show up to mingle with the new lambs. The event was cancelled this year because of the pandemic, but the lambs are as cute as ever.

Video: How CRISPR works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anqh0MMmLjs&t=76s MIDDLEBURY — The 12 members of Professor Lindsay Repka’s CHEM 0322 – Biochemistry of Macromolecules course at Middlebury College this spring studied CRISPR, the gene-editing technology, and produced a … (read more)

Video: Conversation with a robot, Part 2

This is part two in a three-part video series highlighting my late-January interview with the human-like robot Bina48. Commissioned by futurist and serial entrepreneur Martine Rothblatt, Bina48 is an android physically designed and programmed based on the … (read more)

Robot blurs biological boundaries

LINCOLN — In the hills of Lincoln exists a robot with a face that moves, eyes that see, ears that hear and a digital mind that enables conversation. Her name is Bina48. The unassuming android with a brown wig and pearls has been gaining notoriety since he … (read more)

Video: Conversation with a robot, Part 1

Commissioned by futurist and serial entrepreneur Martine Rothblatt, Bina48 is an android physically designed and programmed based on the appearance and personality of Rothblatt’s spouse, Bina Rothblatt (See related story). The first time I visited Bina48 … (read more)