Link About It: This Week’s Picks

The origin story of Monopoly, an advanced map of Mars and a new reason to avoid going out in our weekly look at the web

1. How Income Inequality Led to the Creation of Monopoly While Monopoly may be the world’s best-known board game, the story behind its creation has long been shrouded in mystery—until now. A man named Charles Darrow is usually the one credited as the game’s inventor, but as it turns out, a typist named Lizzie Magie originally came up with Monopoly as a way to teach …

Watch Six Microbots Pull an Entire Car

Replicating the way ants work together to move objects hundreds of times their weight, scientists at the Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Laboratory (BDML) Stanford University have created a small team of micro tug robots. Recently, a team of just six of these impressive microbots—weighing in at a combined 100 grams—was able to pull an entire car with a human sitting inside, or about 1800 kilograms. …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Vale Ray Tomlinson, a 3D-printed bike and what it's like to be a woman in 2016

1. Meet Loongkoonan, One of Australia’s Oldest Artists At the age of 105, Aboriginal artist Loongkoonan is believed to be one of Australia’s oldest painters. Using acrylic paints on canvas and linen, she creates award-winning works depicting her century-long connection to the land and her heritage. She’s produced around 380 works so far (with no sign of slowing down), and she’s currently exhibiting at the …