Welcome! This week I have seven fun and interesting STEM links. If you ever need to start a campfire and have a pair of glasses handy, there’s a link how to make that happen. Also a 200 year old message in a bottle from an archaeologist, using DNA to inspire a garden design, translating plant language, the oldest fish in captivity (since 1938). Plus an Alaskan island using peanut butter and black lights to find a rat that might not exist. That sounds fun.
How To Use Your Glasses To Easily Start A Campfire
https://www.outdoorguide.com/1693956/how-use-glasses-start-campfire/
200-Year-Old Message In A Bottle From An Archaeologist Found At The Remains Of An Historic Village In Northern France
https://allthatsinteresting.com/dieppe-france-19th-century-archaeologists-note
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yj7kg3zd1o
Extraordinary DNA-inspired twisting tower forms a lush vertical garden
https://newatlas.com/architecture/tao-zhu-yin-yuan-vincent-callebaut/
Scientists may soon be able to translate the languages plants use to communicate
Why an Alaska island is using peanut butter and black lights to find a rat that might not exist
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alaska-island-trying-find-rat-might-not-exist-rcna172176
Meet The World’s Oldest Captive Fish—Alive Since 1938 At This Aquarium
How did they get my data? I uncovered the hidden web of networks behind telemarketers
Next Week
The next Wednesday email has fun STEM stories about Meg Lowman who studies treetop canopy ecology (there’s canopy catwalks you can visit), how AI can bias business decisions, efforts to find and recover slave ships used to transport Africans to the Americas, and why widening roads causes traffic jams. Plus the BBC has a video of a flying car, which raises a few interesting questions. It’s also $300,000 US dollars. The Wednesday emails also have a new STEM Bits & Bytes section that makes for a faster read that’s also got the usual detailed links I’ve researched.