1.39.2 🐞 Tech and Loneliness, Ancient Education, Plastic Eating Insects, Artists Shaping Technology

It’s Sunday and time for seven fun links to STEM/STEAM content. This week I have links about a plastic eating insect found in Kenya, what education looked like in ancient societies, the link between technology and loneliness (duh), mathematicians finding a new shape, and more. Enjoy!

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Mathematicians Discover a New Kind of Shape That’s All over Nature | Scientific American

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-discover-a-new-kind-of-shape-thats-all-over-nature

How Technology and Loneliness are Interlinked – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/10/technology/personaltech/technology-loneliness.html

How Artists Are Shaping Tech Today for a Better Tomorrow

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/sponsored-content/knight-foundation-6-how-artists-shaping-tech-today-better-tomorrow-1234721706/

How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-brain-creates-a-timeline-of-the-past-20190212/

Plastic-eating insect discovered in Kenya

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-plastic-insect-kenya.html

How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/how-a-stubborn-computer-scientist-accidentally-launched-the-deep-learning-boom/

What Education Looked Like for These 5 Ancient Societies

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/what-education-looked-like-for-these-5-ancient-societies

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