Reality Checks: The Inventor of Anesthesia, Ancient Greek Shipwrecks, Access to Smartphones by Gender, and Robotic Teaching

Elizabeth — October 25, 2018

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Seishu Hanaoka, who developed anesthesia. (via Al Jazeera)
Oldest intact shipwreck ever found in the Black Sea. (via Ars Technica)
Unequal access to smartphones. (via NPR)
Robots teaching college courses. (via Axios)

Featured image credit: NOAA photo library via flickr

Elizabeth

Elizabeth is a professional belly dancer, a flaky computer scientist, and a returned Peace Corps volunteer. She lives in Georgia (the state of the U.S., not the country) but is nonetheless somehow not a combination of stereotypes from Gone with the Wind and Deliverance. Her personal blog is Coffeefied. Operafied. Fluffified. Beglittered.

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Reality Checks: The Inventor of Anesthesia, Ancient Greek Shipwrecks, Access to Smartphones by Gender, and Robotic Teaching

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