Tom JacksonSTEM Heroes: Keeping Us Connected
Illustrator: Zhai, Rea
Tom Jackson has written more than 80 books and contributed to hundreds more. His specialties are natural history, technology and all things scientific. Tom spends his days finding fun ways of communicating facts, new and old, to all age groups and reading abilities. Tom lives in Bristol, England, with his wife and three children. He studied zoology at Bristol University and has had spells working at zoos. Tom has also worked as a conservationist, which saw him planting trees in Somerset, surveying Vietnamese jungle and rescuing wildlife from drought-ridden Zimbabwe. Writing has also taken him to the Galápagos Islands, Amazon rainforest, coral reefs of Indonesia and Sahara Desert. Nowadays, he can be found mainly in the attic.
1: Connection heroes!
2: The Internet
3: The World Wide Web
4: Telecommunications
5: Smartphones
6: Instant news
7: Using codes
8: Smart tech
9: City planning
10: Wildlife, connected
11: Space connections
12: Connecting to the brain
13: Become a STEM connection hero!
14: Extra connection fun & facts
15: Glossary
16: Further resources and Index
