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Bethany G. Anderson (Natural and Applied Sciences Archivist) will discuss the history of the evocative and paradoxical symbol of the Ouroboros, a snake eating its own tail. Originating in ancient Egyptian iconography, it was reconfigured by scientists and engineers at the U of I’s Biological Computer Lab as a scientific visualization to represent cybernetic ideas. For more information: https://go.illinois.edu/Ouroboros_Cybernetics.
