Wed. 04/07 - The 1970s Clubhouse Precursor
When social media happened over the phone. Have physicists found a new force of nature? And the long-lost Lord of the Rings made-for-TV-movie produced by Soviet Russia.
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Links:
The Prototype for Clubhouse Is 40 Years Old, and It Was Built by Phone Hackers (OneZero)
Remote learning isn't new: Radio instruction in the 1937 polio epidemic (The Conversation)
What Did the Old Telephone Network Sound Like? Overview of the Recordings (Evan Doorbell, YouTube)
'Strong' evidence found for a new force of nature (BBC)…
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