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Wed. 04/07 - The 1970s Clubhouse Precursor


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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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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) 
  • Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab Finds Hint of New Particles (Quanta Magazine)
  • Fermilab’s latest muon measurements hint at cracks in the Standard Model (Ars Technica)
  • Finding From Particle Research Could Break Known Laws of Physics (NY Times)
  • The long-lost Lord of the Rings adaptation from Soviet Russia is a glorious fever dream (The Verge)
  • Soviet TV version of Lord of the Rings rediscovered after 30 years (The Guardian)
  • The Emoji Story: You should never have this much fun learning about Unicode (Ars Technica)
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