July 27, 2020
Mon. 07/27 - The Year Without a Summer
How people kept cool, or like, stayed alive during heat waves before air conditioning, as well as the year the world skipped summer. How Animal Crossing helped return a lost Nintendo Switch to its owner. A promising handheld robotic mobility aid for vision-impaired people. And how the NBA is filing their stands without breaking their quarantine bubble.
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Links:
- What Did People Do Before Air Conditioning? (Farmers’ Almanac)
- 1816: The Year Without a Summer (Farmers’ Almanac)
- The Climate Event That Helped Create 'Frankenstein' and the Bicycle (The Paris Review)
- Taiwan police use Animal Crossing to return lost Nintendo Switch (BBC)
- Mobility device for the blind works like a handheld robotic guide dog (New Atlas)
- "How I, as someone who is visually impaired use my iPhone" (Kristy Viers, Twitter)
- CRIP CAMP: A DISABILITY REVOLUTION | Official Trailer (Netflix, YouTube)
- NBA Will Use Microsoft Teams to Project Fans Into Game Arenas (Gizmodo)
