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)