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Source: The New Yorker

6/29/2020

The Walkman, Forty Years On

This was a new form of human experience, engaged disengagement, a technological shield from the world and an antidote to ennui.

Source: Content Magazine

3/31/2020

The Trouble with Triscuits

by Charles Louis Richter

Where did the name of this popular snack come from? An exercise in historical reasoning.

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The Walkman, Forty Years On

The Trouble with Triscuits

by Charles Louis Richter