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Australian High School Teacher Holds Class By Videochat While In Coronavirus Quarantine
A high school maths teacher in Australia who recently visited China has found a novel way to keep his students engaged while he sits in self-imposed quarantine over concerns that he visited a country with high concentrations of the new coronavirus. He’s conducting his class through videochat while sitting 8 kilometres away in his own…
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Movies, Music, And Books That Enter The Public Domain Today
Today isn’t just a day to nurse your hangover from New Year’s Eve—it’s also a day to celebrate the public domain. Movies, books, music, and more from 1924 are all entering the public domain today, meaning that you’re free to download, upload, and share these titles however you see fit. And it’s completely legal.
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Bullets That Killed JFK To Be Released As 3D Scans
Have you been hankering to see the bullets that killed U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on that fateful day in 1963? Researchers sometimes ask the U.S. National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) if they can see the bullets, but the American government doesn’t like to give people access given their fragility. That’s going…
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That Time Animators Brought A Guillotine To The Disney Labour Strike In 1941
Today, we often think of labour strikes as fairly mundane affairs. But there was a time when labour actions were much more intense. Like in 1941, when animators supporting the strike at Disney’s studio in Burbank, California brought a guillotine to show just how upset they were with Disney management over low wages at the…