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.Sponsor:Mint Mobile, Get a new wireless plan for just $15 a month mintmobile.com/kottkeLinks: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)Kottke.OrgJackson Bird on TwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.