🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-04-02
This week's email highlights fascinating safe-for-work links from various Slack communities!
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Each Wednesday I go through dozens of Slack communities.
I then select the most interesting shared links.
This will always be a safe for work list. 🙈
The Electric Eraser: A Surprisingly Useful Tool - IEEE Spectrum
Fascinated by the early 20th-century zeal for electrifying everyday items, I delved into the history of the electric eraser. Why electrify the humble eraser? It turns out, manual erasing was clumsy and time-consuming. From Joseph Priestley's discovery of rubber's erasing properties to the invention of electric erasers, this journey reveals the creativity and innovation behind a seemingly simple tool. Have we lost something in the digital age where we delete instead of erase? #History #Innovation...
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