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welcome to the good news ride home for Monday, July 27th, 2020.

I'm Jackson Bird.

A look at a promising handheld robotic mobility aid for vision-impaired people.

How people kept cool or, like, you know, stayed alive during heat waves before air conditioning as well as the year that the world skipped summer,

how Animal Crossing helped return a lost Nintendo switch to its owner,

and the latest way that sports leagues are filling their empty stadiums.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

The heat of summer is well and truly here in the Northern Hemisphere. The hot, humid days just

won't let up. And living in New York City, I continue to be frustrated that central air conditioning

is not as

ubiquitous in homes and businesses as it is in most parts of the southern United States where I grew up.

And of course, it's always been substantially hotter in those southern states, although with

climate change, the Northeast is heating up more and more. But it does make me think sometimes,

how the heck did people survive before

air conditioning? Especially in those very hot climates. Farmers Almanac offers a few insights,

nothing too mind-blowing. People would take day trips to swimming holes or up mountains to cooler

weather. They kept windows and doors shut at midday to keep out hot air and delayed

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