Do We Need To Dumb This Down?

Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: Maybe you don't need a smartphone, the nuclear bomb is the most important piece of technology ever created and there's one guy who's drawn all of those ski slope maps.​

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