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Letter: Hedy stuff

Published 4 January 2012

From Steve Hibbert

So Hedy Lamarr invented spread spectrum frequency-hopping radio systems (3 December, p 54). Perhaps you could try to find out if any latter-day screen sirens are working on cutting-edge inventions. Would Scarlett Johansson be trying to work out how neutrinos travel faster than photons, or is Angelina Jolie working on the hard problem of consciousness? It is in the public interest that we be told.

London, UK

Issue no. 2846 published 7 January 2012

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