Technorama Ep 433 : Honestly, I didn’t touch it!

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In honor of PI Day;

do the math — if you put a string around the circumference of a basketball, then the length of that string is the famous 2*PI*R formula from your early math class.

But “elevate” the string 1 centimeter above the surface of the basketball, that string is exactly 6.2831853… cm longer.

Do the same thing around the earth, that string will be considerably longer, but elevate the string 1 cm above the earth’s surface and it will be exactly 6.2831853… cm longer — no further a difference than the basketball.

Blows your mind.

On This Day In History for April 8, 2015

This is the 98th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 267 days remaining in 2015.

It was on this date in 1904 that Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
That same date in 1908, Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered superconductivity 104 years ago today.
Also today in 1946, Électricité de France, the world’s largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors.
April 8, 1959, a team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
Also today in 1964, an unmanned test flight of Gemini 1 is launched.
The construction of the world’s first building to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain 7 years ago today.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

Astronomer and mathematician, David Rittenhouse, born on this date in 1732.
Also born on this date in 1859, Edmund Husserl, the Austrian mathematician and philosopher.
American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate Melvin Calvin was born today in 1911.
April 8, 1917 is also the birthday of mathematician and computer scientist Winifred Asprey.
Estonian astronomer Grigori Kuzmin would have been 98 today.
Actor Stuart Pankin from “Not Necessarily the News” and many other fine roles turns 69 today.
The woman who plays Princess Buttercup from “The Princess Bride” and Claire Underwood from “House of Cards”, actress Robin Wright is an awesome 49 today.
and finally computer programmer Mark Spencer is 38.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for April 8, 2015

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