Coming up in this episode…
- Put away that cell phone on the plane or face the wrath
- What happens when you play real-life frogger?
- What do polar bears do with tech?
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On This Day In History
This is January 5, 2011,
- It was on this date in 1896 that an Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen has discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
- Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay on this date in 1933
- January 5, 1940 marks the first time that FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission.
- That same date four years later, The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
- On this date in 1972 – U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
- Just six years ago, – Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
Happy Birthday goes out to:
- American explorer, Zebulon Pike, born on this date in 1778
- English explorer, William John Wills, born today in 1834
- Also born today in 1838 is French Mathematician Camille Jordan
- American inventor King Camp Gillette was born today in 1855
- 1865 marks the birthday of Julio Garavito Armero, the Colombian astronomer
- American mathematician Stephen Kleene was born on this date in 1909
- The original TV Superman, George Reeves was born on this date in 1914
- and everyone in the Ershov family is celebrating their famous Russian mathematician relative’s birthday. Yuri Ershov turns 70 today.
- And that’s the way it was, for January 5, 2011
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What the Chuck!
- Saw this on FMyLife.com (Thanks Chad) – Today, I found out that my father insisted I be named Luke so he could say, “Luke, I am your father” whenever I question his authority. FML
What the Kreg!
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