Episode 595: Cinco

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• What no longer exists, but should?
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On This Day In History for April 8, 2020

This is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 267 days remaining in 2020.

• It was on this date in 1820, that The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
• 114 years ago today, Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, died.
• That same date in 1908, Harvard University voted to establish the Harvard Business School.
• Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered superconductivity on this date in 1911.
• That same date in 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.
• It was also this date in 1964 that The Gemini 1 test flight was conducted.
• It was 12 years ago today, that The construction of the world’s first skyscraper to integrate wind turbines was completed in Bahrain.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

• 9th Baron de Clifford, English noble, John Clifford, born on this date in 1435.
• David Rittenhouse, the American astronomer and mathematician was born 288 years ago today.
• August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist and academic was born on that same date in 1818.
• Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded United Artists, Mary Pickford, born on this date in 1892.
• Born April 8, 1911, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Melvin Calvin.
• Croatian physicist, philosopher and writer, Ivan Supek was born 105 years ago today.
• Winifred Asprey, American mathematician and computer scientist was born on that same date in 1917.
• Russian-Estonian astronomer, Grigori Kuzmin was born 103 years ago today.
• Also turning 82 today is American mathematician, statistician, and lawyer Mary W. Gray.
• American director, producer, and special effects artist, Douglas Trumbull is 78 today.
• Also born on that same date in 1966,  American actress, director, producer, Robin Wright.
• American computer programmer and engineer, Mark Spencer is 43 today.
• Also turning 40 today is American actress Katee Sackhoff.

Listener Birthdays (April 8, 15)

• 14 – Danny Harnish

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for April 8, 2020

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News

• Texas Cinema’s ‘Drive-In’ Is A Blockbuster Opening Weekend Hit
• Meet the Xenobots, Virtual Creatures Brought to Life – The New York Times
• The coronavirus pandemic is making Earth shake less – CNN
• NASA tests giant 21-foot mirror on James Webb telescope for the first time in simulated zero-gravity | Daily Mail Online

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Remember When

• NASA brings back its iconic “worm” logo to mark return of human spaceflight | Ars Technica

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Geek Library

• Six Must-Read Books that Will Make You Much, Much Smarter

Question of the week:

• You wake up, it’s 2050, what do you google first?

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