Episode 619: Cyber Turkeys

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On This Day In History for November 25, 2020

This is the 330th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 36 days remaining in 2020.

• It was on this date in 1915, that Albert Einstein presented the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
• 36 years ago today, Thirty-six top musicians gathered in a Notting Hill studio and recorded Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

• French astronomer and botanist, Jean-François Séguier, born on this date in 1703.
• Julius Robert von Mayer, the German physician and physicist was born 206 years ago today.
• Ernst Schröder, German mathematician and academic was born on that same date in 1841.
• Also born on that same date in 1944,  American actor, television personality, game show host, lawyer, and author, Ben Stein.
• Also turning 73 today is American actor John Larroquette.
• Also born on that same date in 1960,  American singer-songwriter, Amy Grant.
• Born November 25, 1960, American lawyer, journalist, and publisher John F. Kennedy Jr.

Listener Birthdays

• 25 – Lane Williams
• 26 – Joanie
• 27 – Brad P. from NJ (but who was born in VA, and has moved back there…)
• 28 – Ben Sweetser
• 1 – Claudio Miranda (ClaudioM)

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November 25, 2020

• If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the Birthday Calendar link.

News

• Swiss city bans ‘noisy’ silent discos – BBC News
• Diamonds created at room temperature in minutes – CNN
• SpaceX Better Than Shuttle or Soyuz, Says Astronaut Who Flew All Three

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Geek Library

• Study Maps The Odd Structural Similarities Between The Human Brain And The Universe

Question of the week:

• What problem from the 1980s and 1990s no longer exists?

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