Episode 684: DragonCon Here We Come

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On This Day in History for August 31, 2022

This is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 122 days remaining in 2022.

• It was on this date in 1895, that German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patented his navigable balloon
• That same date in 1936, Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, went on the air
• 25 years ago today, Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul died in a car crash in Paris

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

• French physicist and instrument maker, Guillaume Amontons, born on this date in 1663.
• Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist was born on that same date in 1821.
• Born August 31, 1905, American physicist and academic Robert Bacher.
• English physicist and astronomer, Bernard Lovell was born 109 years ago today.
• American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Hugh David Politzer, born on this date in 1949.
• Also turning 69 today is Russian astronaut and engineer Pavel Vinogradov.

Listener Birthdays

• Aug 31 – Tim Downing
• Sep 1 – David Kloempken
• Sep 2 – Scott Tyler
• Sep 5 – Ben Vaughan (benvon) [1977]
• Sep 6 – Susan Murph (SusietheGeek) How to Grow Your Geek Podcast
• Sep 6 – Brad Miller

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for August 31, 2022

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News

• The Bionic-Hand Arms Race
• NASA Recorded The Sound From a Black Hole, and It’s Super Eerie
• Nichelle Nichols’ Ashes Headed To Space, Joining Star Trek Legends On “Enterprise” Memorial Launch – TrekMovie.com

Hacks & Strange Stories

• Janet Jackson song from 1989 declared a cybersecurity vulnerability for crashing hard drives
  • Tech Stuff Podcast: Janet Jackson and Nicola Tesla (Aug 24)
• Paper-thin retro Macintosh comes with an e-ink display and runs on a Raspberry Pi

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