Episode 777: “Ohm” My Goodness, It’s Science!

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• QOTW: If your smart home could suddenly talk back, what’s the first sassy comment it would make about your daily habits?

On This Day In History for July 23, 2025

This is the 204th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 161 days remaining in 2025.

• It was on this date in 1829, that In the United States, William Austin Burt patented the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
• Also today in 1903, The Ford Motor Company sold its first car.
• Also on July 23, 1926, Fox Film bought the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
• The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company went on the air in Bombay on this date in 1927.
• 63 years ago today, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. 
• Also today in 1962, Telstar relayed the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
• On July 23, 1972, The United States launched Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
• It was on this date in 1995, that Comet Hale-Bopp was discovered; it became visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
• It was 28 years ago today that Digital Equipment Corporation filed antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
• 26 years ago today, Space Shuttle Columbia launched on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory..
• Also on July 23, 2015, NASA announced discovery of Kepler-452b by the Kepler space telescope.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

• French physicist and mathematician, Étienne-Louis Malus, born on this date in 1775.
• Swiss-German physicist and engineer, Walter H. Schottky was born 139 years ago today.
• Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Vladimir Prelog, born on this date in 1906.
• Vera Rubin, American astronomer and academic was born on that same date in 1928.
• American actor and activist, Woody Harrelson is 64 today.
• Also turning 36 today is English actor Daniel Radcliffe.

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And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for July 23, 2025

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News

• The Sculpting Robots Quietly Used by Big-Name Artists
• A strange fossil at the edge of the solar system just shook up Planet Nine theories | ScienceDaily
• The Large Hadron Collider Discovers Antimatter Behaving Oddly in New Class of Particles | Scientific American
• 23andMe’s Data Sold to Nonprofit Run by Its Co-Founder – ‘And I Still Don’t Trust It’ – Slashdot

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Remember When

• We saw the heart of Pluto 10 years ago—it’ll be a long wait to see the rest – Ars Technica

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• You’ve just been hired to design the worst possible “smart” kitchen gadget. What is it?

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