{"id":4527,"date":"2015-06-03T04:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=4527"},"modified":"2020-05-18T13:25:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T18:25:14","slug":"technorama-ep-437-solve-for-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2015\/06\/03\/technorama-ep-437-solve-for-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Technorama Ep 437 : Solve for X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><\/b>Coming up in this episode&#8230;<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4529\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2015\/06\/03\/technorama-ep-437-solve-for-x\/keep-calm-and-solve-for-x-14\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2015\/06\/keep-calm-and-solve-for-x-14.png?fit=600%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,700\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"keep-calm-and-solve-for-x-14\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2015\/06\/keep-calm-and-solve-for-x-14.png?fit=600%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4529\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2015\/06\/keep-calm-and-solve-for-x-14.png?resize=257%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"keep-calm-and-solve-for-x-14\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2015\/06\/keep-calm-and-solve-for-x-14.png?resize=257%2C300&amp;ssl=1 257w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2015\/06\/keep-calm-and-solve-for-x-14.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lead balloon<\/li>\n<li>Wax Woz<\/li>\n<li>Another use for Viagra<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Listen below with the audio player or <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-1b1\">Click Here<\/a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<\/i><\/b><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zskaakFkY8o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>On This Day In History for June 3, 2015<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 211 days remaining in 2015.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was on this date in 1539 that Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.<\/li>\n<li>June 3, 1621, The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland.<\/li>\n<li>That same date in 1888, The poem &#8220;Casey at the Bat&#8221;, by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.<\/li>\n<li>The transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway is completed on this date in 1889.<\/li>\n<li>Also today in 1889, The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.<\/li>\n<li>The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk on this date in 1965.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scottish-English mathematician and astronomer David Gregory born on this date in 1659<\/li>\n<li>Also born on this date in 1864 \u00a0Ransom E. Olds, the American businessman who founded Oldsmobile and REO Motor Car Company.<\/li>\n<li>Adelaide Ames, American astronomer was born June 3, 1900.<\/li>\n<li>This is also the 86th birthday of Chuck Barris, American game show host and producer who created The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game<\/li>\n<li>American computer scientist and engineer David L. Mills turns 77 today.<\/li>\n<li>Susan Landau the American mathematician and engineer is 61.<\/li>\n<li>and finally, American lawyer, academic, and author, founded the Creative Commons Lawrence Lessig is 54.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that\u2019s the way it was, on this day in history for June 3, 2015<\/p>\n<p><b>News<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/05\/17\/3d-printed-sea-turtle-beak\/?ncid=rss_truncated\">Wounded sea turtle gets 3D printed beak<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Listener Birthday Calendar<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>04 &#8211; Leo Schrauwen &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/ekeren.skynetblogs.be\/\">history and pictures from Ekeren<\/a> (Antwerp, Belgium) in Dutch<\/li>\n<li>04- Tara Parkman (daughter of Richard Parkman)<\/li>\n<li>06 &#8211; Adam Larson (UncleAdam)<\/li>\n<li>06 &#8211; Grandma Grace (1921)<\/li>\n<li>08 &#8211; Bobby Irvin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/technorama.wikifoundry.com\/\">Wiki<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><\/b><b>Hacks &amp; Strange Stories<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/great-now-even-cacti-can-spy-on-us-1703344175\">Be aware of camera cacti<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/geekologie.com\/2015\/05\/death-wishes-guy-builds-jet-engine-power.php\">Jet powered go-cart<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geeksaresexy.net\/2015\/05\/20\/lead-balloon-follows-chocolate-teapot-into-reality\/\">The lead balloon becomes a reality<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Shout out to the chat room<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you\u2019ll see the announcement when we join the hangout.<\/p>\n<p><b>Remember When<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/how-we-learned-chlorine-gas-is-not-an-effective-cold-re-1703270393\">How we learned chlorine gas wasn\u2019t an effective cold remedy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Media Corner<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/scotland-yard-worried-that-star-trek-would-cause-a-doom-1705721241\">Scotland Yard feared Star Trek cause a doomsday cult<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Chuck calls \u201cshenanigans\u201d on GoTG<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Geek Library<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/wax-woz-steve-wozniak-will-be-the-next-wax-statue-at-m-1707250741\">Wax Woz<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Question of the week: What tech terms need to die?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>End of Show Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Sorry, no show next week (June 10), Chuck is away on business &#8211; again!<\/p>\n<p>We appreciate your support. 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