Summary: Coming up in this episode…<br> <br> * Italian students turn trash to cash<br> * Possible use for Chernobyl<br> * A new card game from an old computer game<br> <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="http://wp.me/pe53l-1gL">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> * VM: Jack Jaffe – Gear VR<br> <br> On This Day In History for August 3, 2016<br><br> This is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 150 days remaining in 2016.<br> <br> * It was on this date in 1492 that Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.<br> * That same date in 1527, The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John’s, Newfoundland.<br> * Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes on this date in 1678.<br> * Also today in 1852, Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event<br> * The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded 116 years ago today.<br> * Also today in 1936, Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.<br> * August 3, 1946, Santa Claus Land, the world’s first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.<br> * Also today in 1958, The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.<br> * It was 39 years ago today that The United States Senate begins its hearing on Project MKUltra.<br> * 39 years ago today, Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world’s first mass-produced personal computers.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> * American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company, Elisha Otis, born on this date in 1811<br> * Also born on that same date in 1900, John T. Scopes, American educator<br> * Born August 3, 1918 – Sidney Gottlieb the American chemist and theorist<br> * Author Leon Uris was born today in 1924<br> * Actor Tony Bennett turns 90 today<br> * Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and astronaut, Tony Bennett was born 1935<br> * Actor Martin Sheen is 76<br> * Martha Stewart is 75<br> * Actor, director, producer, and screenwriter John Landis is 66<br> * The actor who played Dennis the Menace in the 1950s TV show, Jay North is 65<br> * and the man who designed the games Super Smash Bros. and Kirby, Masahiro Sakurai is 46.<br> <br> From the listener birthday calendar<br> <br> * 03 – Johnee Bee<br> * 06 – Julie Tomasi<br> * 08 – Philippa Ballantine<br> * 09 – Matt Coe (WoWaddict) [1991]<br> * 09 – Julia Posz – (Technorama Promo)<br> <br> <br> * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our <a href="http://technorama.wikifoundry.com/">Wiki</a>.<br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for August 3, 2016<br> News<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/29/chernobyl-site-could-be-rebuilt-as-a-massive-solar-farm/">Chernobyl site</a><br> * <a href="http://gizmodo.com/this-incredible-collection-of-400-vintage-boomboxes-is-1784394052">Collection of 400 boomboxes for sale</a><br> <br> Hacks & Strange Stories<br> <br> * <a href="http://www.odditycentral.com/news/italian-high-school-students-create-vending-machine-that-turns-plastic-trash-into-phone-cases.html">High school students turn trash into phone cases</a><br> <br> Shout out to the chat room<br> What us live every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Join our live chat at http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama/webcam<br> Remember When<br> <br> * <a href="http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/this-overhead-wire-electric-car-thing-a-ma-jig-was-way-1784293796">The overhead electric car from the 1800s</a><br>...
