Summary: Coming up in this episode…<br> <br> * Printers<br> * Stars and Planets<br> * Snowflake<br> <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1lC">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> * Avner loves “Gandalf the Fuscia”<br> <br> On This Day In History for November 22, 2017<br> This is the 326th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 39 days remaining in 2017.<br> <br> * It was on this date in 1928, that the premier performance of Ravel’s Boléro takes place in Paris.<br> * Also on November 22, 1935, the China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila.<br> * November 22, 1954, the Humane Society of the United States is founded.<br> * It was 54 years ago today, that U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald.<br> * Also today in 1968, The Beatles release The Beatles (known popularly as The White Album).<br> * 40 years ago today, British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.<br> * Also on November 22, 1987, Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.<br> * It was 29 years ago today, in Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.<br> * 22 years ago today, Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> * English ornithologist and ichthyologist, Francis Willughby, born on this date in 1635.<br> * René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French-American explorer was born on that same date in 1643.<br> * English businessman, founder of the Thomas Cook Group, Thomas Cook was born 209 years ago today.<br> * Born November 22, 1897, German astronomer and educator Paul Oswald Ahnert.<br> * French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Louis Néel, born on this date in 1904.<br> * Mikhail Mil, the Russian engineer, founded the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant was born 108 years ago today.<br> * American colonel, pilot, and astronaut, Guion Bluford is 75 today.<br> * American computer scientist, engineer, and academic, Elaine Weyuker, born on this date in 1945.<br> * Also turning 67 today is American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor Steven Van Zandt.<br> * American actress, Jamie Lee Curtis, born on this date in 1958.<br> * American computer programmer and author, Randal L. Schwartz is 56 today.<br> * Also born on that same date in 1961, American actress, Mariel Hemingway.<br> * American actor and activist, Mark Ruffalo, born on this date in 1967.<br> * Also turning 44 today is American astronomer and scholar Chad Trujillo.<br> * Also born on that same date in 1980, American computer programmer and businessman, founded Napster, Shawn Fanning.<br> * American actress, Scarlett Johansson, born on this date in 1984.<br> <br> Listener Birthdays<br> November<br> <br> * 22 – <a href="http://wunderphul.blogspot.com/">Tom Posz</a> – (from California, USA)<br> * 25 – <a href="http://www.missingalert.com/">Lane Williams</a><br> * 26 – Joanie<br> * 27 – <a href="http://www.wholelotofnonsense.org/">Brad P. from NJ</a><br> * 28 – <a href="http://thesweetsers.blogspot.com/">Ben Sweetser</a><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 November 22, 2017<br> News<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/03/the-iss-is-getting-a-long-long-overdue-printer-upgrade/">The ISS is getting a long, long overdue printer upgrade</a><br>
