Technorama Ep 528: You are the solar winds beneath my wings




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Summary: Coming up in this episode…<br> <br> Ice Aircraft Carrier<br> Mr Rogers<br> Your Data<br> <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1mH">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> What’s your first memory?<br> <br> On This Day In History for March 28, 2018<br> This is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 278 days remaining in 2018.<br> <br> It was on this date in 1776, that Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.<br> March 28, 1802, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered.<br> It was 108 years ago today, that Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.<br> On March 28, 1933, The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board.<br> Also on March 28, 1979, A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island’s Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.<br> It was 28 years ago today, that United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> Italian painter and architect, Raphael, born on this date in 1483.<br> Henry Schoolcraft, the American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist was born 225 years ago today.<br> Joseph Bazalgette, English architect and engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge and Battersea Bridge was born on that same date in 1819.<br> Born March 28, 1836, German-American brewer, founded the Pabst Brewing Company Frederick Pabst.<br> Ángela Ruiz Robles, Spanish teacher, writer and inventor, pioneer of the electronic book was born on that same date in 1895.<br> Born March 28, 1899, American businessman Gussie Busch.<br> Harold Agnew, the American physicist and academic was born 97 years ago today.<br> Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and engineer was born on that same date in 1923.<br> German-French mathematician and theorist, Alexander Grothendieck was born 90 years ago today.<br> American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Jerome Isaac Friedman, born on this date in 1930.<br> Dutch physicist and astronaut, Wubbo Ockels was born 72 years ago today.<br> Also born on that same date in 1986, American singer-songwriter, dancer, producer, and actress, Lady Gaga.<br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for March 28, 2018<br> <br> If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our <a href="http://technorama.wikifoundry.com/">Wiki</a>.<br> <br> Hacks &amp; Strange Stories<br> <br> <a href="https://sploid.gizmodo.com/t-rex-catches-fire-at-amusement-park-despite-the-fact-t-1824018032">T-Rex Catches Fire at Amusement Park Despite the Fact That Real Dinosaurs Were Rarely on Fire</a><br> <a href="http://geekologie.com/2018/03/pastry-chef-spends-three-days-trying-to.php">Pastry Chef Spends Three Days Trying To Make A Gourmet Version Of Cheetos – Geekologie</a><br> <br> Shout out to the chat room<br> What us live every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET on Facebook. Go to Join our page and get notified automatically. Join us on the live chat!<br> Remember When<br> <br> <a href="https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/03/23/2231215/britains-plan-to-build-a-2000-foot-aircraft-carrier-almost-entirely-from-ice?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Britain’s Plan To Build a 2,000 Foot Aircraft Carrier Almost Entirely From Ice – Slashdot</a><br> <a href="https://io9.gizmodo.com/all-856-episodes-of-mr-rogers-neighborhood-return-to-t-1823887997">All 856 Episodes of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood Return to Twitch for the Show̵...</a>