Technorama Ep 527 : We’re Back Baby




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Summary:  <br> Coming up in this episode…<br> <br> * Steve Jobs<br> * Ancient Die<br> * Did we mention we are back?<br> <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1mD">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> Video is in 2 parts….sorry.<br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> * If you were dropped off in 1870, what job would you be qualified to do?<br> <br> * <a href="http://www.evernote.com/l/AB_S24X5w-pEOqEmafAr9pyCq-XIWJOwfx8/">Email from Kyle</a><br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for March 21, 2018<br> This is the 80th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 285 days remaining in 2018.<br> <br> * It was on this date in 1871, that Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.<br> * Also today in 1925, The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.<br> * It was 90 years ago today, that Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo transAtlantic flight.<br> * It was also this date in 1963 that Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (in California) closes.<br> * NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes on this date in 1965.<br> * 53 years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.<br> * Also today in 1970, The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco.<br> * Also on March 21, 1994, The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force.<br> * Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon on this date in 1999.<br> * It was 12 years ago today, that The social media site Twitter is founded.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> * American inventor, Mary Dixon Kies, born on this date in 1752.<br> * Joseph Fourier, the French mathematician and physicist was born 250 years ago today.<br> * Born March 21, 1839, Russian pianist and composer Modest Mussorgsky.<br> * American astronomer and astrophysicist, Antonia Maury, born on this date in 1866.<br> * George David Birkhoff, the American mathematician was born 134 years ago today.<br> * Jewish-Austrian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher from the Vienna Circle, Friedrich Waismann was born 122 years ago today.<br> * Forrest Mars, Sr., American candy maker, created M&amp;M’s and Mars bar was born on that same date in 1904.<br> * American businessman, co-founded E &amp; J Gallo Winery, Julio Gallo, born on this date in 1910.<br> * Born March 21, 1911, African-American scientist and inventor Walter Lincoln Hawkins.<br> * Russ Meyer, American director, producer, and screenwriter was born on that same date in 1922.<br> * Born March 21, 1927, American-German astronomer and critic Halton Arp.<br> * American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, Walter Gilbert is 86 today.<br> * Also turning 72 today is Welsh-English actor Timothy Dalton.<br> * American singer-songwriter and guitarist, Eddie Money, born on this date in 1949.<br> * Also turning 65 today is English computer scientist and academic Steve Furber.<br> * Also born on that same date in 1962,  American actor, Matthew Broderick.<br> * American actress, producer, and talk show host, Rosie O’Donnell is 56 today.<br> <br> Listener Birthdays<br> <br> * 21 – “Krazy Joe” Fiore, <a href="http://www.megapodtastic.com/">MegaPodtastic</a><br> * 23 – Steve Riekeberg a.k.a. MissingIntellect of <a href="http://www.geekcred.net/">Geek Cred</a><br> * 23 – Richard Parkman<br> * 25 – Nicholas St Gabriel<br> * 26 – Chuck Tomasi<br> * 26 – Brina Baird in Hampton, VA<br>