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Episode 741: Fact, Fiction, and the Final Frontier

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  • QOTW: What is a movie where the main character just can’t get anything right?
  • Postcard from Jorge in Oslo
    • On This Day In History for April 24, 2024

    This is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 251 days remaining in 2024.

    • It was on this date in 1704, that The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, was published.
    • On April 24, 1800, The United States Library of Congress was established when President John Adams signed legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase “such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress”.
    • Also on April 24, 1885, American sharpshooter Annie Oakley was hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.
    • It was 129 years ago today that Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, set sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop “Spray”.
    • April 24, 1914, The Franck-Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, was presented to the German Physical Society.
    • Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launched a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organize a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance on this date in 1916.
    • It was on this date in 1967, that Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov died in Soyuz 1 when its parachute failed to open. He was the first human to die during a space mission.
    • It was also this date in 1990 that the Hubble Space Telescope was launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-31.
    • It was 13 years ago today that WikiLeaks started  publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak.

      • Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

      • English clergyman and engineer, invented the power loom, Edmund Cartwright, born on this date in 1743.
      • Gideon Sundback, the Swedish-American engineer and businessman, developed the zipper was born 144 years ago today.
      • Born April 24, 1899, Russian-American mathematician and academic Oscar Zariski.
      • David Blackwell, the American mathematician and academic was born 105 years ago today.
      • Born April 24, 1930, American actor, director, and producer Richard Donner.
      • Australian-English guitarist and composer, John Williams is 83 today.
      • Also turning 82 today is American singer, actress, activist, and producer Barbra Streisand.
      • American actor, Jack Quaid, born on this date in 1992.

        • Listener Birthdays

        • 26 – Stewe Lundin – Sweden
        • 26 – Frank Lopez
        • 29 – Shepherd Thom from outside of the known universe
        • 29 – Timothy Karre
        • 29 – Dhruv Gupta
        • 30 – Julio Diaz (JulioTijuana)

          • And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for April 24, 2024

          • If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the Birthday Calendar link.
            • News
            • NASA’s Juno probe captures amazing views of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io (video) | Space
            • Farewell to Boston Dynamics’ Atlas Robot: Hilarious Bloopers and Triumphs Reel
              • Hello, Electric Atlas – IEEE Spectrum
              • A chunk of metal that tore through a Florida home definitely came from the ISS | Ars Technica
              • Computer scientist wins Turing Award for seminal work on randomness | Ars Technica
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                • Journalists kept ruining Spock’s death in ST II – Collecting Trek
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                  Media Corner
                  • Seth MacFarlane & Martin Scorsese Team to Restore Vintage Animated Movies
                    • Pass me the remote
                    • Chuck
                      • Amadeus (Director’s cut) – Netflix
                      • American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders – Netflix
                      • Kreg
                        • Conan O’Brien Must Go – Max
                          • Geek Library
                          • The Mysteries Of North America’s Great Lakes | Naked Science | Spark
                          • California’s Dangerous Capitola Village Situation
                          • Design & 3D-Print Your Own 8-bit Gaming Figures
                          • Data & Picard
                          • (1938) The Birth of SQL & the Relational Database – YouTube
                            • Question of the week
                            • If you could shrink yourself to the size of an ant, what scientific phenomena would you want to explore?
                              • Patreon Topic this week
                              • Upgrading hotel locks
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