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Episode 780: The Quark Side of the Moon

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  • QOTW: If a robot were to take over your job, what’s the one part of the job it would absolutely get wrong?
    • On This Day In History for September 10, 2025

    This is the 253rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 112 days remaining in 2025.

    • It was on this date in 1846, that Elias Howe was granted a patent for the sewing machine.
    • Also today in 1858, George Mary Searle discovered the asteroid 55 Pandora.
    • It was on this date in 1932, that The New York City Subway’s third competing subway system, the municipally owned IND, was opened.
    • Also on September 10, 1977, Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
    • On September 10, 2001, During his appearance on the British TV game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, contestant Charles Ingram reached the £1 million top prize, but it was later revealed that he had cheated to the top prize by listening to coughs from his wife and another contestant.
    • September 10, 2008, The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, was powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

      • Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

      • English-Australian candy maker, created the Violet Crumble, Abel Hoadley, born on this date in 1844.
      • Born September 10, 1871, English engineer Charles Collett.
      • Arthur Compton, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1892.
      • American businessman, founded Scientific Atlanta, Glen P. Robinson, born on this date in 1923.
      • Born September 10, 1933, Russian colonel and cosmonaut Yevgeny Khrunov.
      • American science fiction author, Pat Cadigan is 72 today.
      • Also born on that same date in 1958,  American director, producer, and screenwriter, Chris Columbus.
      • Chinese businessman, co-founder of Alibaba Group, Jack Ma is 61 today.

        • Listener Birthdays

        • 10 – Anthony Warnack (EastBayAnt) [1979]
        • 14 – Andrew Peters (Perl Hacker from the UK)
        • 14 – Callen Wesche

          • And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for September 10, 2025

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