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April 15Episode 803: Dial-Up to the Final Frontier
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On This Day In History for April 15, 2026
This is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 260 days remaining in 2026.
It was on this date in 1755, that Samuel Johnson’s “A Dictionary of the English Language” was published in London.
Also today in 1817, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf (then called the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons), the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
It was also this date in 1892 that The General Electric Company was formed.
It was 114 years ago today that The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,224 passengers and crew on board survive.
It was also this date in 1923 that Insulin became generally available for use by people with diabetes.
Also on April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball’s color line.
It was 74 years ago today that saw the First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
McDonald’s restaurant dated its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois on this date in 1955.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
Italian painter, sculptor, and architect, Leonardo da Vinci, born on this date in 1452.
Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician and astronomer was born on that same date in 1552.
Swiss mathematician and physicist, Leonhard Euler was born 319 years ago today.
Scottish physician and chemist, William Cullen, born on this date in 1710.
German astronomer and academic, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve was born 233 years ago today.
English captain and explorer, James Clark Ross, born on this date in 1800.
Hermann Grassmann, German linguist and mathematician was born on that same date in 1809.
Nikolay Semyonov, the Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate was born 130 years ago today.
Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and astronaut, Georgy Beregovoy, born on this date in 1921.
Also born on that same date in 1965, Japanese engineer and astronaut, Soichi Noguchi.
Listener Birthdays
16 – Donna Tomasi
18 – Skaifey (Anthony)
19 – Amanda (SusietheGeek’s daughter & Geek in Training)
21 – Kim and Kreg’s Anniversary
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for April 26, 2026
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News
Let’s talk about Artemus II for a bit
They’ve been on ‘Mars’ for six months. Here’s how it’s going
Astronomers discover a solar system 120 light-years away with two “Earths” and an arrangement so strange that it doesn’t fit any known formation model
Hacks & Strange Stories
Chemists make hydrogen from breadcrumbs in groundbreaking reaction that could replace some fossil fuels | Live Science
Cry til you laugh: Chris Pirillo vibe codes his job-search frustrations into brutally honest apps – GeekWire
A maverick hacker got Mac OS X running on a Wii
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The Fifth Element (Netflix)
Jobs (Netflix)
Dynasty: The Murdochs (Netflix)
You Only Live Twice
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (Netflix)
Diamonds Are Forever (Netflix)
Live And Let Die (Netflix)
The Man With The Golden Gun (Netflix)
The Spy Who Loved Me (Netflix)
Shooter (Paramount+)
Kreg
Malcome in the Middle Reunion/Reboot – Hulu
Who’s Live Anyway – Theater
Question of the week
You get to add ONE app to the ship’s computer on the Enterprise. What is it and why?
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Chuck: Project update – The Mac Mini replacement
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April 07Episode 802: Live Long and Defragment
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On This Day In History for April 8, 2026
This is the 98th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 267 days remaining in 2026.
It was on this date in 1820, that the Venus de Milo was discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
April 8, 1959, A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper met to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
That same date in 2002, The Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched on mission STS-110, carrying the S0 truss to the International Space Station. Astronaut Jerry L. Ross also became the first person to fly on seven spaceflights.
It was 21 years ago today that a solar eclipse occurred, visible over areas of the Pacific Ocean and Latin American countries such as Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela.
12 years ago today, Windows XP reached its standard End Of Life and is no longer supported.
April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse took place at the Moon’s ascending node, visible across North America.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
Italian physician and archaeologist, Michele Mercati, born on this date in 1541.
Born April 8, 1732, American astronomer and mathematician David Rittenhouse.
Edmund Husserl, the German Jewish-Austrian mathematician and philosopher was born 167 years ago today.
English mountaineer and explorer, Andrew Irvine, born on this date in 1902.
Melvin Calvin, the American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born 115 years ago today.
Ivan Supek, Croatian physicist, philosopher and writer was born on that same date in 1915.
Winifred Asprey, the American mathematician and computer scientist was born 109 years ago today.
Listener Birthdays
14 – Danny Harnish
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for April 8, 2026
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News
March 2026: The Goddard Centennial – Aerospace America
5 Things You May Have Missed During NASA’s Historic Launch of Artemis 2
Hacks & Strange Stories
NASA Astronaut Shares Image of Bizarre Tentacled Object Growing on ISS
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Unnoticed for 68 Million Years, Scientists Found One of the Largest Eggs Ever in Antarctica
Scientists Discover 120,000-Year-Old Human Footprints In Saudi Arabia : NPR
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Project Hail Mary x2 – Theater IMAX
Rooster – HBO
Crime 101 – Prime
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The Creator – Netflix
Scarpetta – Prime
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April 02Episode 801: Have You Tried Turning the Enterprise Off and On Again?
This week, we have special guest and friend of the show Jack Mangan!
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Lieutenant
Kyle NishiokaBen VaughanJohn NobleJohn CliffordDenise InglisSteve CodyTim CookSteve Webb
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Alexis DuranAmber ElstadAmy BowenBrad MillerBrian BrownChris McDanDMan CoyerDean JensenJorge SchrauwenKrazy JoeMike WillsLeonMSaturday Morning MediaStephen WescheSteve TherrienSylvain Racicot
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March 19Episode 800: 0.8 Kilopodcasts of Geekery
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On This Day In History for March 18, 2026
This is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 288 days remaining in 2026.
It was on this date in 1899, that Phoebe, a satellite of Saturn, became the first to be discovered with photographs, taken in August 1898, by William Henry Pickering.
It was also this date in 1965 that Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov left his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes and became the first person to walk in space.
That same date in 1980, A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 exploded during a fueling operation, killing 48 people.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
French mathematician and astronomer, Philippe de La Hire, born on this date in 1640.
Christian Goldbach, the Prussian-German mathematician and academic was born 336 years ago today.
Born March 18, 1844, Russian composer and academic Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
American architect and engineer, Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, born on this date in 1848.
Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel engine and was born on that same date in 1858.
Canadian mathematician Agnes Sime Baxter was born 156 years ago today.
Born March 18, 1905, American physicist and engineer Thomas Townsend Brown.
American businessman, co-founded the E & J Gallo Winery, Ernest Gallo, born on this date in 1909.
Born March 18, 1926, American actor and director Peter Graves.
Danish mathematician and statistician Ole Barndorff-Nielsen was born 91 years ago today.
Swedish physicist and astronaut, Christer Fuglesang is 69 today.
Listener Birthdays
18 – Gregory Lemon @ GregoryLemon.com
19 – JT Shea of The Gigcast and JT Ukes at 40
19 – Michael R. Mennenga
21 – Krazy Joe Fiore, MegaPodTasticand Honey, You’ve *GOT* to See This!
23 – Steve Riekeberg a.k.a. MissingIntellect of Geek Cred
23 – Richard Parkman
25 – Nicholas St Gabriel
26 – Chuck Tomasi
26 – Brina Baird
29 – Marc Blackburn
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for March 18, 2026
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News
Microsoft Azure CTO says Claude found vulns in Apple II code • The Register
NASA humanoid robot completes decade-long Edinburgh mission
Hacks & Strange Stories
More and more people are wrapping their door handles in aluminum foil — and the reason behind this odd habit is surprisingly practical – PSP News
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United’s President Predicted in 1976 the Airline Would Fly Supersonic Jets in 2026
33 Snapshots of Nostalgic Tech That Once Looked Like the Future (Because It Was) – Geek Universe – Geek | Fanart | Cosplay | Pokémon GO | Geek Memes | Funny pictures
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Alexis DuranAmber ElstadAmy BowenBrad MillerBrian BrownChris McDanDMan CoyerDean JensenJorge SchrauwenKrazy JoeMike WillsLeonMSaturday Morning MediaStephen WescheSteve TherrienSylvain Racicot
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Firefly – (Disney+)
Star Trek Voyager – (Paramount+)
Chuck
Peaky Blinders (Netflix)
Third Reich: Rise/Fall (D+/NatGeo)
From Russia With Love (Netflix)
Goldfinger (Netflix)
Mission Impossible: 1 (Paramount+)
Mission Impossible: 2 (Paramount+)
Star Wars: Ep 1, The Phantom Menace (Plex)
Geek Library
Australia’s Computing History – This Week In Retro 252 – YouTube
Question of the week
We’ve discussed enough sci-fi over 800 shows to fill a Borg Cube. If you had to spend the next 800 days living in the universe of the last sci-fi movie or book you consumed, how long would you last, and what obsolete 20th-century gadget would you bring along as your ‘secret weapon’?
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March 11Episode 799: The Warp Drive’s Check Engine Light Is On
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On This Day In History for March 11, 2026
This is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 295 days remaining in 2026.
It was on this date in 1702, that The Daily Courant, England’s first national daily newspaper, was published for the first time.
It was 18 years ago today that Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on STS-123, carrying the first component of the Japanese Kibō module to the International Space Station.
March 11, 2020, The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 virus epidemic a pandemic.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
French mathematician and astronomer, Urbain Le Verrier, born on this date in 1811.
Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic was born on that same date in 1822.
Louis Bachelier, the French mathematician and theorist was born 156 years ago today.
German chemist and academic, Robert Havemann, born on this date in 1910.
Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1920.
Australian-American businessman and media magnate, Rupert Murdoch is 95 today.
Also turning 76 today is American singer-songwriter, producer, and conductor Bobby McFerrin.
Scottish-American actor and singer, John Barrowman, born on this date in 1967.
Listener Birthdays
11 – Andy Helsby of Absoblogginlutely!
11 – Ken Kitzman a.k.a kitzken
13 – Johanna Gonzalez a.k.a. MightyJo
14 – Pi Day (3/14)
16 – Michelle Lopez a.k.a. CntrySigns
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for March 11, 2026
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News
Researchers Test Mars Soil on One of Earth’s Toughest Creatures, The Reaction Was Unexpected
Scientists Have Just Drilled 523 Meters Of Ice, Here’s What They Found Under Antarctica
Hacks & Strange Stories
YouTuber Designs Cooling System for 1.5 kW LED, Creates Small Artificial Sun
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Is cursive still taught in schools? More states are requiring it
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Kyle NishiokaBen VaughanJohn NobleJohn CliffordDenise InglisSteve CodyTim CookSteve Webb
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Alexis DuranAmber ElstadAmy BowenBrad MillerBrian BrownChris McDanDMan CoyerDean JensenJorge SchrauwenKrazy JoeMike WillsLeonMSaturday Morning MediaStephen WescheSteve TherrienSylvain Racicot
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Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials (Netflix)
The Singers (Netflix)
Death By Lightning (Netflix)
LBJ (Netflix)
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (Netflix)
Dinosaurs (Netflix)
Dr. No (Netflix)
Kreg
Doc Martin Season 3 – Pluto
Ted Season 2 – Peacock
Question of the week
What mundane, everyday task would you most like to solve with a “mad scientist” invention?
Patreon Topic this week
Chuck is getting “upgraded” again
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February 18Episode 798: Phasers on ‘Maybe’
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On This Day In History for February 18, 2026
This is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 323 days remaining in 2026.
It was on this date in 1584, that a naval expedition led by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa founded Nombre de Jesús, the first of two short-lived Spanish settlements in the Strait of Magellan.
Jesse Fell burned anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal. on this date in 1808.
Also today in 1826, University College London was founded as University of London.
BBC Television produced the world’s first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term “robot” on this date in 1938.
Also on February 11, 1963, The Beatles recorded their first album Please Please Me.
That same date in 1997, Space Shuttle Discovery was launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
It was on this date in 1999, that Pluto crossed Neptune’s orbit, ending a nearly 20 -year period when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to interact with Neptune’s orbit again until 2231.
That same date in 2000, Space Shuttle Endeavour was launched on STS-99 to conduct the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
It was on this date in 2001, that A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.
Also today in 2020, The World Health Organization officially names the coronavirus outbreak as COVID-19, with the virus being designated SARS-CoV-2.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
Native American-French Canadian explorer, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, born on this date in 1805.
American physicist, Josiah Willard Gibbs was born 187 years ago today.
Thomas Edison, the American engineer and businessman, developed the light bulb and phonograph was born 179 years ago today.
Born February 11, 1864, French chemist Louis Bouveault.
Hungarian-American physicist and academic, Leo Szilard was born 128 years ago today.
Born February 11, 1917, American author and screenwriter Sidney Sheldon.
American actor and director, Burt Reynolds, born on this date in 1936.
The first CEO of Apple Inc., Michael Scott is 81 today.
American engineer and astronaut, Richard Mastracchio, born on this date in 1960.
Listener Birthdays
18 – Hot John Miller of MegaPodTastic
18 – Ray Insalaco
19 – Scooter in Connecticut
19 – Steve in Sumter
19 – Steve Cody(Columbia, SC)
23 – Zhadum
23 – Keith Hughes(a.k.a. EdGizmo)
25 – Norbert
25 – Sandi Sheppard (Mark’s lovely wife)
28 – Wayne “Your Ad Here” Pittenger
29 – Paul Dove a.k.a Eilmer
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for February 18, 2026
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News
Barack Obama says aliens are ‘real, but I haven’t seen them’ in out-there new interview
Woman sentenced for accusing her estranged spouse of illegally accessing bank account from outer space
Astronomers puzzle over ‘inside out’ planetary system – World – DAWN.COM
NASA Running Out of Non-Life Explanations for What Its Rover Found on Mars
Hacks & Strange Stories
Chuck’s new media controller
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Future predictionsb from the past | Did they remain fantasy?
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Avner BravermanMark KilfoilStewe LundinChris MartinezGary LindrosJason PollardSarah Rose
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Kyle NishiokaBen VaughanJohn NobleJohn CliffordDenise InglisSteve CodyTim CookSteve Webb
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Alexis DuranAmber ElstadAmy BowenBrad MillerBrian BrownChris McDanDMan CoyerDean JensenJorge SchrauwenKrazy JoeMike WillsLeonMSaturday Morning MediaStephen WescheSteve TherrienSylvain Racicot
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Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection (Audible)
Ocotillo Dreams (Hardcover)
RED (Plex)
Jekyll and Hyde (Netflix)
Kreg
E.T. (Roku)
Question of the week
What is the most ‘high-tech’ piece of equipment you own that you still have to ‘fix’ by hitting it, shaking it, or blowing on it?
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February 11Episode 797: Technorama: It’s Why Your Molecules Are Probably Insulted
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On This Day In History for February 11, 2026
This is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 323 days remaining in 2026.
It was on this date in 1584, that a naval expedition led by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa founded Nombre de Jesús, the first of two short-lived Spanish settlements in the Strait of Magellan.
Jesse Fell burned anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal. on this date in 1808.
Also today in 1826, University College London was founded as University of London.
BBC Television produced the world’s first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term “robot” on this date in 1938.
Also on February 11, 1963, The Beatles recorded their first album Please Please Me.
That same date in 1997, Space Shuttle Discovery was launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
It was on this date in 1999, that Pluto crossed Neptune’s orbit, ending a nearly 20 -year period when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to interact with Neptune’s orbit again until 2231.
That same date in 2000, Space Shuttle Endeavour was launched on STS-99 to conduct the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
It was on this date in 2001, that a Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.
Also today in 2020, The World Health Organization officially names the coronavirus outbreak as COVID-19, with the virus being designated SARS-CoV-2.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
Native American-French Canadian explorer, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, born on this date in 1805.
American physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs was born 187 years ago today.
Thomas Edison, the American engineer and businessman, developed the light bulb and phonograph was born 179 years ago today.
Born February 11, 1864, French chemist Louis Bouveault.
Hungarian-American physicist and academic, Leo Szilard was born 128 years ago today.
Born February 11, 1917, American author and screenwriter Sidney Sheldon.
American actor and director, Burt Reynolds, born on this date in 1936.
The first CEO of Apple Inc., Michael Scott is 81 today.
American engineer and astronaut, Richard Mastracchio, born on this date in 1960.
Listener Birthdays
14 – Douglas E. Welch of Career Opportunities Podcast
14 – Andrew
15 – Philip
17 – Bob Trate of MegaPodTastic and Action Figure Junkies
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for February 11, 2026
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News
Can apes play pretend? Scientists use an imaginary tea party to find out | PBS News
‘Invisible scaffolding of the universe’ revealed in ambitious new James Webb telescope images | Live Science
Hacks & Strange Stories
Prankster Launches Super Bowl Party For AI Agents – Slashdot
This tiny molecular trick makes spider silk almost unbreakable | ScienceDaily
A superfluid freezes and breaks the rules of physics | ScienceDaily
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Soul on Fire (Netflix)
Miracle: The Boys of 80 (Netflix)
Kreg
The Rockford Files
Doc Martin
Geek Library
The Underground Internet of the 1980s
Venus Flytrap & Johnny Fever – WKRP Double Feature
Question of the week
If you were one of the four astronauts on Artemis II, looking back at Earth from the far side of the Moon, what is the one thing from home you’d realize you completely forgot to pack?
Patreon Topic this week
Bad software support – Chuck’s new insurance
Chuck’s new hearing aids
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February 03Episode 796: Quantum Mechanics for the Rest of Us
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Episode 800 is coming! (ETA March 15)
On This Day In History for February 4, 2026
This is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 330 days remaining in 2026.
It was on this date in 1789, that George Washington was unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
Also today in 1825, The Ohio Legislature authorized the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
Lunar Orbiter 3 lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft on this date in 1967.
Also on February 4, 2004, Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
German violinist and composer, Johann Ludwig Bach, born on this date in 1677.
German physicist and engineer, Ludwig Prandtl was born 151 years ago today.
Reinhold Rudenberg, German-American inventor and a pioneer of electron microscopy was born on that same date in 1883.
Australian paleoanthropologist, Raymond Dart, born on this date in 1893.
Charles Lindbergh, the American pilot and explorer was born 124 years ago today.
American civil rights activist, Rosa Parks, born on this date in 1913.
Conrad Bain, Canadian-American actor was born on that same date in 1923.
Listener Birthdays
4 – Stewe Lundin
7 – Chad W. Smith
7 – Bryon the Big BS
7 – Tracy Rotton
8 – Jan Scott
9 – Podcast Mike
10 – Zach Akgulian
10 – Drace (Shari from ND)
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for February 4, 2026
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News
13,000-Year-Old Cosmic Airburst Triggered ‘Impact Winter’ and Mass Extinction, Research Suggests | Technology News
What is Moltbook? The strange new social media site for AI bots
New Research Reveals Humans Have a Remote Touch “Seventh Sense”
Hacks & Strange Stories
Screaming Wi-Fi: Converting wireless traffic into analog static
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There’s Something About February – Science Museum Blog
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The Wrecking Crew – Prime
Playing Gracie Darling – Netflix
Free Bert – Netflix
Code 3 – Hulu
Modern Marvels: Gadgets of the 1980s (S12, E15) | Full Episode | History – YouTube
Doc Martin – Pluto
Chuck
Death and Other Details – Hulu
The Beast In Me – Netflix
Geek Library
This Was The Top Selling Video Game Console of 1976!
Question of the week
If a digital archaeologist from the year 2126 dug up your primary ‘junk drawer’ (physical or a digital folder), what would they conclude was the most important—yet completely useless—relic of our time?
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January 21Episode 795: The Winter of our Disconnected Content
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On This Day In History for January 21, 2026
This is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 344 days remaining in 2026.
It was on this date in 1789, that The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth by William Hill Brown, was printed in Boston.
118 years ago today, New York City passed the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
January 21, 1911, The first Monte Carlo Rally took place.
The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States on this date in 1954.
Also on January 21, 1960, Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifted off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
That same date in 1971, The current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, began transmitting UHF broadcasts.
It was on this date in 1976, that Commercial service of Concorde began with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
January 21, 1981, Production of the DeLorean sports car began in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
NASA’s MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceased communication with mission control. The problem was in the management of its flash memory and was fixed remotely from Earth on February 6 on this date in 2004.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
Royal Navy officer, hydrographer, astronomer and numismatist, William Henry Smyth, born on this date in 1788.
American general, explorer, and politician, 5th Territorial Governor of Arizona, John C. Frémont was born 213 years ago today.
Born January 21, 1827, Russian mathematician and theorist Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin.
Dutch mathematician and academic, Pieter Hendrik Schoute was born 180 years ago today.
Joseph Achille Le Bel, the French chemist was born 179 years ago today.
Born January 21, 1874, French mathematician René-Louis Baire.
Belgian-American astronomer George Van Biesbroeck was born 146 years ago today.
Russian mathematician and theologian, Pavel Florensky, born on this date in 1882.
Paul Allen, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Microsoft was born on that same date in 1953.
Listener Birthdays
21 – Michael Rabalais
22 – TAW012294
23 – Kathie Luke, IL
23 – Chris Moody from PodioMedia Chat
23 – Keith Lane from TGGeeks
24 – Cynthia Fry
25 – Kreg Steppe
26 – Will The Computer Guy
27 – Mark in Memphis
27 – Chip Burkhead from The Scotchcast
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 21, 2026
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News
Lunar Standard Time (LTE440): Scientists have developed new software to translate Earth’s time flow to the Moon’s, accounting for gravitational differences.
The Bot Takeover: Recent reports confirm that 51% of all web traffic is now generated by bots, surpassing human activity for the first time in a decade.
DNA Storage Breakthrough: A Twist Bioscience spin-off is targeting terabyte-scale DNA storage, theoretically fitting 13TB of data into a volume the size of a water droplet.
Hacks & Strange Stories
Doom in the Kitchen: A programmer successfully ported the classic shooter Doom to run on a smart electric cooking pot after reflashing its touchscreen firmware.
Gen Z’s Retro Revival: Why younger generations are ditching smartphones for “obsolete” early-2000s digital cameras and Walkmans to find “authenticity”.
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Dune (1984) – Netflix
Starfleet Academy – Paramount+
Finding Nemo – Plex
Kreg
The Running Man – Paramount+
Starfleet Academy – Paramount+
Rewatch – Ted Lasso – Apple TV
Question of the week
If you could upload your consciousness into any robot from sci-fi history, which one would you pick and why?
Patreon Topic this week
I got a new phone case
Hearing aids and glasses ordered
What I discovered about moving my songbook app off ServiceNow
Don’t end your password with a % if you plan on putting it in a ‘.env’ file
Notion APIs are too slow!
Sequelize is cool (and very familiar)
Anbernic
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January 14Episode 794: Set Phasers to ‘Mild Inconvenience’
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Email about cursive from Lisa
Hello gents.
I started out as a preschool/prek teacher teaching Littles how to write their names. Cursive was originally used in the Quill and ink pot days so you could write without lifting the quill too often it was also too increase speed and to be stylized in Victorian times.
Because if your think about it things were much prettier back in those times. Smellier but Fancier of course.
Catch ya on the next podcast.
On This Day In History for January 14, 2026
This is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 351 days remaining in 2026.
It was on this date in 1899, that RMS Oceanic, the largest ship afloat since SS Great Eastern, was launched.
January 14, 1911, Roald Amundsen’s South Pole expedition made landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
On January 14, 1952, NBC’s long-running morning news program Today debuted, with host Dave Garroway.
72 years ago today, The Hudson Motor Car Company merged with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
Also on January 14, 1973, Elvis Presley’s concert Aloha from Hawaii was broadcast live via satellite, and set the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer, Johann Matthias Hase, born on this date in 1684.
Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, French sailor, explorer, and politician was born on that same date in 1705.
Polish mathematician and academic, Hugo Steinhaus was born 139 years ago today.
Mark Goodson, the American game show producer, created Family Feud and The Price Is Right was born 111 years ago today.
American director, producer, and screenwriter, Steven Soderbergh, born on this date in 1963.
Also turning 57 today is American actor, director, and producer Jason Bateman.
Listener Birthdays
6 – Matt Posz (recently added, and recently missed)
14 – Glynne Tolar
15 – Ralph Whitfield (aka GoofyRalph)
17 – fuffy_frog (aka Kristina) originally from Canada but now from Thailand
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 14, 2026
If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the Birthday Calendar link.
News
Space platypuses stumped astronomers
When does the Nasa Moon mission launch and who are the Artemis II crew?
Annual ‘Worst in Show’ CES list released | AP News
Hacks & Strange Stories
The Isolator | The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction | Manifold@UMinnPress
BASIC Programming With No Strings Attached | Hackaday
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His&Hers – (Netflix)
Chuck
Game of Thrones (S1) – Plex
11.22.63 (Netflix)
Lazarus Project (S1/S2) – Netflix
Johnny Mnemonic – Netflix
Question of the week
If you had to let a Generative AI write your professional bio using only your last three online purchases, what would your new job title be?
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