If you, like most Americans, spend long periods of time in front of a glowing box, this is a big day in history for you. They turned a TV on. On this day in 1926, a Scottish inventor demonstrated something he called a "televisor"...

As computers become more and more ubiquitous in modern society, the demand for people who can program them keeps going up as well. Historically, computer programming jobs have been filled by college graduates with degrees in computer science. But recently, special coding schools have been popping up all over the country that offer intense coding courses that, according to them, can train people for a job in just weeks as opposed to 4 years.

Ever want to just break something out of sheer frustration? Well, now, there are a handful of businesses across the country allowing people to do that. We'll visit one called "The Anger Room" in Dallas

What would you consider to be a long flight? New York to L.A.? Miami to Madrid? Seattle to Shanghai? Those flights keep you in the air for hours at a time. But a member of the animal kingdom has us all beat by finding ways to spend nearly an entire year airborne, with no layover scheduled.

study by doctors at University College Hospitals in London has concluded that improvements in MRI technology...Magnetic resonance imaging...can spare about a quarter of men suspected of having prostate cancer from having to undergo an invasive biopsy procedures...and make biopsies far more accurate for those who DO actually need them.

Something that's intrigued chemical engineers for years is the idea that drugs and other chemicals could be made using sunlight. The problem is that sunlight, by itself, doesn't have enough direct energy to begin a chemical reaction. But some scientists in the Netherlands have recently figured out a way around that.

Tom Nikko is a successful model - although if you saw him, you might not recognize his face. But that's OK with him, says our CBS News colleague Tony Dokoupil: Tom is a hand model.

The environmental movement we have today really began in 1962 with the publication of a book titled "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson. Her eloquent warning of the long range dangers of DDT provoked an important national debate....and vicious attacks from the chemical industry.

We take computers so much for granted these days. It was event on this day in 1984 helped make the machines as common as television sets. It was an announcement by the late Steve Jobs, the co-founder and president of Apple.

When somebody is having a stroke, almost two million brain cells die every minute.

Our CBS News colleague David Begnaud has met a man, an endovascular neurosurgeon - Dr. Ritesh Kaushal - who operates on all of the stroke victims at Palmetto General Hospital outside Miami.