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This Week in history
- Victoria Claflin Woodhull announced her candidacy for president on April 2 in 1870
- Sally Ride becomes the first U.S. woman in space on April 4 in 1983
- Valentina Tereshkova – First Woman in Space
- Pocahontas marries John Rolfe on April 5 in 1614
- Canadian Fran Phipps became the first woman to reach the North Pole on April 5 in 1971
- Robert Peary and Matthew Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole on April 6 (today) in 1909
- Robert Edwin Peary
- Matthew Alexander Henson
- The United States took possession of the Virgin Islands on March 31 1917
- Daylight Saving Time goes into effect for the first time in the United States on March 31 1918
- The first U.S. weather satellite, TIROS-1, was launched from Cape Canaveral on April 1 1960
- TIROS-1 information
- President Nixon signed a bill into law banning cigarette ads from radio and television on April 1 1970
- Steve Wozniak and his pal Steve Jobs found Apple Computer on April 1 in 1976
- The First modern Olympic Games opened in Athens, Greece on April 6 in 1896
Current Stories
- Leaping Shampoo, the Kaye Effect
- Giant squid are schooling off the coast of California
- Attn. Germaphobes – clamshell cellphone shape UV Disinfectant wand kills 99.9 percent of bacteria and viruses
- Lake in China disappears 8 years after formation
- Coffee Art Break – UMMMM Coffee!
- Why the Rich get richer – explained by geeks
- 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Robots
- The Real da Vinci Code – da Vinci and his humanoid robot
- Model Behavior – Wind Tunnels vs Computers
- Science Hack – The Bernoulli�s Principle
- Brain Parasite Can Alter Fear Response and May Have Altered Human Behavior
- The Memory Hacker – Computer Chip That Holds Memories
- New multi-touch display screen demonstration
- Human Computer Interaction in Science Fiction Movies
- The Daylight Saving change – no savings, no point
- Autonomous Jumping Microrobots – Robotic Fleas!
- DARPA Issues Request for Proposals for New Morphing Oozing ChemBot to squeeze through small openings
- New Space Grease Monkey Robot to repair satellites – Orbital Express Space Operations Architecture program
Featured Artist
Credits
- Opening Comment by Adam Curry of Daily Source Code
- First ending clip – Addicting Bleach video
- Second ending Clip – Star Wars in 30 Seconds by the Bunnies
- Music – Derek K Miller – Washing Off Like An Aardvark and Clouds or Smoke?
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