Archive for February, 2012

Robert Llewellyn from Red Dwarf, talks about podcasting, Carpool, his new book News from Gardenia, details about Red Dwarf X, and more.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt

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Running time: 55:45

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Dear heavens the iPad announcement finally coming, Why Google + is a ghost town, Cisco wants to save wireless Internet, and more.

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Running time: 42:19

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Nokia’s huge camera sensor, Intel assaults the cheap hone market, Andy Rubin says fun stuff about Android things, and more.

Guest: Harry McCracken

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Running time: 45:09

In 1860 – Herman Hollerith was born. He would grow up to build the first punched-card tabulating machines as well as found the company that was to become IBM.

In 1880 – The bores which had begun to drill the St. Gotthard Tunnel from Göschenen and Airolo, met midway, linking Switzerland and Italy.

In 1940 – Ernest O. Lawrence delivered his 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics banquet speech in Berkeley, California, instead of the usual Sweden, so he could keep raising funds for his cyclotron research which got him the prize int he first place.

Hosts: Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson

We pick our pictures after the fact and take back control of publishing!

Guests: Patrick Hester and Chris Marquardt

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Running time: 51:19

Hey folks! 

So Tom and I are looking for someone in the community to lend a helping hand around the farm. We’d like to hire (YES, HIRE) a production assistant to help us with guest booking, asset gathering, event coordination, and other tasks. 

We need someone who is extremely detail oriented, available around eight hours a week, and obviously has a love of science fiction and fantasy! 

You don’t need to be local to SF, though it would be easier if you were in a timezone that lent itself well to collaboration. 

Please email us at [email protected] with the subject line “Production assistant.” This will be a paying gig, though we cannot shower you in gold (sorry). 

Serious inquiries only, and don’t fret if we don’t get back to you immediately! 

THANKS!!! 

In 1947 – The first closed-circuit broadcast of a surgical operation showed procedures to observers in classrooms at Johns Hopkins University.

In 1954 – The Westinghouse H840CK15 goes on sale in the New York area. It is generally agreed to be the first production receiver using NTSC color offered to the public. Only 30 sets were sold at $1295 a pop.

In 1959 – Discoverer 1 was launched on a Thor-Agena A rocket and became the first man-made object ever put into a polar orbit.

In 1932 – English physicist James Chadwick published a letter on the existence of the neutron, some say giving birth to modern nuclear physics.

In 1891 David Sarnoff was born near Minsk.. He would go on to befriend Marconi and rise to the Presidency of RCA and be integral in founding NBC.

In 1986 – The United States Senate voted to allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis. The trial was successful.

In 1896 – Hoping to test the suns ability to create X-rays. Henri Becquerel placed a wrapped photographic plate in a closed desk drawer, with a phosphorescent uranium rocks laid on top. He left it in the drawer for several days until the sun came out. To his surprise images of the rocks appeared without the sun.

In 1909 – The first successful color motion picture process, Kinemacolor, was shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.

In 1935 – Scottish physicist Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated Radio Detection And Ranging to Air Ministry officials at Daventry, England. This RADAR proved quite helpful a few years later when war broke out.

In 1837 – The U.S. Patent Office approved Thomas Davenport’s application for a patent on an “Improvement in Propelling Machinery by Magnetism and Electro-Magnetism.” We’d call it an electric motor.

In 1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. became the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.

In 1930 – A US patent for a photographing apparatus was issued to George Lewis McCarthy, who called it a Checkograph. It was the first bank check photographing device.