Summary: Coming up in this episode... * Discussion about the ice age * mosquito mating rituals * We answer the question Do Spider Monkeys have spidey sense Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-142) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/pEjKme2xdLA Introducing the team... * Shout out to the chat room * Happy Birthday to: * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. * Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. On This Day In History for August 14, 2013 This is August 14, 2013 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 139 days remaining in 2013. * It was on this date in 1880 that Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed. * Also on that same date 1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint. * An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England - that was August 14, 1888 * The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21 was today in 1901 * and 38 years ago today, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens at the USA Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, California. Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: * Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted born on this date in 1777 * and finally American physicist Frank Oppenheimer would have been 101 today And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for August 14, 2013 News * Omni Magazine is coming back to life! (http://io9.com/omni-magazine-is-coming-back-to-life-1069015902) * Man Steals Computer From Church, Asks If They'll Remove Porn Block (http://gizmodo.com/man-steals-computer-from-church-asks-if-theyll-remove-1067281499) Hacks & Strange Stories * Scientists say it's possible to blow up the Sun. On purpose. (http://io9.com/scientists-say-its-possible-to-blow-up-the-sun-on-pur-1081542892)
