Summary: Coming up in this episode…<br> <br> * Printed Cheese<br> * Legos<br> * And a T-Rex<br> <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="http://wp.me/pe53l-1j9">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for March 22, 2017<br> This is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 284 days remaining in 2017.<br> <br> * It was on this date in 1508, that Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.<br> * That same date in 1630, The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.<br> * 39 years ago today, Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.<br> * NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3 on this date in 1982.<br> * On March 22, 1993, The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.<br> * Also on March 22, 1995, Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> * Persian astronomer and mathematician, Ulugh Beg, born on this date in 1394.<br> * Born March 22, 1785, English scientist Adam Sedgwick.<br> * Chico Marx, American actor was born on that same date in 1887.<br> * American cartoonist, Bill Holman was born 114 years ago today.<br> * Born March 22, 1912, American actor Karl Malden.<br> * Marcel Marceau, the French mime and actor was born 94 years ago today.<br> * Russian colonel, pilot, and engineer, Yevgeny Ostashev was born 93 years ago today.<br> * Also born on that same date in 1931, Canadian actor, William Shatner.<br> * Also turning 86 today is American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Burton Richter.<br> * American mathematician, computer scientist, and author, Rudy Rucker, born on this date in 1946.<br> * English director and composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber is 69 today.<br> * Also born on that same date in 1948, American journalist, Wolf Blitzer.<br> * American actress and producer, Reese Witherspoon is 41 today.<br> <br> Listener birthdays<br> <br> * 22 – Michael Slabodnick<br> * 23 – Andrew Godo<br> * 23 – Doug Kaye<br> * 23 – Steve Riekeberg a.k.a. MissingIntellect of <a href="http://www.geekcred.net/">Geek Cred</a><br> * 23 – Richard Parkman<br> * 25 – Nicholas St Gabriel<br> * 26 – Travis Tomasi<br> * 26 – Chuck Tomasi<br> * 26 – Leonard Nimoy<br> * 26 – Brina Baird in Hampton, VA<br> * 28 – Dick Balding<br> <br> <br> * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our <a href="http://technorama.wikifoundry.com/">Wiki</a>.<br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for March 22, 2017<br> News<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/17/the-internet-picked-a-t-rex-as-one-of-the-new-monopoly-tokens/">The internet picked a T. rex as one of the new ‘Monopoly’ tokens</a><br> * <a href="http://gizmodo.com/the-uk-just-granted-the-first-license-to-commercialize-1793381787">The UK Just Granted the First License to Commercialize Controversial ‘Three-Parent’ Babies</a><br> <br> Hacks & Strange Stories<br> <br> * <a href="http://gizmodo.com/the-first-3d-printed-cheese-was-as-bizarre-as-you-d-exp-1793369564">The First 3D Printed Cheese Was as Bizarre As You’d Expect</a><br> * <a href="http://weburbanist.com/2017/03/15/lego-compatible-tape-lets-you-build-gravity-defying-inception-style-models/">LEGO-Compatible Tape Lets You Build Gravity-Defying Inception-Style Models | Urbanist</a><br> <br> Shout out to the chat room<br><br>
