Summary: Coming up in this episode…<br> <br> * The Old Interweb<br> * Mice Brains<br> * Speaking Klingon<br> <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="http://wp.me/pe53l-1jp">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br><br> <br><br> Feedback<br> <br> * From Jorge: Snores? Or smores not sure on the spelling. Tootsie rolls/pops?<br> * Voicemail: Mike from Des Moines!<br> <br> On This Day In History for April 12, 2017<br> This is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 263 days remaining in 2017.<br> <br> * It was on this date in 1606, that The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships..<br> * The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west. on this date in 1928.<br> * 80 years ago today, Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England..<br> * April 12, 1945, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office; Vice President Harry Truman, becomes President upon Roosevelt’s death.<br> * On April 12, 1955, The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective..<br> * April 12, 1961, The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, Vostok 1..<br> * That same date in 1981, The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission..<br> * On April 12, 1992, The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland; the resort and its park’s name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris..<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> * mathematician, soldier, engineering professor, Germinal Pierre Dandelin, born on this date in 1794.<br> * Nikolay Przhevalsky, Russian geographer was born on that same date in 1839.<br> * Edward Walter Maunder, the English astronomer studying sunspots was born 166 years ago today.<br> * Ferdinand von Lindemann, German Mathematician was born on that same date in 1852.<br> * American photographer, Imogen Cunningham was born 134 years ago today.<br> * Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German biochemist was born on that same date in 1884.<br> * British automobile designer, Cecil Kimber, born on this date in 1888.<br> * Suez Canal nationalization Engineer., Mahmoud Younis was born 106 years ago today.<br> * American writer of children’s books, Beverly Cleary, born on this date in 1916.<br> * Born April 12, 1925, British animator, puppeteer and writer Oliver Postgate.<br> * Also turning 92 today is American computer scientist. Designed one of the first word processors. Evelyn Berezin.<br> * Soviet cosmonaut and test pilot, Igor Volk, born on this date in 1937.<br> * American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader and composer, Herbie Hancock is 77 today.<br> * American actor, Ed O’Neill, born on this date in 1946.<br> * Also born on that same date in 1947, American comedian and actor, David Letterman.<br> * American author, Tom Clancy, born on this date in 1947.<br> * American actor and musician, David Cassidy is 67 today.<br> <br> Listener Birthdays<br> <br> * 04 – Brian K – My Blog<br> * 04 – Joel McLaughlin (aka Gorkon)<br> * 05 – Chad Davis, Jon Issler (hsteckylf)<br> * 05 – Griffin Sylvester (Ildreancipher)<br> * 05 – Martine Tysmans – <a href="http://martine-tysmans.skynetblogs.be/">citytrips, travelling, jokes… (in Dutch)</a><br> * 05 – Ringmaster Greg from <a href="http://dwithe.com/">Dancing With Elephants</a><br> * 06 – Trevor Litecky (future Geek)<br> * 07 – P.C. Haring<br> * 12 – Rob Hilton<br> * 14 – Danny Harnish<br> * 16 – Donna Tomasi<br> * 18 – Skaifey (Anthony)<br> <br> And that’s the way it was,
