Episode 721: Hamburger Technology

Listen below with the audio player or Click Here for complete show notes and video from the show. Feedback QOTW:  If you had to pick one dream job from any fictional universe, what would it be? On This Day In History for August 30, 2023 This is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 123 days remaining in 2023. It was on this date in 1873, that Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discovered the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea Also today in 1909, Burgess Shale fossils were discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott August 30, 1916, Ernest Shackleton completed the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica Also on August 30, 1984, the Space Shuttle Discovery took off on its maiden voyage on mission STS-41-D. Happy birthday goes out on this date to: English novelist and playwright, Mary Shelley, born on this date in 1797. Dutch chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Jacobus Henricus van ‘t Hoff was born 171 years ago today. Carl David Tolmé Runge, German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist was born on that same date in 1856. Swedish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, Theodor Svedberg, born on this date in 1884. Austrian mathematician, Olga Taussky-Todd was born 117 years ago today. John Mauchly, American physicist and co-founder of the first computer company was born on that same date in 1907. American pilot and astronaut, Jack Swigert, born on this date in 1931. Also born on that same date in 1956,  American actor, producer, and screenwriter,TV’s Frank Conniff. Listener Birthdays August 30 – Maximilian Björsten, Stockholm Sweden 31 – Tim Downing September