1809 Birth of Charles Darwin, big-name biologist and naturalist, proponent of the now widely accepted…
February 11th
1847 Proud parents Samuel and Nancy welcomed their seventh and last child into the world.…
February 10th
1958 Scientists at Lincoln Laboratory at MIT bounced radar signals off the planet Venus, calling…
Retrofuturism in Infinite Jest
“The neural distillate of, say, orgasm, religious enlightenment, ecstatic drugs, shiatsu, a crackling fire on…
February 9th
1963 The first flight of the Boeing 727 occurred on this date. The first wide-body…
February 8th
1700 Daniel Bernoulli, a swiss mathematician and physicist (who belonged to the famous and overacheiving…
February 7th
1958 The Dutch car DAF 600 is introduced at the Amsterdam Motor Show. It would have…
February 6th
1695 Birthday of Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss-Russian mathematician and theorist. He is noted for his…
A Petition for Women Empowerment
While Russia seems to be backtracking it’s way on the path to women empowerment by…
Maxwell’s Demon
James Clerk Maxwell, the Scottish scientist known for his pioneering work in the theory of…
February 5th
1878 Birthday of André Citroën, French engineer and businessman who founded Citroën (d. 1935). Citroën…
February 4th
1896 Birthday of Friedrich Hund, a German physicist known for his work on atoms and molecules.…