1959 Vanguard 2, the first weather satellite in space, is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.…
Gender Fluidity
‘’And if a man lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of…
February 16th
1880 30 engineers from eight states meet in the New York editorial offices of the…
Genetic Engineering
A throwback to the 20th century leads us to one of the most advanced breakthroughs…
February 14th
1876 The telephone was patented on this date separately by two men – Alexander Graham…
February 13th
1895 The Lumiere brothers filed a patent for appareil servant à l’obtention et à la…
February 12th
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…