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Google turns it around, Nokia’s best camera yet, how Steve Jobs used patents as a weapon, and more.
Guest: Natali Morris
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Running time:: 0:41:37
In 1896 – Wilhelm Roentgen spoke to the Würzburg Physical Medical Society where he demonstrated X-rays by photographing the hand of session chair Dr. Albert von Kolliker, a famous anatomist.
In 1960 – With a crew of two, the bathyscaphe Trieste, descended 10,911 meters in the Pacific Ocean into Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench near Guam, the deepest known point in the oceans.
In 2003 – Earth lost communication with space probe Pioneer 10 which was 12 billion-kilometers from Earth.
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We have a whole lot of award finalists to tell you about and Veronica bravely tries to pronounce their names. We also wonder how much said is too much said.
WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?
Tom: Car Men Air Camenere, Chile
Veronica: Something red
QUICK BURNS
TOC: ‘The Fearsome Journeys: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy’ Edited by Jonathan Strahan
Harper/Voyager UK to Release SF/F Classics with Beautiful Minimalist Covers
Tad Williams completes latest novel
Great science fiction authors tell us which novels they wish they’d written themselves
FINALISTS: 2012 BSFA Award
FINALISTS: The 2012 Kitschies
CALENDAR
BARE YOUR SWORD
Veronica’s Reddit AMA
The battle against ‘sexist’ sci-fi and fantasy book covers
Jim Hines Group Cover Pose
Living in a Fantasy world
TV, MOVIES AND VIDEO GAMES
New GAME OF THRONES video
BOOK CHECK-IN
Use of “said”
ADDENDUMS
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We have a whole lot of award finalists to tell you about and Veronica bravely tries to pronounce their names. We also wonder how much said is too much said.
WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?
Tom: Car Men Air Camenere, Chile
Veronica: Something red
QUICK BURNS
TOC: ‘The Fearsome Journeys: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy’ Edited by Jonathan Strahan
Harper/Voyager UK to Release SF/F Classics with Beautiful Minimalist Covers
Tad Williams completes latest novel
Great science fiction authors tell us which novels they wish they’d written themselves
FINALISTS: 2012 BSFA Award
FINALISTS: The 2012 Kitschies
BARE YOUR SWORD
Veronica’s Reddit AMA
The battle against ‘sexist’ sci-fi and fantasy book covers
Jim Hines Group Cover Pose
Living in a Fantasy world
TV, MOVIES AND VIDEO GAMES
New GAME OF THRONES video
BOOK CHECK-IN
Use of “said”
ADDENDUMS
This podcast is brought to you by Audible.com the internet’s leading provider of audiobooks with more than 100,000 downloadable titles across all types of literature and featuring audio versions of many New York Times Best Sellers. For listeners of this podcast, Audible is offering a free audiobook, to give you a chance to try out their service. For a free audiobook of your choice go to audiblepodcast.com/sword.
S&L Podcast – #119 – Pronounce this
Max Headroom is a British-produced American satirical science fiction television series by Chrysalis Visual Programming and Lakeside Productions for Lorimar-Telepictures that aired in the United States on ABC from March 1987 to May 1988. The series was based on the Channel 4 British TV pilot produced by Chrysalis, Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future. It followed the adventures of Edison Carter, reporter for Network 23 and Max Headroom a virutal version of Carter as they struggled against the executives of the netowrk.
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Mozilla puts out some phones, AT&T sucks up some spectrum, Steve Ballmer consolidates his power, and more.
Guests: Brian Dunning
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Running time:: 0:44:30
In 1939 -John Dunning’s Cyclotron split the uranium atom for the first time at Columbia University in New York City. And the Manhattan Project was on.
In 1968 – Apollo 5 lifted off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
In 1984 – Apple aired the famous “1984” commercial for the Apple Macintosh, directed by Ridley Scott.
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Hosts: Brian Brushwood and Tom Merritt
Netflix Super HD 3D Open Connect, YouTube stars fight back, the year of web series, Zombieland TV show on Amazon.com, and more.
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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Kim Dotcom’s triumphant return, Sony’s getting thinner, Gigabit for everyone in the US, and more.
Guests: Dana Wollman
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Running time:: 0:45:29
In 1957 – NBC taped and broadcast President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s second inauguration address, further popularizing the taping of video.
In 1981 – The first DeLorean DMC-12 sports car rolled off the production line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. This one made no use of gigawatts in any way.
In 2004 – The Mars Rover Spirit abruptly stopped transmitting. Apparently too many files had been written to the flash memory and it went into fault mode.
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