The United States declares war on Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Former Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham born. The Republican Representative of California’s 50th District resigns from office November 28, 2005 after admitting to taking $2.4 million in bribes from mostly defense contractors.
Two miles!
By Usha Lee McFarling, Times Staff Writer
An ice core about two miles long — the oldest frozen sample ever drilled from the underbelly of Antarctica — shows that at no time in the last 650,000 years have levels of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane been as high as they are today.
The research, published in today’s issue of the journal Science, describes the content of the greenhouse gases within the core and shows that carbon dioxide levels today are 27% higher than they have been in the last 650,000 years and levels of methane, an even more powerful greenhouse gas, are 130% higher, said Thomas Stocker, a climate researcher at the University of Bern and senior member of the European team that wrote two papers based on the core.
The work provides more evidence that human activity since the Industrial Revolution has significantly altered the planet’s climate system, scientists said.
Later, the scientists took the world’s largest cherry syrup container and made themselves a sweet icy treat.
For the geeks:
On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The public presentation was a session in the of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1,000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse. But the mouse was only one of many innovations demonstrated that day, including hypertext, object addressing and dynamic file linking, as well as shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface.
More at the American Currency Exhibit.
You can also find this gem:
“Science Presenting Steam and Electricity to Industry and Commerce.”
American Currency Exhibit: Artistry and Imagery: Allegories
By demonbaby.