Science, Tech and Society (2022 – 2023)

2022: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | June | July | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
2023: Jan
Inspiration includes AP, CHM, History.com, NASA, TDITH, TISH

January 2022

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  1. Dark side of the moon (Facebook)
  2. Solar flare captured 20 January 2022 (Facebook)
  3. Environmental regulation works (Facebook)
  4. Jupiter, the fifth planet (Facebook)
  5. Science as art
  6. What is the color of water?
  7. IBM and the Holocaust
  8. Space shuttle Challenger explodes (Facebook)
  9. Carl Benz (Facebook)
  10. Doug Engelbart (Facebook)
  11. Ham experiences low Earth orbit
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February 2022

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  1. The OED: how we know the history of the word “vax”
  2. The ice cream scoop is very old!
  3. A woman pilots a space shuttle
  4. The shoemaker’s cabinet and its modern corollary, the shoe shine stand
  5. How the white collar was born
  6. The woman who found the oldest evidence of human bipedalism
  7. Venus is at its most brilliant this month
  8. First trans-Atlantic TV broadcast
  9. Weather forecasting was initially an Army undertaking
  10. Man v machine: part one
  11. Japan and China became space powers in 1970
  12. Insulin treatments for diabetes are 100 years old
  13. Almost 400 years ago, Galileo faced heresy charges
  14. First solar system Family Portrait
  15. YouTube is 17 years old
  16. How 9-1-1 became America’s emergency number
  17. Japanese researcher honored for chickenpox vaccine
  18. Apple.com is 35 years old
  19. The first warrant issued to search a computer storage device
  20. John Glenn was the first American (but third man) to orbit the Earth
  21. “Bubble Boy” dies after unsuccessful bone marrow transplant
  22. Cloning, from Huxley to Dolly to Kurt
  23. Mobile phones, TCP/IP and murder
  24. An unintended consequence of war
  25. About 20,000 years ago, ancient Africans started sticking closer to home
  26. From military defense to daily necessity: radar
  27. For much of America’s history, voting was a non-secret affair
  28. Covid-19 vaccines: record speed
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March 2022

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  1. In the beginning, Netscape
  2. The Antarctic ozone hole, a global environmental success story (sorta)
  3. Lincoln promoted science while fighting the Civil War
  4. From agricultural research to an agent of war: nerve gas
  5. When Arkansas turned a blind eye to forensic science and justice
  6. Bayer Aspirin: patented on this day in 1899
  7. Transformative communication technologies: the telephone
  8. Failed WWII attempt to create rubber substitute yields Hall of Fame toy
  9. How old is Reddi-wip?
  10. When cost-cutting kills: the Boeing 737 Max 8
  11. The “Spanish Flu” breaks out in Kansas in March 1918
  12. The first fireside chat
  13. The birth of the K-9 Corps
  14. Pelican Island, the birth of the National Wildlife Refuge System
  15. From mold and dirt to drugs, antibiotics have transformed medicine
  16. Real gas prices are not at record levels; corporations are price gouging
  17. St. Patrick’s Day reflects the power of storytelling. And writing.
  18. It’s “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” 111th birthday
  19. Lack of Internet access linked to Covid-19 deaths
  20. The vernal equinox (this year, anyway)
  21. Twitter turns 16
  22. The Humvee’s torturous history
  23. Health care, space, Covid-19 and WWII: 23 March has been history-making
  24. Exxon Valdez oil spill effects still linger
  25. Republicans challenge updated voting technologies, starting with Georgia
  26. Vaccines would eradicate polio in the United States
  27. Earthquake!
  28. Three Mile Island: our brush with a nuclear plant disaster
  29. Mobile phone video helped convict George Floyd’s murderer
  30. The pencil with an eraser that could be sharpened
  31. The 15th Amendment guaranteed the right to vote (30 March 1870)
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April 2022

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  1. Gmail is old enough to vote!
  2. The world’s first anthrax epidemic began 43 years ago
  3. The first computer to fit under an airplane seat!
  4. MLK assassinated
  5. Fox Broadcasting is 35 years old
  6. It’s the 30th anniversary of Microsoft Windows 3.1
  7. AT&T demoed the first TV transmission over telephone lines
  8. Milk bottles: a milestone on the journey to sanitary fresh milk
  9. The Civil War ended 157 years ago
  10. Scientists released the first photograph of a black hole three years ago
  11. Sports broadcasting is 101 years old
  12. Space shuttle Columbia makes its maiden voyage
  13. Ukraine issues memorial stamp
  14. John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln 157 years ago
  15. 75 years ago, Jackie Robinson broke the MLB color barrier
  16. Contracts begin requiring that parts be interchangeable
  17. The first West Coast Computer Faire featured the Apple II
  18. Patent filed for the chemical aspartame; the brain knows it’s not sugar
  19. Moore’s law is born
  20. It was not a “spill”
  21. The Seattle Space Needle is 60 years old
  22. Mosaic 1.0 released on 22 April 1993
  23. Trump suggested injecting bleach to treat Covid-19
  24. Hubble Space Telescope launched
  25. The plastic bag: from invention to pollutant
  26. Congress debates creating a postal telegraph to ‘send mails by electricity’
  27. One of the deadliest days in tornado history in the US
  28. The iTunes Music Store proved consumers would pay for digital music
  29. The first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences
  30. The brightest star in the sky
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May 2022

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  1. Rethinking the salt we eat
  2. From involuntary sterilization to abortion
  3. West Virginia establishes the first sales tax
  4. WWII food rationing coupon book issued
  5. The first American in space
  6. The Hindenburg tragedy, 06 May 1937
  7. In 1847, doctors launched the American Medical Association
  8. From patent medicine to global conglomerate
  9. FDA approved the birth-control pill in 1960
  10. American book bans focus on race and gender identity
  11. From human computers to computerized spreadsheets
  12. Origin myths: QWERTY and Dvorak
  13. Don’t call it VELCRO®!
  14. The first vaccine: smallpox
  15. 15 May 2022: a melange
  16. Watergate hearings begin
  17. Mount St. Helens blows
  18. A patent for keeping severed heads alive
  19. Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart fly across the Atlantic
  20. Daylight Saving Time begins in the UK
  21. Robert Metcalfe visualizes a networked world
  22. New York Public Library dedicated
  23. Let there be light!
  24. Milk carton kids: appropriate awareness or exaggerated stranger-danger?
  25. We’ll do nothing about gun violence until we accept that the Second Amendment was about slavery
  26. Iconic skyline a triumph during the Great Depression
  27. The first cloned horse was born in Italy 19 years ago
  28. A day to celebrate women race car drivers
  29. A day for awareness, not just remembrance
  30. 101 years ago, the Tulsa Race Massacre began
  31. Ted Turner launches CNN
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June 2022

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  1. Velveeta, the recover-and-reuse, then reformulate, American … something
  2. Long-distance electricity comes to Portland, Oregon
  3. Congress passes the 19th Amendment; it moves on to the states
  4. When Apple shifted to the Intel chip
  5. Bobby Kennedy dies in California
  6. Alan Turing, 41, died in London
  7. When Israel attacked the USS Liberty
  8. 1973: Secretariat wins the Triple Crown
  9. The window envelope is 120 years old
  10. Gas prices at the pump have increased faster than crude in the barrel
  11. Science supports law: race is a social construct
  12. Microsoft announces vaporware
  13. Happy birthday, UNIVAC!
  14. We all scream for ice cream!
  15. First woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova
  16. Evolution of Federal Register comments and Speak out to end corruption (The Moderate Voice)
  17. Image shows rings around a black hole
  18. The tireless effort to create a national religion
  19. The White House and solar energy
  20. Columbia Records introduces the long playing vinyl record
  21. The G.I. Bill demonstrated the power of public investment in people
  22. Global warming has begun
  23. Professors injured by mail bombs on each coast, part of a “string of bombings” that began in 1978
  24. June 25th deceptions: broken treaties, broken oaths
  25. The bar code is born
  26. One year ago: the Pacific Northwest was gripped by historic heat wave
  27. As We May Think
  28. The first iPhone goes on sale
  29. The Corvette is 69 years old
  30. GWTW hits the bookstores
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July 2022

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  1. The television era begins
  2. Seattle is home to the world’s longest floating bridges
  3. Mechanization comes to newspapers
  4. The first round-the-world telegram foreshadowed a shift in global news
  5. Elvis records ‘That’s All Right (Mamma)’
  6. The first African American tennis champion was a woman
  7. The Carters celebrate 76 years of marriage
  8. A myth is born
  9. Pan Am Flight 759, the second deadliest crash that killed 153
  10. The Scopes trial begins
  11. The rise and fall of the slide rule
  12. Webb’s First Deep Field reveals thousands of galaxies
  13. The Global Jukebox straddles the Atlantic
  14. From Mars to the origins of the universe
  15. Twitter turns (sweet?) 16
  16. The United States starts the nuclear age
  17. Wrong-Way Corrigan joins Lindbergh, Earhart
  18. In 1876, the British government launched an industrial air pollution investigation
  19. Seneca Falls hosts the first American women’s rights convention
  20. In 1925, Darrow questions Bryan on ‘his view of the literal truth of the Bible’
  21. From Mercury to Atlantis: 50 years of manned space travel ended on 21 July 2011
  22. Around the world in (about) eight days
  23. William A. Burt patents the first working model of a typewriter
  24. Apollo 11 splashes down in the Pacific
  25. First “test tube” baby
  26. Hillary Clinton becomes the Democratic Party presidential nominee
  27. Technology, a tool with no agency
  28. Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
  29. On the eve of the 20th century, 26 nations grappled with tactics and weapons of war
  30. In God We Trust
  31. The last British TV ad for cigarettes (until 2014, that is)
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August 2022

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  1. The Navy recalls retired Commander Grace Hopper
  2. Does anybody really know what time it is?
  3. The USS Nautilus crosses the North Pole beneath the Arctic ice cap
  4. The day the Fairness Doctrine died
  5. The saga of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable
  6. The United States drops a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
  7. ‘The first large-scale general-purpose automatic digital computer’
  8. Nixon resigns
  9. First email from space
  10. An establishment for “the increase and diffusion of knowledge”
  11. Hedy Lamarr, beauty and inventor
  12. The personal computer era gets a kick start
  13. The best blues singer you may not know
  14. Enter the Wiffle Ball, an alternative baseball with holes
  15. Did Earth receive a big “Hello” 45 years ago?
  16. Punch cards enter business vernacular
  17. Recorded music goes digital
  18. Tennessee ratifies the 19th Amendment
  19. First U.S. Cold War coup
  20. Voyager 2 lifts off from Cape Canaveral
  21. Drumbeats on the horizon: the first Lincoln-Douglas debate
  22. The car that saved de Gaulle’s life
  23. In Sweden, a bank robbery begins
  24. Deconstructing history: the eruption of Mount Vesuvius
  25. A hoax goes viral in 1835
  26. This August, it’s 1-in-1,000 rain events (instead of hurricanes)
  27. The giant battery in Alaska
  28. Rufus Porter starts Scientific American
  29. 1957 filibuster would illustrate growing influence of political blogs 45 years later
  30. Meat inspection begins, for exports
  31. The first simultaneous, multi-organ transplant takes place in Houston
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September 2022

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  1. The Doomsday Clock, launched in 1947, edges forward in 1953
  2. Automation and banking
  3. The most photographed man of the 1800s
  4. The first coast-to-coast television broadcast
  5. The first ‘Labor Day’ took place 140 years ago in New York City
  6. Genentech develops synthetic insulin
  7. The U.S. begins the process of transferring control of the Panama Canal
  8. Star Trek or Star Wars?
  9. Radio begins transition from islands to networks
  10. Swanson introduces its frozen turkey dinner
  11. An infamous speech promoted U.S. isolation during WWII
  12. Kennedy calls for “freedom and peace” in space, not “weapons of mass destruction”
  13. Frederic Tudor created the market for ice
  14. North America’s first lighthouse begins operating in Boston
  15. Dose, as well as form, makes the poison
  16. Hollywood introduces CinemaScope
  17. From IBM and the seven dwarfs to Linux + Bonus: The Who and the The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
  18. The second radio network launches
  19. New Zealand first nation to grant women voting rights
  20. Fortran debuts as alternative to machine language
  21. The nation’s first daily newspaper was in Philadelphia
  22. The telegraph and railroads become partners
  23. The story of WD-40
  24. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: the most popular Black poet of her time
  25. From the telegraph to the telephone, but no closer to world peace
  26. Kennedy and Nixon debate on national TV for the first time
  27. Cracking the Rosetta Stone
  28. Ted Williams, one of the best hitters in baseball
  29. Sometimes, the quotation is real
  30. A study in contrasts: OTD, September 30th
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October 2022

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  1. The Yosemite Act of 1890 protects 1,500 square miles in California
  2. Gatorade is born as synthetic sweat
  3. “This machine kills fascists”
  4. Sputnik 1 ushers in the space age
  5. The first televised address from the White House, 05 October 1947
  6. The first train robbery
  7. Soviet spacecraft photographs the dark side of the moon
  8. US stamp commemorates ENIAC
  9. First woman to pilot an airplane across the U.S.
  10. The “Great National Project” is eclipsed by the railroads
  11. Documenting the Great Depression
  12. The NeXT computer is born
  13. When did you start using a cellphone?
  14. First supersonic flight in rocket-powered research plane
  15. British aviator sets land speed record
  16. There’s a fish named for Led Zeppelin
  17. From the first “test tube” baby to the first US birth from a frozen egg
  18. The BBC launches as a private company, 100 years ago
  19. Blockbuster opens its first store
  20. The Saturday Night Massacre: 49 years ago
  21. Word of the day: portability
  22. 225 years ago, a Frenchman fell 3,200 feet from the sky
  23. The iPod “changed everything”
  24. The day the Pony Express died
  25. OTD: John Carpenter’s Halloween lands in theaters
  26. The Donora smog killed 20 and brought national attention to air pollution
  27. NYT political analysis highlights newsroom innumeracy
  28. October 28: ‘thou shall not’ day
  29. It was a shocker!
  30. The most (in)famous radio broadcast
  31. The first ISS crew launches from Russia
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November 2022

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  1. The Library of Congress opens its doors
  2. The Spruce Goose is 75 years old
  3. SOS becomes an official international distress call in 1906
  4. The first presidential election with a computer predicting the winner
  5. Marie Curie delivers her inaugural lecture at Sorbonne University
  6. IBM and Microsoft go beyond a handshake
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