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Post by hobie16 » Sun Jul 20, 2014 9:09 am

Emmeline Pankhurst's 156th Birthday

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Post by hobie16 » Sun Jul 20, 2014 9:14 am

Nelson Mandela's 96th Birthday

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Post by hobie16 » Sun Jul 20, 2014 9:15 am

Sohair El-Qalamawy's 103rd Birthday

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Post by hobie16 » Thu Jul 31, 2014 9:53 am

Belgium National Day 2014

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Post by hobie16 » Thu Jul 31, 2014 9:54 am

Opening of Glasgow Commonwealth Games

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Post by hobie16 » Thu Jul 31, 2014 9:55 am

Robot Taekwon V's 38th Birthday

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Post by hobie16 » Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:54 pm

John Venn's 180th birthday

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On Monday, Google honored the work of John Venn, an English philosopher who devised a clever way to group things visually. His namesake Venn diagrams use circles to gather together similar traits and to reveal what unites us and what divides us.

For example, in one circle we have "mammals" (cats, goats, humans). In the other circle are "things with wings" (airplanes, butterflies, cartoon characters who drink Red Bull). But with a Venn diagram, the two circles overlap. So, what is a mammal that has wings? Click on the interactive Google Doodle to reveal at least one answer: bats.

Google sketched up several fun combinations: What is a form of "sea life" that is "tiny." How about the itty-bitty plankton that whales eat? What "transport" "thrives in cold"? A Zamboni, which, by the way, received its own Google doodle last year.

Dr. Venn actually never used the term "Venn diagram." He called them "Eulerian Circles," because they were similar to "Euler diagrams," introduced by Leonhard Euler a century earlier. But Euler diagrams are slightly different. Euler had circles within circles. For instance, imagine a big circle for "sea life" and a smaller circle inside that one that says "fish" and another small circle for "coral."

Rather than have small circles inside big circles, Venn's innovation was introducing overlapping circles. Small improvement, sure. But the change was substantial enough that school children across America learn Venn's name. Don't feel too bad for Euler. If you took high school math, you can thank him for popularizing pi, trigonometric functions, and the math term "e" (which is short for Euler's number).

"My favorite [combination] that I worked on would probably have to be the kraken [sea life + mythical]," writes a Google representative that worked on the Venn doodle. "I loved the idea of taking something that is utterly terrifying, such as a large sea creature that devours entire ships, and turning it into just a little dude having a bit of fun, albeit still at the expense of the ship and its crew."

Speaking of "having a bit of fun," did you catch Google's reference to David Bowie? If you combine "musical" and "in space," the interactive doodle presents a little astronaut strumming a guitar. This is a wink to Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who recorded his own version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" from the International Space Station.

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Post by hobie16 » Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:57 pm

Comtesse de Ségur's 215th Birthday

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Post by hobie16 » Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:58 pm

Birgit Cullberg's 106th Birthday

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Post by hobie16 » Fri Aug 15, 2014 10:37 pm

Kishore Kumar's 85th Birthday

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