October 18

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Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

An early version of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.

• ... that mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was a pioneer of programmable computing, and that his Analytical Engine, while not commercially successful as Babbage had hoped, profoundly influenced later generations of computer designs.

• ... that the publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule in 2017 generated new interest in organic golems?

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Arnold Schwarzenegger