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Mar 14 2018

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Einstein, Hawking, mind-uploading, Cage as Superman, weaponizing incompetence
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Published Wednesday, March 14, 2018 @ 7:18 AM EDT
Mar 14 2018

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This is the KGB Report for Wednesday, March 14, the 73rd day of 2018 in the Gregorian calendar, with 292 days remaining.

This is the 418th day of Donald Trump's presidency, of which he has spent 94 days at golf courses at a cost to taxpayers of $58,717,309. There are 1,043 days remaining in his term, assuming he doesn't resign, is otherwise removed from office, or his unhinged, psychotic behavior results in the destruction of the republic.

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In 1956, Ampex Corporation demonstrated the first commercial videotape recorder. 19-year-old engineer Ray Dolby was part of the development team.

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On this date: in 44 BC, Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before the assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should live;
in 1592, "Ultimate Pi day": on this day at 6:53 am was the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi, since the introduction of the Julian calendar (3.141592653);
in 1743, the first American town meeting was held at Boston's Faneuil Hall;
in 1794, Eli Whitney was granted a patent for the cotton gin;
in 1885, The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, received its first public performance in London;
in 1889, German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patented his "Navigable Balloon" (dirigible);
in 1900, the Gold Standard Act was ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard;
in 1903, the Hay–Herrán Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, was ratified by the United States Senate. The Senate of Colombia would later reject the treaty;
in 1936, the first all-sound film version of Show Boat opened at Radio City Music Hall;
in 1958, Recording Industry Association of America certified its first gold record, Perry Como's "Catch A Falling Star";
in 1964, a jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy;
in 1967, The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy was moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery;
in 1973, future US senator John McCain was released after spending over five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp;
in 1994, Linux operating system kernel version 1.0.0 is released;

More of what happened on March 14 from On This Day and Wikipedia.

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Among other things, today is Celebrate Scientists Day, Crowdfunding Day, Genius Day, International Ask a Question Day, Legal Assistance Day, Moth-er Day, Learn About Butterflies Day, National Children's Craft Day, National Write Your Story Day, National Save a Spider Day, National Potato Chip Day, Science Education Day, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day, and Pi Day (from Checkiday.com).

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Florida man sucks down 16 vodkas and eats one chimichanga over 8½ hours, refuses to pay tab.

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Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. He is best known by the general public for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc² (which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation"). He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect", a pivotal step in the evolution of quantum theory. (Full Wikipedia article)

Quote of the day:

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."
-Albert Einstein (Click here for more quotes.)

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R.I.P. Stephen Hawking.

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Scott Kelly spent a year in space, and now he has different DNA than his identical twin brother. No super powers, though. Bummer.

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Vladimir Putin outwitted Megyn Kelly by weaponizing incompetence. The Trump Administration can learn from the Russian President about how to turn bumbling ignorance into an advantage.

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Nicolas Cage will finally play Superman.

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The 13th Amendment: How companies are turning prisons into cash cows.

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A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is "100 percent fatal." Nectome will preserve your brain, but you have to be euthanized first.

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