Episode 142 – News Live from Tacoma

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DUSTING OFF THE DEGREE – Mary

THIS DAY IN HISTORY – April 14

• 1775 – The first abolition society in North America is established
• 1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary
• 1846 – The Donner Party of pioneers departs
• 1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford’s Theatre
• 1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg
• 2005 – The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Ribose and related sugars from uv irradiation of interstellar ice pieces created the base for RNA, ribose sugar!
• Newton dabbled in alchemy, searching for the recipe for the Philosopher’s Stone. Recently Chemical Heritage Foundation acquired his recipe for sophick mercury, a key ingredient or the Stone.
• Yeast infection caused a blockage of blood supply, so only four days after the surgery the uterus was removed.

POLITICS AND RELIGION

• Gov Butch Otter has vetoed the Bible in schools bill
• Tennessee has passed a bill to make the Bible the official state book
• Mississippi passes “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from the Government” bill
• Mississippi Church Protection Act
• Bangladeshi secular activist hacked to death
• Canada closed its Office of Religious Freedom | Via Friendly Atheist

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