Episode 132 – News for February 4, 2016
By Dustin
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DUSTING OFF THE DEGREE – The Trinity
THIS DAY IN HISTORY – February 4
- 1677 – Johann Ludwig Bach, German violinist and composer
- 1913 – Rosa Parks, American activist (d. 2005)
- 1940 – George A. Romero, American director and producer
- 1947 – Dan Quayle, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 44th Vice President of the United States
- 1948 – Alice Cooper, American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1967 – Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft
- 2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg
- 2006 – A stampede occurs in the PhilSports Arena near Manila, killing 71 people
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Fungus from Antarctica survived Martian conditions simulated aboard ISS
- The rotten smelling Amorphophallus titanum to bloom next week
- Method developed to restore the bacterial benefits of vaginal birth to c-section babies
POLITICS AND RELIGION
- State Legislatures Behaving Badly
– Florida house committee passes abortion ban | via Progressive Secular Humanist
– Washington state senate committee passes transgender bathroom bill | Transgender People’s Bodies Are ‘Security Concerns’ | State Rep. Graham Hunt quits over military-service exaggerations
– Oklahoma has several anti-gay bills | via Raw Story via via Addicting Info
– Utah senate resolution would declare porn a public health crisis | Full bill
– Utah house bill would give opposite sex couples preference in adoption
– Idaho house’s proposed constitutional amendment would allow state funds to go to religious schools - Bundy occupation update
- Religion headed to extinction in nine countries
- Lunch meeting between French and Iranian Presidents canceled over wine
Harlem church of James “There’s semen in my coffee” Manning to be sold at auction | via Joe My God | Gays trying to buy his church
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