Show Notes for September 4, 2013

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  • Space, Mars
    • Gravity on Mars is "62% lower to be more precise. That means that Martian gravity is 38% of Earth’s. A person weighing 100 kg here would tip the scales at 38 kg there.
    • MarsOne project: "The Mars One Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation that will establish a permanent human settlement on Mars in 2023."
    • Biosphere 2
    • Armadillo Aerospace "is an aerospace startup company based in Mesquite, Texas. Its initial goal was to build a manned suborbital spacecraft capable of space tourism, and had also stated long-term ambitions of orbital spaceflight. The company was founded by John Carmack. […] In August 2013, Carmack announced that Armadillo Aerospace had been put in "hibernation mode", following setbacks including the crash of the STIG-B rocket in January 2013."
  • Woman killed by laptop in Surrey crash
  • Kids
    • Zoboomafoo "is an American children's television series that aired from January 25, 1999, to April 28, 2001 […] it features a talking Coquerel's Sifaka, a type of lemur, named Zoboomafoo, or Zoboo for short, and a collection of repeat animal guests. Every episode begins with the Kratt brothers in "Animal Junction", a peculiar place in which the rules of nature change and wild animals come to visit and play."
    • Shaun the Sheep "is a British stop-motion animated children's television series […]. It is a spin-off of the Wallace and Gromit franchise, starring Shaun from A Close Shave as its main protagonist. It first aired in the UK on CBBC in March 2007. The show consists of 80 episodes in 2 series, and the third series is scheduled to air on 25 February"
  • Pipi-stop: "Since 1932 we develop, manufacture and commercialize our device (SWISS MADE). We improve our Pipi-Stop on a regular basis with the help of new technologies"
  • The Bold and the Beautiful "is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. It premiered on March 23, 1987"
    • 27 seasons
    • 6,649 episodes
  • Measles (rougeole)
  • Doxylamine (found in NyQuil) "is a first generation antihistamine. It can be used by itself as a short-term sedative and in combination with other drugs to provide night-time allergy and cold relief. […] is more sedating than some prescription hypnotics […] more effective than the barbiturate phenobarbital for use as a sedative"
  • Apple market share of laptops (US only below)
    • July 2013: "MacBook Air continues to crush ultrabooks"
      • "A new report suggests that Apple continues to control the majority of the “thin-and-light” laptop market. According to data from market research firm NPD Group, per CNET, the MacBook Air dominated the category during the first five months of the year, capturing 56% of thin-and-light laptop sales in the United States."
    • September 2012: "Apple Is Number 1 In U.S. Notebook Sales"
    • can't easily find global market share

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