Wednesday Reads

Very sad news from Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek.

I hope he  makes it, but pancreatic cancer is almost as bad as it gets.  It doesn't help he is 78 or 79 years old.
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Obituary:  Jerry Merryman, 86, one of the inventors of the handheld calculator has died.

He's one of the three men credited with inventing the hand-held calculator while working at Dallas-based Texas Instruments. The team was led by Jack Kilby, who made way for today's computers with the invention of the integrated circuit and won the Nobel Prize. The prototype built by the team, which also included James Van Tassel, is at the Smithsonian Institution.

"I have a Ph.D. in material science and I've known hundreds of scientists, professors, Nobel prize-winners and so on. Jerry Merryman was the most brilliant man that I've ever met. Period. Absolutely, outstandingly brilliant," said Vernon Porter, a former TI colleague and friend. "He had an incredible memory and he had an ability to pull up formulas, information, on almost any subject."

He and the others helped make slide rules obsolete.

You can read all about his "murder" of the slide rule here.
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These dudes like this one need to get it through their thick skulls women are not things to put their dicks in and pop kids out.

To be antiabortion means to see women as subhuman.
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