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• Paul and Joseph Galvin founded Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in 1928, making adaptors that allowed battery-operated radios to be plugged into household current. When the Great Depression ruined their market, they had to find a new product. The company next door was working on developing radio technology.

The two companies teamed up to figure out how to install radios inside cars.

• By 1930 they had designed a radio for cars.

They finished just before the Radio Manufacturers Association convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Paul Galvin drove there to advertise the new radio. He couldn’t afford to rent a booth. Instead, he parked on the curb outside the convention doors, cranked the radio up to full blast, and started working the crowd, with good success.

• Now it was time to name the new company, so Paul created a name that started with a word that suggested movement, and then added the popular suffix ‘ola’ used in such well-known trade names as Victrola and Pianola. Today it’s a multi-national Fortune 500 electronics company: Motorola. (keep reading, next page)

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Most people in America use at least seven trees each year, through wood, paper and other types of products that use trees. That is over 2 trillion trees throughout the course of the year. Each American uses around 680 pounds of paper each year, and most people just throw it away instead of recycling it for further use. 2000 pounds of recycled paper can actually help to save 17 trees, over 350 gallons of oil, and a lot of landfill space.

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• In 1952, Bell Labs of AT&T sponsored a seminar that explained how the newly developed transistor worked. However, companies had to pay a licensing fee of $25,000 to attend.

• In Tokyo, Akio Morita heard about the seminar. After World War II, he’d started up a firm repairing radios, and he designed a tape recorder. He scraped up the $25,000 fee, only to find that Japanese government would not allow so much money to leave the country.

Forty other companies attended the seminar, among them Texas Instruments, who used the knowledge to produce the first transistor radio released in 1954.

• Undaunted, Morita traveled to Bell Labs on his own in 1953, and convinced them to grant him a provisional license. The Japanese government was impressed with Morita’s industriousness and relented, allowing the license to go through. A year later the first Japanese transistor radio was released. Although Texas Instruments beat him to the market, Morita’s company made transistors commercially successful.

• Morita based the name of his company on the Latin “sonus” which is the root of “sonic” and “sound.” Today the firm is one of the world’s largest conglomerates with annual revenues approaching $100 billion: Sony.

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• Ray was born in 1933 and grew up in California. In 1949 he got a job with Ampex Corporation, improving tape recorders and developing the video tape recorder. He focused on finding ways to overcome the noise interference caused by cosmic X-rays, which cause an annoying hissing on magnetic tapes. (continued on next page)

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However, as The New York Times reports, many states have concerns about how reptiles are obtained, housed and transported before they come into a home as a pet. These methods can have a terrible impact on the environment as well as the welfare of the animal. A 2014 investigation into a major wholesaler found that 80 percent of the reptiles and amphibians in its care were sick, injured or dead due to overcrowding, stress and poor hygiene and nutrition, the Times reports. Capturing healthy reptiles in the wild can impact the local ecology, but the alternative, breeding in captivity, can create increased susceptibility to disease.

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TECHNOLOGY (cont’d) BETTER SOUND (cont’d) • Ray realized that by separating recorded sound into two channels, he could strip unwanted noise while maintaining the clarity of the underlying music.

• In 1966 he took a prototype to Decca Records, who were so impressed they bought his entire production run for the next six months. By the early 1970s, Ray had adapted the technology for the broadcast and motion picture industries. “Star Wars” was the first movie to use his noise-reduction system.

• His company now has 650 employees. Nearly 30,000 movie theaters use his sound system, and his equipment is used to record every radio and TV performance in the world, as well as in car stereos, cassette players, and DVD players.

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• Harald was born in Denmark around the year 935 A.D., the son of King Gorm the Old. He grew up to become the ruler of Denmark, just like his dad. For a brief period he united Denmark, Norway, and Sweden under a single ruler: himself. He ruled until his son deposed him, and died around 986 A.D. • A thousand years later, a Swedish telecom corporation called Ericsson Mobile Communications decided that the world needed a new wireless networking standard to unite computers, cell phones, printers, and PDAs with cable-free communications capabilities.

In 1998 Ericsson invited Nokia, Toshiba, IBM, and Intel to strategy meetings. They worked to develop a new low-power low-cost radio interface between computer accessories. Ericsson’s idea was to integrate them all in order to drive a single wireless standard into the industry. (continued on next page)

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• The project was given a code-name of the English translation of Harald’s Danish last name, because it was uniting technologies just as Harald united countries. The logo is composed of the intertwined ancient runes for Harald’s initials, HB: Harald Bluetooth.

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• A Japanese businessman founded a playing card company in 1889 and named it after the Japanese words meaning “leave luck to heaven.” He handed the company down to his son-in-law, who handed it down to his son-inlaw, who was named Hiroshi Yamauchi.

• Hiroshi paid a visit to the largest playing card manufacturer in the U.S. He was shocked to find them operating in a tiny office. This convinced him he needed to expand his business beyond cards, because he wanted a big factory, not a small office. Hiroshi hired a man named Yokoi to oversee the assembly line. One day he saw Yokoi playing with an automatic handextender contraption, which he had manufactured in his spare time for fun. Hiroshi seized the opportunity, and the ‘Ultra Hand’ sold over a million units. Yokoi was put into product development.

• In 1977 the firm hired Shigeru Miyamoto, whose talent was electronic games. Yokoi and Shigeru worked together to develop a ‘Color TV Game Machine’ which was one of the first video games on the market. In 1981 they had a hit with a game starring an ape, and that was followed by a game starring an Italian plumber who battles creatures in sewers. The firm grew and eventually became Japan’s third most valuable company, still named after the Japanese words for ‘leave luck to heaven’: Nintendo with the popular games called Donkey Kong and Mario Brothers.

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• Number of items in a grocery store containing • From the 16th to the 19th centuries, pirates on ingredients from corn: 3,000 the Mediterranean Sea sailed a small three• Number of cans of cola that can be sweetened masted vessel with square and triangular sails with corn syrup from a bushel of corn: 400 that enabled them to sail faster than their • Percentage the world’s corn grown the of prospectiveofvictims.

Depending on theinsize U.S.: 40% the ship, known as a xebec, between 16 and 40 • Number of countries thaton out-produce guns might be mounted the vessel. the U.S.: • The 0 word xenia has a variety of meanings.

• Percent world’s corn grown China: 20%of To the of ancient Greeks, it wasinthe concept • Percent of U.S. corn produced in Iowa: 18% hospitality, generosity, and courtesy shown • Number states that out-produce Iowa: 0 it’s to those offar from home.

To the botanist, • Number of silks per kernel of corn: the effect of pollen on a seed. And 1to those in • Number of the pollen grains released by each corn Ohio, it’s county seat of Greene County, a community about 21 miles (34 km) from tassel: 5 million Dayton.

• Height of typical corn plant, in feet: 6 to 12 •• Depth of roots a corn plant,term, in feet: 5 Xystus is an of architectural referring to • Number acres planted the U.S.: of a long, of covered portico, inorcorn maininentrance, 90ancient million Greek gymnasiums. Here, athletes would exercisedioxide during inclement • Tons of carbon removed from weather. atmoTo the Romans, the xystus was sphere during a single growing seasonthe by garden one walkway in front of the porticoes, where they acre of corn: 8 planted flower beds.

• Number of other crops that are larger than • Physicians are familiar with two unusual “X” corn in volume: 0 words, and xiphisterna.

The xyster is a • Number xyster of other crops that are more valuable surgical instrument used for scraping bones, than corn: 0 whileproduction the xiphisterna refers to the • Corn per acre in the U.S.cartilage in 1931,at the lower end of the body’s sternum, that long in bushels: 24 flat bone located at the center of the chest.

• Corn production per acre in the U.S. in 2008, • The Greek word xanthos translates “yellow,” in bushels: 154 and several of our awords it for a pick prefix.

• Number of bushels farmeruse could hand Xanthophyll is a yellow pigment found along in a nine-hour day in the year 1917: 100 with cholorophyll in green plants. Plants • Number of minutes for a combine to with yellow stems required are xanthopous.

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CORN (cont’d) • Percent used for ethanol production: 29 • Percent used for livestock feed: 38 • Percent exported: 8 • Percent set aside as surplus: 5 • Percent used for food, industry, and seed: 12 • Percent of corn planted in the U.S. that is sweet corn for eating: 1 • Percent of corn planted in the U.S. that is field corn or “dent corn” for processing and livestock feed: 99% • Percent of corn market controlled by Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, and Cargill: 90 • Percent of corn seed market controlled by DuPont and Monsanto: 58 • Percent of sweeteners used in the U.S. derived from corn: 56 • Pounds of corn required to produce one pound of chicken: 1.5 • Pounds of corn required to produce one pound of pork: 3.5 • Pounds of corn required to produce one pound of beef: 6 • Calories per cup of corn: 175 • Number of ears of corn eaten in 12 minutes by world record holder: 33 • Percent of corn sugar in corn on the cob converted to starch after six hours at room temperature: 40 • Percent of corn flakes that is actually corn: 8 • Amount of money a farmer earns on each $4 box of corn flakes sold: $0.02

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1952, a medical practitioner named the Apparently, their vehicle would neverperplexing sickness Irukandji syndrome after thenever peopleland. who so often suffered from it. The cause of the illness remained unknown until 1964, when a physician and toxicologist named Jack Barnes theorized it was caused by a tiny jellyfish commonly found in the tropical waters of the area. No bigger than a cube of sugar and nearly invisible in the water, this jellyfish delivers a venom 100 times as potent as that of a cobra and 1,000 times stronger than a tarantula. However, the sting itself is only moderately painful, similar to a mosquito bite, and the venom forW an M hour or Rdoesn’t L O Obegin T Dworking OAN two after contact with human skin.

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IRUKANDJI JELLYFISH (cont’d) • The jellyfish that caused the illness is now called the Irukandji jellyfish. There are sixteen different species of Irukandji jellyfish, some of which inhabit tropical waters of the United States. Up to 100 people per year end up in the hospital after encountering this creature. A single sting is normally not fatal, and the illness usually abates after about 30 hours. Treatment is merely supportive.

• Their range is constantly expanding due to climate change. Most stings occur during the warmest months of the year when the jellyfish are most active.

• In the 1960s, Irukandji syndrome would strike the Irukandji people for only one month out of the year: the warmest month. Now the Irukandji season lasts for six months out of the year.

During the season, lifeguards on the beaches drag nets through the water and if they find one Irukandji, the beaches are closed down.

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• Recent research indicates that massive doses of magnesium can help prevent the danger of the toxin by counteracting the effect of adrenaline and lessening the risk of heart failure and stroke. However, there is no known antidote to the venom itself.

• In the meantime, the best solution seems to be to either stay out of the water, or wear panty hose while swimming.

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