The Original Death Star Model Ended Up As A Garbage Can

It's the day in 1977 that Star Wars first showed in movie theaters. Props and costumes from the Star Wars movies have shown up in museums, and a few have had stranger afterlives, including an original model of the Death Star.

By |2024-12-07T20:53:53-05:00May 25, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

Humans Have Their Fingerprints All Over The History Of Fingerprinting

Today is said to be the day in 1858 that a colonial magistrate in India began using fingerprints for identification. But that's just one part of the history of how and why our prints are such a valuable bit of biometric information today.

By |2024-12-10T06:42:51-05:00July 28, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |
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