June 2012
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Jun 28th
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Jun 27th
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Jun 26th
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Jun 25th
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Jun 21st
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Happy Birthday, Brian Wilson!
He was only 23 years old when Pet Sounds came out:
Jun 20th
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Jun 19th
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Jun 18th
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Jun 18th
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Jun 13th
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Jun 13th
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Huey's Long Filibuster
Huey Long filibustered for 15 hours and 30 minutes on this day in 1935. As he held the Senate floor, he read the entirety of the US Constitution, offering detailed analysis on each section, and then turned to reading out Shakespeare, among other things.  Wolfram|Alpha calculates that he could speak roughly 139,500 words in that time, which means he could comfortably have gotten through the...
Jun 12th
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Jun 11th
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Jun 11th
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Jun 8th
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The Venus Transit and More!
Yesterday we shared a blog post about tonight’s transit of Venus.  But did you know that Wolfram|Alpha is also a great resources for many other areas of astronomy? Here are a few blog posts that we think are particularly interesting: Moon Phases in Wolfram|Alpha The Sun’s Roar Following the Sun’s Unique Path Making Real-Time Computations: Satellites
Jun 5th
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Jun 5th
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Jun 4th
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Jun 1st
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