So I went to Google for my daily vain (and in vain) search for my name, but today I searched on someone else's instead. Now, I'm not sure if I was alone in this, but I didn't understand today's google doodle. You know, the image that temporarily replaces their standard logo on significant events such as the Presidential Election, Independence Day, Christmas and Hans Christian Ørsted's birthday. Wait... who?
I'm not a real geek, but I play one on TV... and even still I was totally unaware of this guy. I didn't even get him a card. Maybe I can send him an eCard? Oh, he's dead? Apparently this Danish physicist and chemist discovered (accidentally, but hey, accidental discoveries still count) that electric currents create magnetic fields. Now don't you feel bad for not knowing him? Glad I could be here to enlighten you.
Have a happy birthday Hans! And to all of you readers (all two or three of you) have a great weekend!
I'm not a real geek, but I play one on TV... and even still I was totally unaware of this guy. I didn't even get him a card. Maybe I can send him an eCard? Oh, he's dead? Apparently this Danish physicist and chemist discovered (accidentally, but hey, accidental discoveries still count) that electric currents create magnetic fields. Now don't you feel bad for not knowing him? Glad I could be here to enlighten you.
Have a happy birthday Hans! And to all of you readers (all two or three of you) have a great weekend!
Yeah it was kinda random that google redesigned it whole site to honor this guy no one had ever heard of... has google even done that before?
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In keeping with its geeky orientation Google Doodles, as they are called, have been produced for a variety of notable birthdays from Albert Einstein, to Nikola Tesla, to Samuel Morse. Hans's may be the most obscure of them, though. I certainly had to look up Mr. Orsted. ;)
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