Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/40


 * ... that the discovery of chemical elements curium and americium (pictured) was first announced on a radio show for children in 1945?
 * ... that The Waybacks, a four-piece band from San Francisco Bay, played covers from The Beatles' album Abbey Road at the 2010 MerleFest?
 * ... that one of the Google driverless cars was able to drive itself down the narrow hairpin turns of San Francisco's Lombard Street?
 * ... that it took 340 days of continuous experiments to prepare 22 milligrams of berkelium for the synthesis of 6 atoms of element 117, which took another 150 days?
 * ... that the chemical element einsteinium was discovered in the debris of the Ivy Mike nuclear test (pictured) in 1952?

October - December 2010