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