Today’s Google doodle kicks off a series of holiday doodles leading up to Christmas and New Year’s Day. The doodle, which leads to a search for “December global festivities,” includes three animated images that you can swipe or scroll through using the arrows within the artwork. “The festive season is here and this pair of […]
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For the second day in a row, Google is highlighting a Nobel Prize winner on its home page. Following yesterday’s Robert Koch doodle, today’s doodle marks the 135th birthday of German physicist and mathematician Max Born. Born was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1954 for his research in the field of quantum physics that led
Today’s Google doodle pays homage to Robert Koch, the German physician and microbiologist credited with ushering in the Golden Age of bacteriology. Instead of marking his birthday, Google is honoring Koch with a doodle on the anniversary of being named the Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine in 1905. “By developing many of the
Today’s Google doodle recognizes Jan Ingenhousz, the 18th century Netherlands scientist credited with discovering the photosynthesis process. Google notes while scientists were already aware plants produced and absorbed gases, it was Ingenhousz who discovered and published his research on plants producing oxygen in the sunlight and carbon dioxide in the dark. “He published these findings
Every year, Google brings its own holiday shine to searches for Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and even Festivus (a holiday inspired by the TV sitcom “Seinfeld”), by decorating corresponding search result pages for each holiday term with relevant imagery. This year’s decorations for holiday searches are now on display. For Hanukkah, which begins on December 12
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Google is marking the 50th anniversary of kids learning computer programming language with its first-ever Google doodle that doubles as a coding game. “Today’s Doodle was developed through the close teamwork of not one or two but THREE teams: the Google Doodle team, Google Blockly team, and researchers from MIT Scratch,” says the Google doodle
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Today’s Google doodle is a callout to British horticulturist and garden designer Gertrude Jekyll. Google says that Jekyll was born on this date 174 years ago in London and spent most of her life in Surrey, England, planting enchanting gardens. “As a student, she took inspiration from the landscapes of English Romantic painter J.M.W. Turner,
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Today’s Thanksgiving Google doodle is an animated image of a turkey taking leave for the holidays. “Unlike his domesticated brethren, the Turkey in today’s Doodle is taking flight…from the Thanksgiving table,” writes Google on the Google Doodle blog. Google offered a quick bit of history around Thanksgiving, noting how the first meal 369 years ago
Today’s Google doodle pays homage to the iconic Mexican singer and actor, Pedro Infante. Born in Mazatlán, Mexico, Infante began playing music as part of his father’s band when he was a teenager. “Infante experimented with the style that made him most famous,” writes Google on the Google Doodle blog, “Mixing feeling with technique, his
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Today’s Google doodle marks what would have been the 87th birthday of the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. Best known for his novel “Things Fall Apart,” Achebe began writing during the 1950s, building his stories around the culture and traditions of Nigeria’s Igbo people. He is the author of five novels, four children’s books and several
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