It gets a calibrated temperature reading from your Range thermometer, and comes with USDA-and gourmet-recommended presets for meat and candy, Fahrenheit and Celsius scales, notifications that are pushed to all your iOS devices even if they're in another city, and a graphing mode to record your experiments.
Now, The New York Times reports the woman who inspired the Rosie the Riveter poster, a California waitress named Naomi Parker Fraley, has died. Fraley passed away on Saturday at 96 in Longview, Wash., her daughter-in-law, Marnie Blankenship told The Times. Local television station KATU also reported on her death. The real Rosie behind J. Howard Miller's iconic wartime poster, commissioned by the Westinghouse Company's War Production Coordinating Committee, was only recently discovered. It's believed Miller based the We Can Do It poster on a 1942 newspaper photograph of a female war worker.
Confidence votes 282. Elizabeth Gladys (Millvina) Dean was the last living survivor of the Titanic disaster, and no, she is no longer alive. She was two months old at the time of the sinking, which would make her around 97 as of 2009. She passed away at a Southampton nursing home on May 31st, 2009--the same date as the launching of the Titanic's completed hull from Belfast in 1911.