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Gronk the Data
October 8, 2011 8:51 am
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What does it mean to gronk the data? A listener from the medical device business wonders about the techie word "gronk," which first popped up in Robert Heinlein's 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land. Grant also mentions Jeff Prucher's Brave New Words, a dictionary of science fiction terms that have made their way into the English language. This is part of a complete episode.
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