Six STEM Tweets

Six tweets that celebrate engineering and all things STEM.

I scroll so you don’t have to.

Hi friends!

Here’s another set of interesting posts about all things technology and science. If you like these, please share with a friend.

#1 🤯 

“How do pain killers work?” is a question all of us have or have been asked.

This is such an a-ha! thing to learn. 😄 

And I am super excited to share it with you.

#2 🤯 

I loved finding out more about this striking bird.

The Wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoatzin has some fascinating details

• The species is unique in possessing a digestive system capable of fermentation and the effective breaking-down of plant matter, a trait more commonly known from herbivorous ungulate-ruminant mammals and some primates.

• Hoatzin chicks have two claws on each wing

• It is the only extant species in the genus Opisthocomus

• the birds have a disagreeable, manure-like odor and are only hunted by humans for food in times of dire need; local people also call it the "stinkbird" because of it

#3 🤯 

SciComm architecture is my favorite architecture. 🤩 

Only thing that would make this more effective is a QR code that points to the Wikipedia page for additional information about the equation

(it’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_field_equations 🙂 )

#4 🤯 

This just shows that whether its variables, companies or cute animals, naming things is hard! 😄 

#5 🤯 

There are cathedrals computer chips everywhere for those with the eyes to see them.

#6 🤯 

This is issue #48. Here’s a few fun facts about 48:

• Code for international direct calling to Poland

• Atomic number of Cadmium - a soft-silvery white metal.

• Model number of one of the most popular graphing calculators, HP-48

• Networking addresses aka MAC addresses are 48 bits in size

• 48 is a double factorial of 6

  • the double factorial of a number n, denoted by n‼, is the product of all the positive integers up to n that have the same parity (odd or even) as n.

  • 2 × 4 × 6 = 48

• 48 is the smallest number with exactly ten divisors

• 48 is a Harshad number in decimal, as it is divisible by 4+8 = 12.

That’s it for this issue.

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Let’s all celebrate science and engineering and curiosity.

Best wishes,

Harshal