Six STEM Tweets

Six tweets that celebrate engineering and all things STEM.

I scroll so you don’t have to.

This is a special mid-week issue. Dedicated to Venn diagrams.

Let’s go…

#1

A real-life, metal-on-brick Venn diagram! 🤩 

#2

I am just like an electron. Difficult to pin down.

#3

#4

Brian Bilston is an engineer with words - he uses them as components in an intricate system where the whole is way more amazing than the sum of its parts.

#5

I love Randall Munroe’s xkcd because it is so dense with lovely information shared in a simple style

The "alt” text for the above cartoon says: "Things Leonhard Euler created ( most of math ( overlapping circle diagrams ) a cricket bowling machine ) Things John Venn created"

#6

I hope you enjoyed this special mid-week issue dedicated to Venn diagrams.

Do you have a favorite Venn diagram? Hit ‘reply’ to share it with me.

Are there other special topics that deserve a special issue? Which ones?

This is the 35th issue of the newsletter

Some fun facts about 35

• 35 is the sum of the first five triangular numbers (0, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15) making it a tetrahedral number

  • A triangular number or triangle number counts objects arranged in an equilateral triangle.

• Atomic number of Bromine

• 35mm is the most common analog film format

That’s it for this issue.

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Let’s all celebrate science and engineering and curiosity.

Best wishes,

Harshal