Six STEM Tweets

Six tweets that celebrate engineering and all things STEM.

I scroll so you don’t have to.

Welcome new friends!

Please share this with friends, family, colleagues. 🙏 

#1

All the posters of Hubble’s iconic images are on the NASA website - for us to download.

#2

“Chicago” is the common region in the Venn diagram where George Ferris and Ferris Bueller are the two circles.

#3

This is such a great reminder that “common knowledge” is the result of someone’s painstaking research.

Everything we know today is because someone worked long hours to find the connections.

Curiosity combined with tenacity is a superpower!

#4

Buddo is all 😮 

#5

The proposal is to name the unit of momentum for Emmy Noether. She was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to math which have also impacted physics.

It would be a fitting recognition by naming the unit for momentum for her.

It would also be cool to get a new unit name. I tried to find the most recent constant or measurement unit to get named after a person. I found the list of scientists whose names are used as units and I found the list of scientists who names are used in physical constants but neither has the date of the naming. 😐️ 

Which was the most recent named unit/constant? I am going to try to find out but if you know the answer, hit ‘reply’ and let me know.

#6

😆 

This is issue #37

A few fun facts about 37

• It’s a prime number but also an emirp number - because the reversed digits are also a prime number (I love the ‘emirp’ name! 😄 )

• It is also a ‘sexy prime’ - because it is 6 (‘sex’ in Latin) away from two other primes, 31 and 43 [This math thing seems a lot more fun that I originally thought. 😁 )

• Atomic number of rubidium

• 37 was the international calling code for East Germany until the reunification with West Germany (whose calling code is 49). ‘49’ is the new ‘37’

Thanks to the folks who write and share their ideas, questions and comments.

In response to the last issue, JC wrote: YOU MATTER!

Thanks, JC! 🫶 

And ever the educator, KH saw the post about the Mars helicopter and shared a Physics activity that he had developed a couple of years back. Students were asked to calculate the angular velocity ⍵ of the blades of the copter in rad/s once they reach their final rpm and other things.

That’s it for this issue.

Hit ‘reply’ to tell me what you think.

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Let’s all celebrate science and engineering and curiosity.

Best wishes,

Harshal