Six STEM Tweets

Six tweets that celebrate engineering and all things STEM.

I scroll so you don’t have to.

Welcome, new friends!

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#1

We have a robot on another planet! Sending us photos!! 🤯 

#2

This work from a team at MIT “identifies risk. It can tell a woman that you’re at high risk for developing breast cancer before you develop breast cancer,”

The full paper is titled “Toward robust mammography-based models for breast cancer risk”.

#3

#4

I love the one-up nerdiness in this! 😆 

#5

I have always assumed 42 as the answer to everything but looks like 26 is a close contender. This is such a non-intuitive equation. But it’s correct. I confirmed it.

#6

This is a brilliant joke. And is perfect for this week when 👓️ are in the news.

(I have moved the overview, feedback etc. to the bottom to make sure you get to the actual STEMmy stuff sooner.)

This is issue #33 of the newsletter.

33 is the sum of the first 4 factorials

33 = 1! + 2! + 3! + 4! = 1 + 2 + 6 + 24

It is also a palindrome in both decimal and binary (100001).

It’s the atomic number of Arsenic and the very fittingly for this week, the country code for France

In other words it’s a special number! 😀 

Got some really good responses to the post in the last issue about the customs declaration of the Apollo 11 crew.

KH wrote: You mean to tell me they couldn't get "Global Entry" for those guys to speed up the customs process?

If anyone qualified for “interstellar entry”, it’s these guys, right?

JC (a seasoned and veteran international traveler) wrote: The customs form by Apollo 11 astronauts was at a minimum - revealing - of the ways of the US customs and border protection procedures

It’s good to know that the customs folks were always super diligent and serious - even for space travelers.

And another reader friend who wanted to remain nameless corrected my assertion that modern computers use 32-bit words. The common meaning for a “word” is 16 bits. 32 bits is a double word. Yep - that was my mistake. Thanks for the correction. I am glad to have such eagle-eyed readers. 😃 

That’s it for this issue.

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Let’s all celebrate science and engineering and curiosity.

Best wishes,

Harshal