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Six STEM Tweets - Aug 8 2024
Fermat's theorem, Linus' 2 Nobels and more
Harshal Chhaya
August 20, 2024
Six STEM Tweets
Six tweets that celebrate engineering and all things STEM.
I scroll so you don’t have to.
A little later than usual due to personal travel. Hope the special issue on “Venn diagrams” helped while you waited..
(All previous issues are at https://sixstemtweets.beehiiv.com/ to peruse and enjoy and re-enjoy)
#1
Fermat was born 417 years ago today. In 1637, Pierre de Fermat, a French lawyer with a passion for mathematics, casually scribbled a note in the margin of his copy of an ancient Greek text, Arithmetica by Diophantus. In this small space, he claimed to have discovered a proof for… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary)
10:48 AM • Aug 17, 2024
Fermat’s birthday was a couple of days back.
And thanks to https://www.instagram.com/mathphilately/, here’s a French stamp commemorating Fermat.
(If you like math and stamps (and who doesn’t? 😀 ), please follow Math Philately on Instagram)
#2
It's #NationalAviationDay, but that doesn't seem quite adequate for this pioneering rotorcraft – the first powered, controlled flight on any world other than Earth. 🫶
Celebrate by downloading the #MarsHelicopter commemorative poster: go.nasa.gov/4dSbU8B
— NASA Mars (@NASAMars)
4:14 PM • Aug 19, 2024
We have a helicopter. On another planet! 🤯
Engineering to the max!
#3
actually insane that solar panels and semiconductors are basically the same technology. turns out that halfway up the technological tree for teaching sand to think you also get to turn light into lightning
— sophia (@cis_female)
1:39 AM • Aug 19, 2024
I just love the phrasing of this - so evocative!
#4
Linus Pauling is the only person to have received two unshared Nobel Prizes - in chemistry and peace.
He used quantum mechanics to understand and describe chemical bonding. Later he campaigned vehemently against nuclear weapons and spearheaded a petition to ban nuclear testing.
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize)
10:49 AM • Aug 19, 2024
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 for his groundbreaking work on the nature of chemical bonds and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962 for his tireless efforts to ban nuclear weapons testing.
#5
YOU MATTER,
unless you multiply yourself by the speed of light² , then you energy.
— World of Engineering (@engineers_feed)
6:07 PM • Aug 19, 2024
#6
I like how this is a mix of continuous and piece-wise graphs Because Netflix shows are countable and panic isn’t
This is issue #36
Atomic number of Krypton (the only element to share a name with a superhero’s home planet)
It’s the perfect score on the ACT competitive exam
The international calling code for Hungary
36 the first non-trivial square triangular number - a number which is both a triangular number and a square number
The two smaller ones are 0 and 1
I enjoyed putting together the last issue on Venn diagrams. Several of you did too. Looks like the Venn diagram of subscribers to this newsletter and folks who love Venn diagrams is just one circle. 😁
JC wrote: This issue was super special - it was hard to choose which tweet 🐣 or rather which Venn was better than the other.
Love this! 😄
If there’s any topic that you think also deserves a special issue, please let me know!
Please share this with someone you like. They’ll like you even more. I guarantee it!
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