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Six STEM Tweets - Best of 2024 - #1
Six STEM Tweets
Six tweets that celebrate engineering and all things STEM.
I scrolled so you didn’t have to.
Hi friends,
Here we are. Yet another ‘best of’ list. But this one is different. Full of fascinating facts!
Did I miss your favorite one? Let me know!
Here’s to more knowledge and fascination in 2025!
(all of the previous issues, all 60+ of them, are at https://sixstemtweets.beehiiv.com/)
Love,
Harshal
#1 🤯
22³+18³+59³ = 221859
— World of Engineering (@engineers_feed)
10:12 PM • Mar 29, 2024
Tweet #1, Issue #1
#2 🤯
I love this cross-curricular Venn diagram.
Did you know we had a “special issue” on Venn diagrams?
#3 🤯
#Etna's Southeast Crater continues emitting countless graceful vapor rings ("volcanic vortex rings"), a phenomenon never seen like this before. Someone said "maybe because we receive so much bad news lately, Etna has decided to do something simply beautiful". 5 April 2024
— Boris Behncke (@etnaboris)
4:26 PM • Apr 5, 2024
A volcano blowing smoke rings? Don’t ever tell me there’s no wonder left in the world!
#4 🤯
Math is beautiful ✍️
— Physics In History (@PhysInHistory)
1:12 PM • Apr 12, 2024
This is mind-bending but also technically correct - the best kind of correct.
Thanks to Pythagoras, we know that the hypotenuse is the square root of the sum of the squares of the other to side.
i i + 11 = -1 + 1 = 0
What?!?
#5 🤯
The letter π was first introduced as a symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter by the Welsh mathematician William Jones in 1706.
π is the first letter of the Greek word "peripheria" (περιφέρεια), which means perimeter.
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary)
1:39 PM • Apr 22, 2024
The first appearance of pi in the newsletter. I have an irrational fondness for pie. And pi.
#6 🤯
this is how the alphabet looks from above
– – – – – – – – · - – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
— maxy (@nicolegovbr)
2:20 AM • Apr 27, 2024
This is a bit silly but a great example of how changing our perspective on everyday things is a fun and rewarding experience.
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Harshal