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- Six STEM Tweets - July 14 2024
Six STEM Tweets - July 14 2024
Tiny transistors, scary Aussie plants and more
Six STEM Tweets
Six tweets that celebrate engineering and all things STEM.
Welcome new friends!
And a happy Bastille Day to our French friends.
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I scroll so you don’t have to.
I got a few responses to my question but I am curious to know more of your experiences.
What mnemonic did you learn for the colors of a rainbow? (FWIW, I learned it as VIBGYOR - but with a soft G, as if the color is JREEN 🙄 )
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#1
🇰🇷 Korean researchers fabricated a transistor with a gate length of 4 angstroms.
— 🌿 lithos (@lithos_graphein)
4:31 PM • Jul 8, 2024
An angstrom is 10-10 m, so these are 0.4 nm in size.
Wow! 😵💫
This is an early proof of concept but that’s how engineering works. I am really interested to see how/if/when they can do this reliably and at scale.
Even if this remains a proof of concept, there’s so much to learn!
#2
was researching poison ivy and TIL australia has not just wildly poisonous animals but also a plant so hilariously poisonous i am hardly believing it is real
it's very much like the australians to just go ahead and call it "gympie gympie" too
— yatharth in LA (@AskYatharth)
11:35 PM • Jul 7, 2024
This sounds terrifying!
Between the spiders and the drop-bears and now this - I am super impressed by the sheer bravery of all Australians!
#3
Orion and the Geminids
— Space 8K (@uhd2020)
1:51 AM • Jul 14, 2024
Such images are very grounding (pun unintended) - they show how vast the cosmos is! 🤩
#4
Fermat's Last Theorem is not applicable to matrices
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary)
4:02 PM • Jul 13, 2024
Now you know!
The next time someone brings up Fermat’s Last Theorem in casual conversation, you can smugly say “It doesn’t apply to matrices, you know!” 😆
#5
#6
Who was the healthiest physicist of all time?
Max Plank.
— Sidin (@sidin)
1:09 PM • Jul 13, 2024
Here’s another related one:
What did the subatomic quantum pirate say to the theoretical physicist?
Walk the Planck
The good thing about Planck jokes is that they are all very small.
That’s it for this issue.
Hit ‘reply’ to tell me what you think.
And hit ‘forward’ to share with your friends and family.
Let’s all celebrate science and engineering and curiosity.
Best wishes,
Harshal