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Six STEM Tweets - July 4 2024
Starry fireworks, Darwin's rough day and more
Harshal Chhaya
July 04, 2024
Six STEM Tweets
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A happy July 4th to everyone!
#1
🎶Baby, you're a firework! 🎆
Did you know that fireworks are made of star stuff? From the oxygen & potassium that help fireworks burn to the aluminum that makes sparklers sparkle, most of the elements in the universe wouldn’t be here without stars.🌟
nasa.tumblr.com/post/655788678…
— NASA STEM (@NASASTEM)
3:24 PM • Jul 3, 2024
#2
the last time that every human was on earth was october 31, 2000.
ever since then, we’ve always had at least one person in space.
so if you were born after that date, you’ve never been on earth with everyone at once.— Jasmine 🌌🔭 (@astro_jaz)
3:51 PM • Jul 3, 2024
#3
🤣
#4
Bracket Symbols xkcd.com/2954
— Randall Munroe (@xkcd)
5:59 AM • Jul 4, 2024
#5
Even the most famous scientists have rough days. Charles Darwin, for example wrote: “But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything.”
— World of Engineering (@engineers_feed)
8:40 PM • Jul 2, 2024
Famous scientists, they’re just like us! 😀
#6
76 years ago this week Claude Shannon ushered in the field of information theory with his paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", which has been cited over 100,000 times: bit.ly/2H0ZxvR (v/@TheSIAMNews)
— MIT CSAIL (@MIT_CSAIL)
4:30 PM • Jul 2, 2024
Is this the most impactful paper of the 20th century?
Definitely the top 3.
What do you think?
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Harshal