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Six STEM Tweets
Six tweets that celebrate engineering and all things STEM.
I scroll so you don’t have to.
The elements of yesterday’s date - June 4 2024 - had a mathematical connection:
6 × 4 = 24
And thanks to the commutative property, it works even in other parts of the world (that use more logical structure to their dates)
4 × 6 = 24
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#1
Tumble me down, and I will sit Upon my ruins, (smiling yet:)
— this kind of world (@mywholeentire)
5:30 PM • Jun 4, 2024
The first use of punctuation to show emotion was in 1648.
1648!
These “new fangled things” are centuries old!
#2
After eating 200g of blueberries I started wondering about the small star shaped hole at the top. Took the remaining 50g of berries to the workshop and checked.
Turns out, all blueberries, independent of the size of the actual fruit, will fit a standard T30 TORX® screwdriver.… x.com/i/web/status/1…— Dull Men’s Club (@BestOfDullMen)
9:04 AM • Jun 4, 2024
I love learning about which screwdriver fits which berries. 😂
Next week on #SixSTEMTweets - which saw is best for cutting tomatoes…
#3
🤣
I have heard of people padding their resumes with something similar. I know teachers putting booby traps in their assignments to detect when students use GenAI tools without permission.
This is the next step.
We definitely live in interesting times.
#4
The bird based colour system that eventually became Pantone. An effort to describe the diversity of birds led to one of the first modern colour systems ….this is wonderful. ( well I think so)
— helen warlow (@HWarlow)
4:05 PM • Jun 4, 2024
Pantone colors are the default method to specify colors for physical products. The goal is to have accurate, reproducible colors regardless of equipment used to produce the pigment.
The Wikipedia page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantone - has some really interesting details on their “color of the year” campaign and on their intellectual property claims
#5
This joke is from a math department.
— Math Lady Hazel 🇦🇷 (@mathladyhazel)
6:22 PM • May 25, 2024
This is what the graph actually looks like. More like a stylish, floating staircase.
#6
JUNE 4: #OnThisDay in 1962, Neil Armstrong submitted his application to become a NASA astronaut.
Armstrong was officially selected in the second group of astronauts three months later.
— Armstrong Air & Space Museum (@ArmstrongSpace)
2:56 PM • Jun 4, 2024
Some of the smartest, bravest folks of their generation!
That’s it for this issue.
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Let’s all celebrate science and engineering and curiosity.
Best wishes,
Harshal