Scientist, Educator, Author | New book: In Search of a Theory of Everything
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Congratulations to Destiny King from @bloomfieldedu for their winning NCUR Presentation in Natural and Physical Sciences. Join us on April 11 at 2PM ET for the #NCUR2022 Closing Plenary with @LongmireAvital as we celebrate all our winners.
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Moongazers unite! The longest partial lunar eclipse of this century will occur overnight, peaking early Nov. 19 at 4:03am ET (09:03 UTC).
Find out what parts of the world will be able to see it: go.nasa.gov/3wYo1wu
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What's up in the night sky for May? 🔭
Find out how to see all of our solar system's rocky inner planets in the middle of the month, & mark your calendars for a May 26 supermoon eclipse: go.nasa.gov/34hp376
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A friend has just shown me this book "Calculus made easy", published in 1914, and I think it's got one of the best prologues I've ever seen. This is *exactly* what textbooks should be doing. And they should all be honest about how terrifying the topic names are too.
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Charles Darwin was born #OnThisDay 212 years ago.
To celebrate #DarwinDay this year, discover ten things you didn't know about the father of evolution: bit.ly/3qevqUp
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Malaria “mal + air” = “bad air,” Until late 1800s folks thought infectious disease was the result of evil vapors. Fresh air was the cure. Microbes made this idea ridiculous.
Aerosol transmission of covid operates like a vapor and makes this ancient idea more respectable.
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How #ethical is human gene editing? Is it a slippery slope? Explore in the latest OUPblog post by John H. Evans, author of 'The Human Gene Editing Debate'.
#Sociology #GenomeEditing #CRISPR bit.ly/3kGvx7I
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Cellular Analogies
The cell's hard drive (DNA; blue), the cell's power supply (mitochondria; yellow) and the cell's skeleton (actin filaments; purple) photographed using a SIM microscope.
#CellBiology #microscopy
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On this World First Aid Day, we're honouring the occasion with a quote from one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine, ancient Greek physician Hippocrates: bit.ly/3hDveKt #QotW
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On this International Day of Friendship, we're celebrating with a quote from ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus: bit.ly/2YJlc1u #QotW
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"In their brand-new democracy, the people of ancient Athens knew there was one form of government they never wanted to suffer through again: tyranny." Paul Woodruff looks for lessons for leaders from the plays of Ancient Greece. bit.ly/3jXogAW
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Could reading the philosophy of Aristotle or Bertrand Russell help you better understand the physics of Einstein and Hawking? @dnphysics explains: bit.ly/3hxZ8ij
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Should motion be considered an illusion of the senses? From the author of ‘In Search of a Theory of Everything: The Philosophy Behind Physics’, discover the paradox that argues the verifiability of motion with this blog. bit.ly/3iGXegS #physics #paradox @dnphysics
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How well do you know your #QuantumMechanics? Test yourself with this quiz from @JimBaggott, whose book "Quantum Reality" publishes in the UK this week! bit.ly/2YbNkLF
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Welcome aboard the @SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft!
In this video from space, @AstroBehnken and @Astro_Doug reveal the name of their capsule: Endeavour. Take a look inside as the crew continues their journey to the @Space_Station: youtu.be/llbIzbOStt4
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Teach your children or students about galaxies, nebulas and planets, such as the Lagoon Nebula—an example of a turbulent stellar nursery full of birth and destruction 😲, with Hubble’s most famous images: bit.ly/2WvepsV Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI. #LearnFromHome
