J.R.R. Tolkien's original first page for Lord of the Rings 1937 pic.twitter.com/lt88v8eE38
— History Lovers Club (@historylvrsclub) May 31, 2018
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Geologist by education & Curious by nature ... attempting to make this blog my social media hub .... Posts would be mainly about #Space #Science #Sports #Travel #Geology #Geophysics #Beauty ;-)
J.R.R. Tolkien's original first page for Lord of the Rings 1937 pic.twitter.com/lt88v8eE38
— History Lovers Club (@historylvrsclub) May 31, 2018
#ThinSectionThursday A retrogressed metabasite from Loch Duich, showing very nice crystals of zoisite (greyish), in white albite (replacing a former Ca-rich plagioclase feldspar), plus epidote, quartz and hornblende. FOV 2mm wide. pic.twitter.com/wfejt09z9x
— John Faithfull (@FaithfullJohn) May 31, 2018
A 59 million year old gabbro from central Arran, viewed under a microscope. Colourful pyroxenes, white/grey plagioclase, and black magnetite. #ThinSectionThursday pic.twitter.com/dOE8gaQ0Sj
— ArranGeopark (@arrangeopark) May 31, 2018
Since @pmoindia has arrived in Indonesia🇮🇩 & good maritime⚓️ relations will be a oft-heard phrase over next 24 hours, here is a short thread of my story on the actual status of delineating the maritime boundary between the two neighbours. 1/n
— Devirupa Mitra (@DevirupaM) May 29, 2018
The Permian-to-Houston crude spread widens and widens and widens. Chart is Midland WTI-MEH #oil spread at -$21.75 a barrel this morning. More on @TheTerminal #OOTT pic.twitter.com/d3NZK0AUFx
— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas2) May 31, 2018
Brent-WTI spread breaks above $10 a barrel for first time since 2015 - while at Midland, TX there's a further $10-$12.50 discount.
— David Sheppard (@OilSheppard) May 31, 2018
So we've got near $80 crude and real-time simultaneous test of if shale drillers really can thrive at $55-$60
https://t.co/SbJLtlc7cu #OOTT
Officially launching https://t.co/SqbQgo2asx open source today! Start to make beautiful maps! Amazing project by https://t.co/0qBg6hXhvX @uberEng #keplergl https://t.co/1RxdNY7vbl pic.twitter.com/mGaqSxJevH
— Shan He (@heshan_cheri) May 29, 2018
#sorrynotsorry pic.twitter.com/leuoSTvVhR
— Namaah (@The_HappyNoodle) May 30, 2018
Do not lick the lava in Hawaii! pic.twitter.com/4Xcr3ggA9c
— Antonio Paris (@AntonioParis) May 30, 2018
Vegetarian slider... tempura avocado in coffee hoi sin pic.twitter.com/fUvucXxXMU
— Michael O'Hare (@hairmetalchef) May 29, 2018
3/3 We will add an acct deletion feature on priority, and roll out the change within a few days. Promise to update this thread when the feature is enabled. Rest assured, we will never hold our users hostage for any reason whatsoever.
— Sameer.Nigam (@_sameernigam) May 29, 2018
Folds and fractures in obsidian #2 with @ShelbyIsom and @StuartKenderes pic.twitter.com/5B1sDKrXq1
— Graham Andrews (@WVURockDoc) May 29, 2018
So I saw Swan Lake today at @RoyalOperaHouse having never been to a ballet before and I can think of no more appropriate way to celebrate than recount the experience in memes because I am a millennial.
— Thomas Ryalls (@BoyAndPen) May 28, 2018
As YV Reddy used to say - Decoupling is conceptually convenient but inherently illogical. https://t.co/0snahfwwYj
— Ira Dugal (@dugalira) May 28, 2018
All those who wanted the PowerPoint of my presentation on Moving Averages at @Traderscarnival #TradersCarnival2018 and the FB Video link by @BloombergQuint #BQLive https://t.co/9x7TbgvSwK
— MarketWisdombyNFidai (@nsfidai) May 28, 2018
IMAGE: Mamoudou Gassama with French president Macron, who offered Mamoudou the French citizenship and a job with the fire brigade. pic.twitter.com/TiUe67eW0e
— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) May 28, 2018
In just one match, Sergio Ramos dislocated Mo Salah’s shoulder, elbowed Loris Karius prior to his goalkeeping mistakes and indulged in this disgraceful display of play acting.
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) May 26, 2018
He’s the football embodiment of winning ugly.#RealLiverpool #Ramos #uclfinal pic.twitter.com/himTqKI6r9
Management:
— Samir Arora (@Iamsamirarora) May 28, 2018
We believe worst is over
After 1 qtr: We think worst is over.
Next qtr: We have analyzed, worst is over.
Next qtr: We believed worst would be over by now.
Next qtr: We thought worst would be over by now
Next qtr: We have analyzed-worst must be over by now.
2300 Years Old ( 3rd century B.C ) Ring Stone , Taxila
— indianhistorypics (@IndiaHistorypic) May 27, 2018
The Inner Face of This Stone Is Finely Carved In Low Relief With Female Figures
( Photo - Victoria and Albert Museum, London/ @V_and_A ) pic.twitter.com/EnoZdQd54u
Haven’t really slept until now... the scenes are still running through my head again and again... I'm infinitely sorry to my teammates, for you fans, and for all the staff. I know that I messed it up with the two mistakes and let you all down... pic.twitter.com/w9GixPiQDC
— Loris Karius (@LorisKarius) May 27, 2018
That's six races in a row that Verstappen has had a crash or other similar incident. He keeps saying he doesn't need to change anything. Reality would suggest otherwise
— Andrew Benson (@andrewbensonf1) May 26, 2018
1/ While back, a friend had a chance to lick a toad that would make him see God. He’s never drank or smoked anything in his life.
— Kamal Ravikant (@kamalravikant) May 24, 2018
The experience he’d been offered was thousands of years old. Practiced by indigenous tribes. Everyone I know who’d done it was better for it.
Schiff after Thursday’s briefings: "Nothing we heard today has changed our view that there is no evidence to support any allegation that the FBI or any intelligence agency placed a spy in the Trump campaign, or otherwise failed to follow appropriate procedures and protocols." pic.twitter.com/pfJbC8WWik
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 25, 2018
<Elon Musk Tweets a pitch for a bad Black Mirror episode>
— SarcasticRover (@SarcasticRover) May 24, 2018
All The Smart People: “Ah, yes... I see. Brilliant and necessary and not at all the angry ramblings of a billionaire having a tantrum.”
Inertia at work.. pic.twitter.com/rkhYyVns7Y
— DaftScholar (@DaftScholar) May 24, 2018
Polarized-light photomicrograph of a carpet-looking thin section of Agate from Brazil, with layers of extremely fine-grained microcrystalline quartz (chalcedony). Width c. 2 mm.#wednesdaythoughts #science #geology #rocks #minerals #crystals #gemstones pic.twitter.com/Y7CHvpaNyB
— micROCKScopica (@micROCKScopica) May 23, 2018
Love this graphic from @HawaiiNuiBrew pic.twitter.com/ubyroplFYr
— Dr. Samantha Montano (@SamLMontano) May 23, 2018
Long live print pic.twitter.com/fXDMXvPUJK
— Georgi Kantchev (@georgikantchev) May 22, 2018
In 1981 Commercial Airline Vayudoot Operated Flights to Many Airports/Airfields of Arunachal Pradesh pic.twitter.com/kulzihK6rs
— indianhistorypics (@IndiaHistorypic) May 22, 2018
To summarise:
— Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin) May 21, 2018
- Neither Kilauea nor Bardarbunga are/were emitting any SO2 or HCl into the stratosphere
- There are no CFCs involved at all
- Neither had any impact on stratospheric ozone
- Even if they had, the resulting ozone depletion would cause a slight *cooling*!
The evolution of the #UK #electricity #grid from January 1st 2012, midnight to May 18th 2018, midnight. Represented in 5-minute intervals for main technologies (Coal, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Renewables). Share totals to 100%. Import / Exports included. 1/ pic.twitter.com/GVJqTbjAb3
— Christopher Clack (@clacky007) May 20, 2018
China is already buying record volumes of U.S. crude #oil and refined petroleum products (crude alone recently has been running at ~350-400k b/d rate) -- chart via @EIAgov #OOTT pic.twitter.com/SHTHrZmGNf
— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas2) May 20, 2018
The first peer-reviewed study of bitcoin’s energy consumption confirms our fears:
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) May 17, 2018
Bitcoin’s energy consumption is growing at 20% *per month* and is effectively erasing decades of progress on renewable energy.https://t.co/JnYEq3uExi
Abandoned meander loop in an incised river channel I spotted from the airplane window yesterday: pic.twitter.com/2UxaEvB5gm
— Callan Bentley (@callanbentley) May 18, 2018
Using lines written as protest against imposition of emergency by the same party! #irony😂😂😂 https://t.co/PxqWQJZ9cJ
— Nishant Kumar (@NishantSKumar) May 18, 2018
No way?!?!?! pic.twitter.com/BvqJHgC9Bw
— Kevin Pietersen (@KP24) May 16, 2018
I've got several narrowband methane filters from this dataset that are pretty neat, but I just tried combining them and balancing the color based on Saturn's cloud tops, and pic.twitter.com/9zJ7Fq89ql
— Judy Schmidt (@SpaceGeck) May 16, 2018
I want to work here. pic.twitter.com/6PHbHGszYE
— Academia ɐɹnɔsqO (@AcademiaObscura) May 13, 2018
A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog pic.twitter.com/bnzPZbPc7r
— Shibes 🐕 (@ShibeTown) May 11, 2018
Geotwitter, I heard you like meanders, so nature put meanders inside meanders so you can meander while you meander. This is a quite surprising bit of fractal meandering pic.twitter.com/zXp50gknHW
— Jesse Pisel (@geologyjesse) May 11, 2018
CBS News buys 4 used photocopiers at random.
— Russ Kick @ AltGov2 (@thememoryhole2) May 10, 2018
Like every digital copier since 2002, they have hard drives that store images of every copy, every scan, every fax.
They pull the images from the hard drives....https://t.co/HqyPF6pC1w
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Hi God, I will be happy to help you https://t.co/C6PG8LqJ2n
— Elliot Alderson @ #io18 (@fs0c131y) May 10, 2018
US nearing net zero oil imports. And seeing huge increases in short-cycle shale supply. But still must call the Saudis to help ensure price stability during a disruption. That’s the unique power of spare capacity. Dominance is about more than output levels https://t.co/16rha5NIlS pic.twitter.com/XJJUE203zi
— Jason Bordoff (@JasonBordoff) May 9, 2018
This is the full rotation of the Moon as seen by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter @LRO_NASA pic.twitter.com/ivp2Jtd6aF
— Rocket Ron 🚀 (@RonBaalke) May 9, 2018
This is amazing! All the land in the solar system. via @xkcdComic https://t.co/oERqyv1Ogb pic.twitter.com/NikdMN3gqF
— Ekbal Hussain (@ekh_sci) May 8, 2018
Check out the time-lapse video below created by our Astromaterials scientists using a sequence of shots taken by astronauts onboard the @Space_Station during a pass over the Sahara Desert to Central Asia. Details: https://t.co/xBWVuAfAGa. #AstronautPhotography #NASAEarth #ISS pic.twitter.com/mwOIwu9x52
— NASA Astromaterials (@Astromaterials) May 7, 2018
“Let’s go Gary, this shit ain’t worth it 🐾”pic.twitter.com/5xVzt4bAWD
— UnsilentMajority 🌹 (@The_UnSilent_) May 5, 2018
Saturation adjustment, local contrast enhancement, and sharpening of satellite data https://t.co/hSTRBymfAy final post in my series on #OpenSource image processing.
— Rob Simmon (@rsimmon) May 7, 2018
Field photos just in: HVO geologists collect samples of spatter for laboratory analysis; information gained from these samples will shed light on what's happening inside Kīlauea Volcano. https://t.co/z1AKsN270G pic.twitter.com/iW9KFbT6uX
— USGS Volcanoes🌋 (@USGSVolcanoes) May 7, 2018
Buy candy for $5, sell it for $4 https://t.co/gX5k5rvTbk
— Quoth the Raven (@QTRResearch) May 5, 2018
India is a peculiar country. What is obvious may actually not be. So here is a candy story. Our own. Way back in 1993, we loved candy makers too. Not one but two. Parry confectionery & Ravalgaon. The market size was small. We had huge size of opportunity. Capacities grew.
— Shyam Sekhar (@shyamsek) May 6, 2018
The Blue Dragon River in Portugal. pic.twitter.com/safvTIQnsx
— History Lovers Club (@historylvrsclub) May 6, 2018
The US Dollar is the most used currency in the world... by far. The Euro or the Yuan literally cast no shadow pic.twitter.com/DlpTs70w0z
— Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) May 5, 2018
At your fingertips: Explore Mars up close using augmented reality https://t.co/LRF4G07C08 pic.twitter.com/kaMKYapl0g
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 6, 2018
Homogenized pictures: Wartime Helsinki and its modern-day counterpart pic.twitter.com/H8et79rTvJ
— History Lovers Club (@historylvrsclub) May 6, 2018
57 years ago today: Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space. pic.twitter.com/FRwHNyugs6
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) May 6, 2018
InSight is very likely to last longer than its 1-year prime mission, because it's landing closer to equator. Its solar panels are big enough for a 1-year mission even if they get covered with dust. If the winds are kind & clean solar panels, InSight could last a LONG time. https://t.co/CGhkZd6SnL
— Emily Lakdawalla (@elakdawalla) May 5, 2018
And some baby normal faults to finish the day off, with bonus domino structures! 😍 pic.twitter.com/mSh1A7IS8t
— Dr. Zoe Mildon (@ZoeMildon) May 5, 2018
Remember this chart when the financial msm says they couldn’t see it coming..... pic.twitter.com/fmiGduksAx
— . (@OccupyWisdom) May 5, 2018
Take a peek at Marie Curie's notebook from 1899-1902, containing notes from experiments on radioactive substances. The notebook is still radioactive and will be for 1,500 years. Photo: Wellcome Images. #NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/jHe6t7EgRX
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) May 5, 2018
FUN FACT:
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) May 5, 2018
The Pitch Drop Experiment started in 1930 is the longest running lab experiment. It measures the flow of a piece of a highly viscous liquid, pitch. Pitch flows at a very low rate, taking several years to form a single drop. To date, only nine drops have fallen. pic.twitter.com/3d6yiUhhZW
I'm headed to #Mars with an amazing suite of science instruments that will give the Red Planet a thorough checkup! Get the scoop on my journey: https://t.co/G04gF3dp7E pic.twitter.com/CcsYijJXcm
— NASAInSight (@NASAInSight) May 5, 2018
The last week of earthquakes around Kīlauea. Can see swarm migrating east to location of Thursday’s fissure eruption in Leilani Estates (yellow), then activity seems to shift west after big M6.9 yesterday evening (orange/red)? pic.twitter.com/9je9vlljPt
— Chris Rowan (@Allochthonous) May 5, 2018
Own processing of a Sentinel-1 interferogram showing deformation (from 19th March to 1st May 2018) before the current Kilauea eruption.
— Pablo J. González (@pabloj_gonzalez) May 4, 2018
Note: Same interferogram (and essentially same information) as already provided by HVO USGS, differences due to refined InSAR processing. pic.twitter.com/3ARmvbkDTS
What can you make from one barrel of oil? (hint: a lot) #oott pic.twitter.com/XKUhuFDT5F
— Georgi Kantchev (@georgikantchev) May 5, 2018
Just back from Pu’u O’o vent this made my heart stop... yesterday it was full of lava, today... it’s empty. As our pilot from Paradise Helicopters put it, it went somewhere... 😔 pic.twitter.com/9THLy8i9vd
— Lynn Kawano (@LynnKawano) May 4, 2018
WAIT. FOR. IT. pic.twitter.com/rJl8lHMbwa
— Jan Freedman (@JanFreedman) May 4, 2018
Why those obituaries for diesel fuel need ripping up https://t.co/Cny17OR9Hr
— FT Energy (@ftenergy) May 4, 2018
Vinaash kaaley, Vipreet buddhi. He has lost it. Plain and simple. If you can't take questions related to your financials and capex, better delist pic.twitter.com/4VuUSm42Mb
— Shankar Sharma (@1shankarsharma) May 4, 2018
#BREAKING: Incredible new video shows the Leilani Estates eruption on Hawaii Island picked up again earlier this morning – this video was captured at around 3:30 a.m. MORE: https://t.co/ftqbVPRCLJ pic.twitter.com/nLRmFUOBKY
— Hawaii News Now (@HawaiiNewsNow) May 4, 2018
A new $20M #nuclear reactor that could eventually power #space exploration has passed its full-power test at #Nevada lab; can generate 3kW now but plans are to scale to 10kW and include 4-5 of them to be used when #solar is ineffective in spacehttps://t.co/wZsWKmLhfb#SpaceDay
— Chester Energy & Policy (@ChesterEnergy) May 4, 2018
So Wenger fails to win a European trophy for the 22nd consecutive year.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) May 3, 2018
And we'll end up 6th in the League, his worst finish in 22 years. (Last year was his previous worst..)
The harsh truth is he stayed way too long & wrecked his legacy. #afc pic.twitter.com/lfZjsFuSpo
A dog in China accidentally drives a small vehicle through a shop window pic.twitter.com/I03SiS18Mw
— Sky News (@SkyNews) May 3, 2018
At $30/b, most shale companies can survive, but they cannot grow.
— Anas Alhajji (@anasalhajji) May 3, 2018
Shale companies' operating cost per barrel: notice the decrease in operating costs#shale #oil #costs
Source: Al Rajhi Capital: https://t.co/EwG6b0oAI5 pic.twitter.com/ygkoGjRB5N
Sun (set or rise?) of chalcedony in a brazilian agate.#artsci #rocks #minerals #crystals #geology #colors #artwork #abstractart #gemstones #jewels pic.twitter.com/mOGgDYcAXx
— micROCKScopica (@micROCKScopica) May 2, 2018
This InSAR velocity map for London is mesmerizing https://t.co/PTP8nHjMxe pic.twitter.com/VtC0fTjp9x
— Pablo J. González (@pabloj_gonzalez) May 1, 2018
he Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, commonly known as San Siro, is a football stadium in the San Siro district of Milan, Italy. Its spiral walkways are spiral shaped and automated and give you the illusion they spin while they do not https://t.co/jgAJbhrAHz pic.twitter.com/nOXi2tLiZf
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 1, 2018
Fascinating map shows Crossrail's route across London through tiny deformations in the ground level caused by the tunnelling.https://t.co/QdU3xtCndR pic.twitter.com/MrjtsZfstl
— IanVisits (@ianvisits) April 30, 2018
Well if the banks swindle you on the forex - with Rs. 4 buy/sell spreads on the dollar (WTF!) it makes total sense for peopel to simply exchange with each other.
— Deepak Shenoy (@deepakshenoy) April 30, 2018
Fretting about Peak Oil in 1926 --> https://t.co/KYUIF8hk6q pic.twitter.com/Kn5IAx6Yxe
— Michael E. Webber (@MichaelEWebber) April 29, 2018
The number of reporters that understand the bond market and RBI action is abysmally low
— Deepak Shenoy (@deepakshenoy) May 1, 2018
It has never been easy for small businesses to raise capital in India but MSMEs have found a welcome source of liquidity, and that too at a fair price in TReDS exchanges. My story - https://t.co/xAZbPu0qHD via @TheKenWeb
— Sidhartha Shukla (@shukla_05sid) May 1, 2018
Always wished you could swim through the 220km long Perth #submarinecanyon? Now you can! Kind of :) @GeoscienceAus have made this lovely fly-through. https://t.co/RQNAmd62Jz
— Kathryn Amos (@sediAus) May 1, 2018