Folks, I can't tell you how big a deal it will be when we finally have complex electronic systems that can operate at Venus surface temperatures and pressures.
— Prof. Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) April 30, 2021
Game-changing. And we're getting there:https://t.co/5PO99UxTaE pic.twitter.com/AGySDu0FXH
Complex zoning in a large plagioclase crystal in a basalt from Etna volcano, Sicily Italy. XPL image, 10x (Field of view 2 mm)#alexstrekeisen #thinsection #etna #etnavolcano #plagioclase #basalt pic.twitter.com/5wSOsN1Ngn
— Alexstrekeisen (@alexstrekeisen) April 30, 2021
#Glacier ice is a fluid!
— Matthias Huss (@matthias_huss) April 30, 2021
Flow of Triftgletscher, Central Switzerland, over a 1-year period based on a @VAW_glaciology webcam pic.twitter.com/hgw37s3Gf8
If you acknowledge a problem, you become responsible for it.
— Haresh Chawla (@hchawlah) April 30, 2021
That’s what holding everything back.
Jurassic Park Cinemap shows characters journeys across the island. Source: https://t.co/85z8D8er8R pic.twitter.com/EPNr5EQRaz
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) April 29, 2021
1. Tether "asserts" that it holds US$40 Billion...
— Simon Mikhailovich (@S_Mikhailovich) April 29, 2021
2. A Cayman firm (w/3 professionals) issues an "assurance opinion" that Tether's "assertion" is "fairly stated."
3. Any questions? https://t.co/309huHCxgS
Large omphacite crystal (green at PPL and with high interference colors at XPL) and small garnet (Pink at PPL and isotropic at XPL) in a eclogite from Voltri massif Liguria region Italy. PPL and XPL image, 2x (Field of view 7 mm)#alexstrekeisen #ThinSectionThursday pic.twitter.com/wrWX4QglHd
— Alexstrekeisen (@alexstrekeisen) April 29, 2021
The sand wave fields of the Glassgorman Banks, off the coast of #Arklow in the Irish Sea 😍 pic.twitter.com/a962FRlDD7
— Aileen Bohan (@captainaileen) April 29, 2021
World's hottest rock? An absolutely pure 100% olivine adcumulate dunite, Fo94, from the komatiite sequence at Wildara, Western Australia. 2700 million years old and fresh as a daisy. About 2 cm across. #ThinSectionThursday pic.twitter.com/hSsCSN4bSj
— SteveBFreo (@SteveBFreo) April 29, 2021
A new, higher quality image of my personal favourite olivine crystal, who appears to be demonstrating rather nicely that it's ok to be having a bad day/week/month/year. #thinsectionthursday FOV ~ 4 mm pic.twitter.com/d4UqoY8Ro2
— Adam Jeffery (@Agpaitic_Adam) April 29, 2021
40 days and counting for the Geldingadalir eruption. It’s a real “pinch me in the arm” moment every time you spot the volcanic plume while walking or driving around Reykjavík. This is my “desktop” map I update almost daily as things progress. pic.twitter.com/dmQNQeJbiC
— Ragnar Heiðar Þrastarson (@RagnarHeidar) April 28, 2021
In business school, I studied corporate finance, valuation and strategy when I should have been studying social media, memes and crypto pumping.
— Douglas A. Boneparth (@dougboneparth) April 28, 2021
A general reminder that you can't solve a scarce supply problem with technology. All it does is mislead people into thinking that it's the tech that's the proximate problem, not the supply and logistics.
— Krish Ashok (@krishashok) April 28, 2021
Photo of Perseverance from Ingenuity (left). The last time a rover was photographed from the surface of Mars was Sojourner (taken by Pathfinder) in 1997 (right). pic.twitter.com/z3BKGssiwU
— Arko (@arkorobotics) April 28, 2021
Surprising my mom after not seeing her for 12 months pic.twitter.com/BEcmiKFGqO
— Brent Terhune (@BrentTerhune) April 28, 2021
Dr. Rajendra Bharud, administrator in Nandurbar, Maharashtra, is an absolute star. He set up the district's first oxygen plant in Sep 2020 in ANTICIPATION of a second wave based on what he was seeing in US and Brazil. Nandurbar's cases also falling now.https://t.co/epiiBkn65t
— Chinmay Tumbe (@ChinmayTumbe) April 28, 2021
Ed Balls https://t.co/hMhU9OzS15
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 28, 2021
Pretty cool video showing what gravity is like on other planets.
— Matt (@Booster_Buddies) April 26, 2021
Source Reddit pic.twitter.com/eWi9oqvfiz
In July 1981 Microsoft bought all rights to 86-DOS, otherwise known as QDOS, for Quick and Dirty Operating System, from Seattle Computer Products for $50,000
— Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) April 28, 2021
Those rare ones who fully comprehend vanaprastha - phase of retreating from life's grasping neediness. pic.twitter.com/qQggYgPc99
— Amruta Patil (@hathoric) April 28, 2021
“If we do it, it’s personalized ads. If others do it, it’s tracking!” pic.twitter.com/GQFbOG5xkg
— Sar Haribhakti (@sarthakgh) April 27, 2021
When all the nerds starting copying @elonmusk and added laser eyes to their profile pics he was selling into them. You couldn't make this shit up. 😂🤣
— Assad Tannous (@AsennaWealth) April 27, 2021
"Sagenitic" biotite (hexagonal basal section) with needlelike inclusions of rutile and prismatic apatite crystals (colorless) in a rhyolite from Greece. PPL image , 10x (Fov = 2mm).#alexstrekeisen #biotite #Greece pic.twitter.com/dxAEL1WJFr
— Alexstrekeisen (@alexstrekeisen) April 27, 2021
Hi Twitter, I’m Tim Manning, the White House COVID-19 Supply Coordinator. There’s been a lot of confusion around the use of the Defense Production Act as it relates to the global supply chain for COVID-19 treatment. Let me try and break this down simply as possible: 1/8
— Tim Manning (@timmy315) April 26, 2021
I did one. The history of how Wall Street has seen Bitcoin. pic.twitter.com/kkZ1DZ65Zx
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) April 26, 2021
Staurolite crystal (Gold yellow at PPL), ilmenite (balck), tourmaline (green at PPL), musvovite and quartz in a sialic amphibolite from Posada Asinara shear zone, Sardinia (Italy). PPL and XPL image, 10x (Field of view = 2mm)#alexstrekeisen #staurolite #thinsection #sardinia pic.twitter.com/eCIamkY5g1
— Alexstrekeisen (@alexstrekeisen) April 26, 2021
It's a miracle penguins haven't gone extinct already 😂 #WorldPenguinDay pic.twitter.com/6FY3Qlin9c
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) April 25, 2021
Zorita, a burlesque dancer from the 30's & 40’s, and her famous "half and half" routine. She dressed one half of her body as a groom and the other as a bride. pic.twitter.com/LqjPeQtLuZ
— Diane Doniol-Valcroze (@ddoniolvalcroze) April 25, 2021
And as I said, the issue of pharma patents is one I'll rant about all day every day, and it certainly wouldn't be a bad thing if Pfizer and J&J joined Moderna in waiving patent enforcement, but this isn't a scenario where it's going to do much because that's not the bottleneck.
— Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ (@KEBrightbill) April 25, 2021
Periods of the year when average UK temperature is the same. Another animation by @neilrkaye. Lovely piece! Source: https://t.co/knm9TO3EpW pic.twitter.com/eQu5yUW6Sl
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) April 25, 2021
Don’t be misled—US is not withholding raw materials for any current vaccine in India. “Covishield” (aka AstraZeneca) is not affected.
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 25, 2021
The raw material shortage only affects “Covovax” (Novavax) which has not yet been approved anyway. #COVID19 #CovidIndiapic.twitter.com/NEEb8p2njh
Dr Jitendra Devrari, the sole microbiologist in Almora has been working non stop for 16 hours daily for the last 6 months to keep testing going in the district with his lab team 🙏🙏 https://t.co/RAqkGLxSeU
— Anant Bhan (@AnantBhan) April 25, 2021
Thread:
— Raj Bhagat P #Mapper4Life (@rajbhagatt) April 25, 2021
I had earlier posted that I am not confident about Covid Nos & few asked explanation
Attaching satellite images where SWIR bands have picked up fire signals in crematoriums(orange colour). In most cases, this is 1st time detected or ten times intensity detected in past pic.twitter.com/aQZP9V2SdQ
No way! 🤯 pic.twitter.com/62UF9c7GBw
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) April 24, 2021
Map shows every Roman settlement and nothing else. Source: https://t.co/x1ABKXffi8 pic.twitter.com/4e8nL8owrg
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) April 23, 2021
If climate activists wanted to crash Bitcoin, what could they do? e.g., is it possible to DDoS the miners, trigger unintended forks by splitting the network, etc.
— Simon DeDeo (@SimonDeDeo) April 23, 2021
Earth’s crust mineralogy drives hotspots for intraterrestrial life | #Geology #GeologyPage
— Geology Page (@GeologyPage) April 23, 2021
Distributed throughout the deep subsurface, these biofilms could represent 20-80% of the total bacterial and archaeal biomass in the continental ...
Read more : https://t.co/U1git1IUgH
“Geologists have learnt the hard way that you may argue with a prediction based on a model but it is unwise to argue with a rock.”
— Chris Stark (@ChiefExecCCC) April 23, 2021
Times letters: Uncertainty and the science of climate changehttps://t.co/23b614r956 pic.twitter.com/1b5yPfFsBQ
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Zydus is dystopian version of evidence based medicine, marketing useless drugs 4 needful times, classical fishing in murky waters. Bogus Viroshield mouth spray for #COVID19India, nw Virafin Interferon bcoz its worthless in Hepatitis B/C & they found market in #COVIDEmergency2021 https://t.co/TxWc2iuenU
— (Cyriac) Abby Philips (@drabbyphilips) April 23, 2021
If they do exist, primordial black holes could help make sense of a wide variety of strange observations that have so far defied explanation, writes @adamspacemann for @KnowableMag: https://t.co/EBMM3MK4Fm
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) April 22, 2021
Van Gogh brush strokes pic.twitter.com/nSOy9NqNpj
— Diane Doniol-Valcroze (@ddoniolvalcroze) April 22, 2021
There isn't a better day to kick back and learn about our planet!
— NASA (@NASA) April 22, 2021
🎙️ Put a little #EarthDay spin on your podcast playlist with our “All About Earth” @SoundCloud line up: https://t.co/Vs7iAMAbRx pic.twitter.com/RyXiCLlObO
Map shows the economic classification of EU subregions. Is that you East Germany? Source: https://t.co/tYup4aDN69 pic.twitter.com/DcBMsMINdM
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) April 22, 2021
Fibrous jadeite (grey) after plagioclase (lower part of the photo), quartz and biotite rimmed by small garnet corona in a jadeite metagranite from Monte Mucrone, Sesia-Lanzo zone, Italy. PPL and XPL image, 2x (Fov = 7mm)#alexstrekeisen #thinsectionthursday pic.twitter.com/608OFBRsqB
— Alexstrekeisen (@alexstrekeisen) April 22, 2021
🌍 Happy Earth Day! 🌎
— Dakota Smith (@weatherdak) April 22, 2021
May I present all five geostationary views of Earth. pic.twitter.com/8U5TCnS0Sr
Lumber is up +265% over the last year. It’s no wonder Cathie Wood is doing so well.
— Douglas A. Boneparth (@dougboneparth) April 22, 2021
Today I taught a whole hybrid class with my mic muted. Not a single student said anything. pic.twitter.com/SRNzTWOCa8
— Kelly Kluthe (@KlutheScience) April 21, 2021
I am getting calls from friends/ family in India about COVID. From neurosurgeons to urologists, doctors are being roped in to handle the crisis.
— Priya Sampathkumar (@PSampathkumarMD) April 21, 2021
1/ Having managed pts with COVID for the last year & having the luxury of time, here are my thoughts for those new to this battle.
— Zack Freedman - Voidstar Lab (@zackfreedman) April 21, 2021
Last week, I asked my followers to share their favorite Twitter threads
— Brian Feroldi (@BrianFeroldi) April 22, 2021
I receive tons of wonderful replies and read through them all
Here are 31 amazing threads that are well worth your time ⬇️
See this https://t.co/hu7KyY99Uz
— Krish Ashok (@krishashok) April 22, 2021
Advancements in wind turbines could cut the cost of wind energy by A LOT. This is great news for achieving a net-zero carbon future. Shoutout to my colleagues @BerkeleyLab for these amazing insights 👉 https://t.co/CuvhhMdWqa pic.twitter.com/FpQeVC1cwE
— Secretary Jennifer Granholm (@SecGranholm) April 21, 2021
Fault-bend fold formed above a small scale thrust fault propagating within a siderite layer. The siderite is evidently stronger than the surrounding carbonate rocks, which deform, on the other hand, in a ductile fashion.
— Dr. Marco Meschis (@MarcoMeschis) April 20, 2021
Source: https://t.co/F9krXC7ujfhttps://t.co/JkiXP3OI46 pic.twitter.com/qSRl3RAueS
As a result of listening to you and the wider football community over recent days we are withdrawing from the proposed Super League.
— Arsenal (@Arsenal) April 20, 2021
We made a mistake, and we apologise for it.
1/The recent California PUC ruling on reliability found that 1000MW each of geothermal and long duration storage are necessary to meet California’s climate and reliability goals. It’s at a critical part of the rulemaking process, so a THREAD on why it is so important:
— Tim Latimer (@TimMLatimer) April 20, 2021
600,000+ Number of carts on @Grofers created and waiting to check out if a lockdown was announced by the PM.
— Albinder Dhindsa (@albinder) April 20, 2021
Crypto adoption curve is very similar to internet adoption curve between 1992 and 2006...
— Remi Tetot (@TetotRemi) April 20, 2021
We are very in 1997 and we are very early...
Thank you to @woonomic who inspiring me to do this after @RaoulGMI shared with me one of his February's post.#Bitcoin #Crypto #Ethereum pic.twitter.com/ANvcx4KbA7
A fresh crater in Mars' Tharsis region, imaged by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's CTX and CRISM cameras on January 13, 2007. The crater measures ~100 m in diameter, but a halo (likely the result of an airburst prior to impact) measures more than 2.5 km across. pic.twitter.com/6ZzVz4gxH1
— 👾 Justin Cowart 👾 (@jccwrt) April 20, 2021
Pyroxene (brown, one with nice twinning), leucite (rounded and withe at PPL and isotropic at XPL) in a tephrite from Rhine Graben, germany. PPL (plane polarised light) and XPL (cross polarised light) .#thinsectionthursday #tephrite #leucite #pyroxene #germany pic.twitter.com/2cIsgAcae0
— Alexstrekeisen (@alexstrekeisen) April 20, 2021
The art of keeping a cool head, by the Iceman himself #ImolaGP 🇮🇹 #F1 pic.twitter.com/vtThpOlXva
— Formula 1 (@F1) April 20, 2021
what actual fireflies in long exposure look like. credit: takehito miyatake, kei nomiayma, spencer black pic.twitter.com/flWohUVfGo
— life neurotic with steve's issues (@fartleksburpees) April 19, 2021
JUST IN: First high-resolution video of Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter's first flight, taken by @NASAPersevere.
— Thomas Zurbuchen (@Dr_ThomasZ) April 19, 2021
During this first flight, the helicopter climbed to an altitude of 10 feet (3 meters), hovered, and then touched back down on the surface of Mars. pic.twitter.com/CnseHsOPxd
If we are living in a simulation and we get technologically advanced enough to create a simulation, then it's quite possible that the civilisation which created our simulation is a simulation.
— GuruAnaerobic (@GuruAnaerobic) April 19, 2021
attention, visible on an iceland volcano cam right now is a happy lava froghttps://t.co/qw7ww911eU pic.twitter.com/9CDhXnGMaY
— Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) April 19, 2021
Gary Neville is the people's hero right now. Unreal piece of television about the European Super League. pic.twitter.com/ypdQbdQfs7
— Football Tweet (@Football__Tweet) April 18, 2021
You wouldn’t believe what I just saw.
— NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) April 19, 2021
More images and video to come...#MarsHelicopterhttps://t.co/PLapgbHeZU pic.twitter.com/mbiOGx4tJZ
Perseverance got us to Mars. With Ingenuity, we soar higher.
— NASA JPL (@NASAJPL) April 19, 2021
The #MarsHelicopter made history today by being the first craft to achieve controlled, powered flight on a planet beyond Earth.
An animation designed by Dr James O’Donoghue at ISAS has recently hit the news! O’Donoghue shows how Saturn’s icy rings orbit the planet more rapidly the closer they are to Saturn, replicating how the planets in our Solar System orbit the Sun. Read more: https://t.co/u7UbIoRx8z pic.twitter.com/fqqyB7Tk2A
— JAXA Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (@ISAS_JAXA_EN) April 19, 2021
Gold medal-winning vaults 80 years apart (Men's Gymnastics) pic.twitter.com/F8Spx3l8zx
— Weird History (@WElRDHISTORY) April 18, 2021
In 1995 a group of NASA scientists studied the effects of various drugs on spiders, specifically on the way they weave their webs pic.twitter.com/TkUQH6Kzvs
— Weird History (@WElRDHISTORY) April 18, 2021
Geldingadalir 17/04 HD video thread
— Dan Manns 🌋 (@DJCManns) April 18, 2021
Sound on 🔊 for this video of an a'a flow slowly inching its way forwards. This type of flow is characterised by thicker and more viscous lava, which advances much more slowly than hot, low-density pahoehoe lava. pic.twitter.com/QSEcAlesdP
Geo teachers and friends: I just added my 600th aerial geology photo to my website of >4300 images, all captioned and for free download. Search "aerial" and you can see them all. https://t.co/RvNfJMxysy pic.twitter.com/LoATUekP49
— GeologyEverywherepics (@MarliMillerGeo) April 18, 2021
Crystalized Mineralogy Book 📚 pic.twitter.com/vek4HB8etY
— Geology (@geologypics) April 18, 2021
A glitch in the matrix? These vids are exactly 24 hours apart - to the second. #trailcam #gamecamera #cameratrap #tech4wildlife #moose #dejavu pic.twitter.com/jkgFK543mM
— Andrew Hendry (@EcoEvoEvoEco) April 17, 2021
Countries that have Domino's Pizza vs countries never visited by a sitting US President. Causation vs correlation. It’s a wonderful #badgeographyjoke at least. Source: https://t.co/7S73ttRatR pic.twitter.com/dU3xHrCiiv
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) April 17, 2021
𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗧
— Saral Patel (@SaralPatel) April 16, 2021
8657311088 this is toll free number of CIPLA, manufacturer of Remdesivir.
Those in need can reach out directly & the company is providing the injections directly to Hospital without any dealer etc.
Save the number, Share it with people around you in need.
source to sink pic.twitter.com/tC2LWXshYt
— Andy Emery (@AndyDoggerBank) April 16, 2021
Satellite image of Lucknow - Baikunth Dham crematorium site (13th April)
— Raj Bhagat P #Mapper4Life (@rajbhagatt) April 16, 2021
This is first time S2 SWIR bands have captured effects of fire in this crematorium - probably due to open ground funeral pyres
Stay safe everyone!
Data: @CopernicusEU @sentinel_hub Script: @Pierre_Markuse pic.twitter.com/X359Gv2VNT
Cricket and geology? Now you're talking.
— Simon Wellings (@metageologist) April 16, 2021
This glorious location in Devon, England described as "Valley of Rocks. Landscape with ancient geology and goats"
But how did it form?
1/ https://t.co/XwGAUQVag9
Tweets like these make me respect Wasim Jaffer's sense of humour so much more. https://t.co/oSiy6GxbJG
— RandomCricketPhotos&Videos (@RandomCricketP1) April 16, 2021
May I introduce? The #Follettian school of management.
— Niels Pflaeging (@NielsPflaeging) April 15, 2021
Read the white paper here: https://t.co/HnutoGNEIY #betacodex #management #leadership #follett #maryfollett pic.twitter.com/1lg4X25J3U
Pfizer CEO said boosters may be needed. Unlikely
— Monica Gandhi MD, MPH (@MonicaGandhi9) April 16, 2021
1) T cell immunity from vax (and Abs) work against variants; 2) T cells last long time- 34 y & counting after measles vax; 3) 1st SARS recovered have T cells 17 yr later; 4) Covid Vax generate memory B cells (lymph node biopsy)
Trees on this big Siluro-Devonian sandstone slide in Craig Co., Virginia, hold their leaves longer in the fall than surrounding trees on intact slopes. Not sure if this is a distinction in tree species or an effect of shallow hydrology due to broken-up rock in the slide... pic.twitter.com/ZIhL5csJhq
— Philip Prince (@AllPhilsFault) April 15, 2021
Blue #ThursdayThoughts
— micROCKScopica (@micROCKScopica) April 15, 2021
Garnet (no surprise) in a graphitic schist from the SW Tauern Window, eastern italian Alps.#thinsectionthursday #garnet #geology #rocks #colors #minerals #metamorphism #folds #blue pic.twitter.com/rkAU3M7gGm
How the Panama Canal works pic.twitter.com/zMGVMpZn9I
— How Things Work (@EducationaIGIFs) April 15, 2021
During periods when money supply growth goes up a lot while inflation remains low, it generally pushes up asset valuations instead (asset price inflation). Black boxes in the charts: pic.twitter.com/0NVf7EQJAl
— Lyn Alden (@LynAldenContact) April 15, 2021
"With any custodian, we lose the property of immutability. Is that important? If you’re a Bitcoiner, it ought to be."
— Erik Voorhees (@ErikVoorhees) April 15, 2021
An In-Depth Introduction to @THORChain #bitcoinhttps://t.co/fHsKXCX73F
Beautiful blue glaucophane from Syros, Greece. Here you can see that the rims are higher in iron and are much more blue. #ThinSectionThursday #geology #metamorphism #minerals #crystals pic.twitter.com/OsBxsUu3Bv
— Jesse Walters (@thegeojesse) April 15, 2021
You can spin it any ways, but its an embarrassment for both the polity and the EC in Bengal that it takes 8 phases to conduct a general election for 294 seats (with 7.3 plus crore eligible voters) when it can be done in just one phase in Tamil Nadu for 234 seats (6.3 cr voters).
— Srinivasan Ramani (@vrsrini) April 15, 2021
Crowds watching the line of fire as lava spewed from Fagradalsfjall volcano, Iceland.
— Diane Doniol-Valcroze (@ddoniolvalcroze) April 15, 2021
(Photo: https://t.co/1p34SB7GKy) pic.twitter.com/HR4I9X1snG
Love to see a calcite porphyroblast #thinsection #geology #petrography pic.twitter.com/MLR9Ez7hku
— Taylor L. Watson (@TaylorLWatson1) April 14, 2021
See how the animation of photographs from the groundbreaking 1966 musical “Cabaret” turns Broadway history into something that’s (literally) moving. https://t.co/8eyHTbiDwC
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 15, 2021
The wikipedia page for the 1904 Olympics Men’s Marathon might be my favourite Wikipedia page ever pic.twitter.com/4s6zJYqk1U
— Sophia (@0ldoini) April 14, 2021
Machine learning pipelines pic.twitter.com/5FpG3HrdW0
— AI Memes for Artificially Intelligent Teens (@ai_memes) April 14, 2021
If you think Coinbase is expensive here just imagine what the valuation would be if their CEO tweeted memes and told the SEC to suck his cock
— Dr. Parik Patel, BA, CFA, ACCA Esq. 💸 (@ParikPatelCFA) April 14, 2021
Market caps
— TradingView (@tradingview) April 13, 2021
1. Apple $AAPL $2.2 trillion
2. All cryptos combined $2.1T
3. Microsoft $MSFT $1.9T
4. Aramco $1.8T
5. Amazon $AMZN $1.7T
6. Alphabet $GOOGL $1.5T
7. #Bitcoin $1.2T
8. Facebook $FB $890B
9. Tencent $760B
10. Tesla $TSLA $730B
Note: Gold market cap ~$10 trillion
When @brian_armstrong and I started @coinbase in 2012, a #bitcoin was worth $6 and only known by a few nerds on the internet. #bitcoin was the crazy idea that the world could have a digital money for everyone.@coinbase had one mission: to make crypto easy to use.
— Fred Ehrsam (@FEhrsam) April 14, 2021
Incredibly excited to announce the release of #DEACoastlines: a brand new @GeoscienceAus dataset providing annual coastlines and detailed coastal change rates along Australia's entire coast from 1988 to now!
— Dr Robbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌎🌊 (@SatelliteSci) April 14, 2021
Explore on the interactive map: https://t.co/BRhjqahHVl #DigitalEarthAU pic.twitter.com/hEVsK6r0mb
It’s my second pandemic birthday. Last year I took it in stride. This year I’m making party hats for my chickens.
— Alex Parker (@Alex_Parker) April 13, 2021
This was not the twist I expected pic.twitter.com/LvmdgXJ1rl
— Doodle Fae (@freelancefae) April 12, 2021
Geologists Recommend Eating At Least One Small Rock Per Day https://t.co/BHf0O0LPDo pic.twitter.com/TtjSA5wpyg
— The Onion (@TheOnion) April 13, 2021
Wow, I have never seen a flow overturn and eat its own crust like this. Lava lakes, sure, but not flows! https://t.co/dN6CAfY1NX
— Dr. Lynne Elkins (@LJElkins) April 12, 2021
It was four months ago that I first wrote about bitcoin, and a lot has happened (and a lot has been learned) since then. So here is a refresh of my take on the topic. (THREAD)
— Jurrien Timmer (@TimmerFidelity) April 13, 2021
Oh, my heart. ❤️
— Maya C. Popa (@MayaCPopa) April 13, 2021
“Scaffolding” by Seamus Heaney: pic.twitter.com/6luM1xFObw
Gujarat Govt’s official COVID death count for the ENTIRE state is 55 yesterday. Sandesh TV’s investigation found that 63 dead bodies were sent from just ONE hospital (civil hospital) in Ahmedabad to various crematoriums in a span of 17 hours (12am-5pm).pic.twitter.com/xXpX1zfoLZ
— Pratik Sinha (@free_thinker) April 13, 2021
good morning pic.twitter.com/dq2xcujsGD
— StockCats (@StockCats) April 13, 2021
Unfortunately, you used "desaturate" in Photoshop, which isn't a mathematically correct conversion to B&W. I made a thread about this classic here:https://t.co/98KR64VTSv
— Tim Soret (@timsoret) April 13, 2021
The AI struggles as luminance values are wrong. It improves with correct B&W conversion: pic.twitter.com/09PzUoQx8g
Colorization APIs are becoming widespread; AI-colorized historical photos are circulated without caveat. But is AI colorization providing an accurate image of the past? To find out, I digitally desaturated these color photos by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken between 1909 and 1915. pic.twitter.com/YzJO2b0aza
— Gwen C. Katz (@gwenckatz) April 12, 2021
Today, on the 60th anniversary of man first reaching space, we fully installed Alpha and rotated vertical on Firefly’s Vandenberg launch pad. We will soon perform a static fire test prior to our inaugural launch! #Firefly #MakingSpaceForEveryone #FullAttack! pic.twitter.com/9BHqGBFHMW
— Firefly Aerospace (@Firefly_Space) April 13, 2021
Alright, so who here is interested in a thread about the original Indian unicorn? You see, pre 2010, well before central banks were printing currency like it was toilet paper, the definition of a unicorn🦄 was a wee bit different. (1/n 🧵)
— Arati (@Arati1411) April 11, 2021
The way I screamed after watching the end of this video! 😩😩😩😂 pic.twitter.com/gTmu58sezO
— Stepmother of Dragons 🐲 (@cheembeam) April 12, 2021
Warren Buffett paid $31,500 in 1958 for the house he lives in today
— Dividend Growth Investor (@DividendGrowth) April 12, 2021
He bought it because he listened to his parents that renting is throwing money away
If he had simply invested that money instead, and rented, he would be richer by $4.7 billion today pic.twitter.com/kkiPI3FP5c
Prompted by @CafeEconomics, a short thread on company towns in India like Tatanagar (Jamshedpur), Kirloskarwadi, Modinagar (all three pre-1947) and the ones that followed them. (1/n) https://t.co/M20WuBKv31
— Chinmay Tumbe (@ChinmayTumbe) April 12, 2021
I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.
— Richard Feynman (@ProfFeynman) April 12, 2021
9/n If you haven't spotted the problem yet, the reference S&P data is the PRICE OF THE INDEX, not the market cap. pic.twitter.com/3OjBgFd1Vk
— Keubiko (@Keubiko) April 11, 2021
1/n @CathieDWood asserts that US market cap /GDP was 2-3 times higher than it is today in the late 1800s. pic.twitter.com/ztAqHLAvcN
— Keubiko (@Keubiko) April 11, 2021
'Reports describe what is politely labeled "a high level of degenerate behavior" and which one person in Musk’s circle describes as "total and complete pathological sociopathy."' https://t.co/UtHltrM8V5
— Jesse Felder (@jessefelder) April 11, 2021
A new variant, B.1.617 accounts for a sudden increase of cases in Maharashtra, India. It spreads faster and contains an L452R mutation “capable of immune escape, dodging antibodies (and T cells) generated by a prior infection or a dose of vaccine” https://t.co/DHWVT7C1MN
— Anthony Costello (@globalhlthtwit) April 11, 2021
Visited the abandoned Mississippi River Basin Model, used to test river control infrastructure after the major floods of the 1920s/30s.
— Virginia Hanusik (@virginiahanusik) April 10, 2021
Representing 41% of the US and 15,000 miles of rivers, it’s one of the largest small-scale model ever built and took 26 years to finish. pic.twitter.com/wRIjg2Wp6E
Some video from tonight in Iceland! Authorities extended the hours for people to hike in and stay past sunset so many people got to see the volcano at its most vivid. #Iceland #icelandVolcano #IcelandEruption #volcano #lava
— Brian Emfinger (@brianemfinger) April 10, 2021
Full video here: https://t.co/JgQ55DRnk1 pic.twitter.com/FZnpVow5s6
The plot thickens... pic.twitter.com/noGnKTBlIi
— Justin Lanier (@j_lanier) April 10, 2021
I've read all of Jeff Bezos's 23 years of Amazon shareholder letters twice now.
— Sumit Grrg (@sumitgrrg) April 11, 2021
It's an MBA of its own.
Here's what I learned about startups, entrepreneurship, investing and more:
🧵While I have no time for a movie like #BigBull, I still thought now is the time to talk about Mittals from Ludhiana and their Harshad Mehta's connection.
— Siddharth Misra (@sidart_misra) April 11, 2021
Again Huge KYC Leak!! approx 2.5 Million @upstox Users Including 56 Million KYC files alleged leaked by ShinyHunters from UpStox Server. Data Including Name, Email, DOB, PAN, Bank Details, KYC(Passport, PAN, Cancelled Cheque, Sign Pics etc.) #infosec #GDPR #databreach pic.twitter.com/IZQIWVD0MM
— Rajshekhar Rajaharia (@rajaharia) April 11, 2021
Social Media pic.twitter.com/GuLak10zKt
— Susanta Nanda IFS (@susantananda3) April 11, 2021
The annual pilgrimage of geologists to bring tithes to their god, Vulcan, in hopes of a bountiful harvest of rocks next season.
— Prof. Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) April 11, 2021
(Or, spectators at the Fagradalsfjall eruption, getting as close to active lava as you can without getting singed. Photo by @brianemfinger) pic.twitter.com/9upARgvdX9
The first lottery you play is which family you are born into. The second lottery you play is which country you’re born in.
— Captain Nasdaq (Resigned) (@CaptainNasdaq) April 10, 2021
There'll be no escape from phones in the future - Pacific Telephone CEO, 1953 pic.twitter.com/3ko8BYbIlL
— Historical Photos (@Iearnhistory) April 10, 2021
PPL and XPL: Garnet (partially altered by chlorite), glaucophane (blue at PPL) and quartz in a quartz-rich blueschist. 2x (FOV = 7mm). #alexstrekeisen #glaucophane #blueschit #garnet #thinsection pic.twitter.com/IVaBNpq2tZ
— Alexstrekeisen (@alexstrekeisen) April 10, 2021
How a gearbox works pic.twitter.com/UeVN8steRk
— How Things Work (@EducationaIGIFs) April 9, 2021
Never seen this side of Rahul bhai 🤯🤣 pic.twitter.com/4W93p0Gk7m
— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) April 9, 2021
#ThinSectionThursday and #FossilFriday
— micROCKScopica (@micROCKScopica) April 8, 2021
Thin section photomicrographs of some fossils.
From top left clockwise: silicified #wood; colony of #bryozoa; silicified #coral; detail of #nummulite.#science #art #geology #fossils #paleoart #paleontology #minerals pic.twitter.com/FE1fqY8Jse
Stirling Castle is a fortified medieval (& later royal) castle strategically situated on a volcanic outcrop, with views across the Forth valley.
— Dr Katie Strang (@palaeokatie) April 8, 2021
The rock is a quartz-dolerite sill & it may appear rugged, but look how beautiful it is under a microscope 🖤 #ThinSectionThursday pic.twitter.com/YfznDeE9kl
Confused about the geometry of all these fissures opening up? Me too. Luckily @Vedurstofan made a very handy map. Red line to SW is the first fissure from 19 March in Geldingadalir. Second fissure from 5 April is in NE and red dot between the two is third fissure from 6 April pic.twitter.com/CsTgwdvqtg
— Dr. Evgenia Ilyinskaya (@EIlyinskaya) April 7, 2021
Main lava channel flow speed on a shallow slope estimated from video: 7.7 m/s or about 28 km/h. @kate_volc was able to directly sample the channel at this point safely (i.e. with a long pole and full safety gear/team). pic.twitter.com/I3Ksx2xmRg
— Rob Askew (@RobAskew2) April 7, 2021
The fall of Enron was precipitated by one journalist who was willing to ask tough questions and push back against the narrative Enron had spun for years.
— Fusa (@GrapefruitGals) April 7, 2021
Who will be the @bethanymac12 that publicly challenges the fraud occurring at $GSX? pic.twitter.com/UWi6X5usal
Can’t stop thinking about @mblfrettir’s webcam consumed by the new lava pic.twitter.com/m7ymWsxrkx
— Sandra Snæbjörnsdóttir (@sandrasnaebj) April 7, 2021
Breaking News: Evidence is mounting that a tiny subatomic particle is being influenced by forms of matter and energy that are not yet known to science but which may nevertheless affect the nature and evolution of the universe. https://t.co/8cwwhlPCOe
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 7, 2021
