Spectacular mud volcano eruption in Colombia. 100 people evacuated but safe.
— Mark Tingay (@CriticalStress_) May 31, 2021
I'm still chasing details, and I can't find exactly where this is from the article.
Dear GeoTwitter & @GeoLatinas can anyone please help find exactly where this eruption is? Lots of MVs in that area. https://t.co/jA9r0AHLi7
I read your 2020 annual letter with interest, @chamath. Odd it was published in late May, but we’re all busy. Before commenting on this incredibly bad take of a comparison to Berkshire Hathaway, allow me to help you with some math. First, 1965 to 1974 is TEN years, not nine. 1/ pic.twitter.com/6nmjn1SzEd
— Christopher Bloomstran (@ChrisBloomstran) May 30, 2021
Sometimes you just have to take a quick break and cozy up next to a mafic enclave with a chilled margin. pic.twitter.com/liv4Ik8N4R
— Anna Ruefer (@annaruefer) May 30, 2021
No need of analogs or experiments: Brown Silk at @MarmiRossi is a straightforward Treatise of (micro)tectonics.#geology #deformation #foliation #refraction #interference #clasts pic.twitter.com/h4oi8wqR6r
— micROCKScopica (@micROCKScopica) May 30, 2021
This is the end of a memoir from the famous 20th c. atheist and formerly socialist historian Will Durant called "Fallen Leaves" which was discovered and published after his death at 96 in 1981. It's packed with beautiful prose and raw observations.
— Brent Beshore (@BrentBeshore) May 30, 2021
Here are some quotes: https://t.co/aBmRatbU3w
"Civilization is a fragile bungalow precariously poised on a live volcano of barbarism."
— Brent Beshore (@BrentBeshore) May 30, 2021
"The individual, free from the family, idolized liberty and did not learn till too late that liberty is a child of order and may be the mother of chaos."
Every fucking time. Every single one. pic.twitter.com/6ZhTyF557G
— Dr LJ Maher (@littleread) May 30, 2021
Easily, one of the most incredible timeline pics of IAF... MiG-21
— Harsh Vardhan Thakur (@hvtiaf) May 29, 2021
MiG-23
MiG-25
MiG-27
MiG-29s
in perfect symmetry. pic.twitter.com/N9Xv60wpQd
I’m gonna make a thread of all of these as they’re hard to find via search and they’re all SO FUNNY https://t.co/Dqcjof09xs
— ruth :) (@theofluffycat) May 29, 2021
The first image from the surface of another planet *ever* wasn't of Mars.
— Prof. Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) May 29, 2021
It was of Venus, taken by the Soviet Venera 9 lander in 1975.
These are boulders at 470°C and 90 bars, beneath an ocean of supercritical CO₂.
(Top: 6-bit image; bottom: repaired by @DonaldM38768041) pic.twitter.com/Ub4S1j84jA
The world's hjghest tides occur in the Bay of Fundy in Atlantic Canada. This time 2011 lapse movie by Leo de Groot speeds up by 720 times the fall and rise of the tide in Hall's Harbour, Nova Scotia, highlighting what we could call the ocean's breath: https://t.co/w3m6IPFnOk pic.twitter.com/1SLxy0sKCd
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 29, 2021
Ullu ky pathay ❤ pic.twitter.com/VfhqLWmYH1
— Arsl 🗯 (@Arsl_Sayss) May 28, 2021
Time-lapse videos of seeds sprouting 😲 https://t.co/pF9YdQSo1L pic.twitter.com/hv5RabsSUf
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) May 28, 2021
We achieved another milestone last week! Learn how the team launched and fully commissioned its latest #SAR satellite in 5 days. Our blog will take you behind the scenes with spacecraft deployment footage and celebrations back on Earth. https://t.co/nIf8RHSVh7
— Capella Space (@capellaspace) May 28, 2021
Animation shows #Satellite images of #Yamuna River near Yamuna Nagar. Sand mining in the river between 2017 & 2021 has led to massive changes in the river and the river doesnt have a proper course in this section any more.
— Raj Bhagat P #Mapper4Life (@rajbhagatt) May 28, 2021
It is now a set of interconnected pools pic.twitter.com/e0czz08cZ7
Got 7 minutes? Listen to this answer from Sam Manekshaw. The interviewer, my dear friend Sushil Sharma, passed away today -- he would have wanted more people to see this. Immortal Sam! pic.twitter.com/6VepRzmkua
— Shiv Aroor (@ShivAroor) May 28, 2021
I am fairly certain most people cannot have their best ideas if they are in back to back meetings every day. You need time to question things and then research it.
— Suhail (@Suhail) May 28, 2021
So, if you wonder why it’s hard to make ground breaking products after the first, look at your calendar.
Vaccine seen under an electron microscope (only what is remaining in the bottles after use! ) pic.twitter.com/uWJ9ELlSmV
— Schoehn Guy (@SchoehnGuy) May 27, 2021
In 2011-2015, the Majors together spent an average of US$16 billion a year on exploration & appraisal. Since then it's shrunk by two-thirds, dipping to just US$5 billion in the crisis of 2020. https://t.co/raj5TVrA6L
— Robert Clarke (@RobertClarke_WM) May 27, 2021
obsessed with this guy who just uploads videos of him playing classic rock riffs while his birb freestyles vocals pic.twitter.com/PRad1TY33D
— flop era orange coat guy (@rtnordy) May 26, 2021
Primary fluid inclusions in Permian halite or modern art? #ThinSectionThursday pic.twitter.com/xS7Sb0G5kP
— Kathy Benison (@KathyBenison) May 27, 2021
this figure I just encountered in a scientific paper has split my entire day into the Before and the After pic.twitter.com/j8bj7299CD
— Josh Sokol (@josh_sokol) May 27, 2021
I woke up thinking about this raccoon trying to wash his cotton candy before eating it pic.twitter.com/uQXmMM5K6v
— Sheel Mohnot (@pitdesi) May 27, 2021
This is a bizarre take. The evidence has stayed precisely the same - natural origin very likely, lab leak thus far entirely unproven and a very low chance
— Health Nerd (@GidMK) May 27, 2021
The rest is mostly misconceptions caused by reading only sensationalist headlines https://t.co/IZ04sAXs6p
My first company @twitch sold for a billion dollars.
— Justin Kan (@justinkan) May 27, 2021
My second one lost $75 million in 36 months.
People love talking about success, but today I'm going to talk about failure.
It's time to be honest about Atrium: pic.twitter.com/QHrNHpAZaI
I have done it.
— Tony Dinh 🎯 (@tdinh_me) May 26, 2021
My profile banner now shows my latest 3 followers!
Update every 60 secs.
Nope, unfollow and follow again won't work, sorry 😂
A few things the self-help books won't teach you about success.
— Nick Huber (@sweatystartup) May 26, 2021
A thread:
@RandomCricketP1 Illuminati confirmed pic.twitter.com/bhNnW0nFVh
— Ashish (@ashishwt) May 26, 2021
Imagine trying to compete with YouTube and Netflix at the same time.
— Ankith Harathi (@ankithharathi) May 26, 2021
That's what Anjali Sud faced when she joined Vimeo 6 years ago.
She quickly felt their strategy was wrong, and brought it up in a meeting.
Today, as CEO, she took Vimeo public.
Here's what happened 🧵👇
Cool! Explore the Moon, Mars, or Mercury with Planetary Portals — RedMapper https://t.co/Yvr9ZJz3rT pic.twitter.com/UJXkLuChCA
— Prof. Abel Méndez (@ProfAbelMendez) May 25, 2021
DeFi technologies are interesting because they could apply more to stocks and other assets, but I have similar concerns as you about the currently circular nature of the industry, outside of bitcoin. https://t.co/WjrJt4VFxL pic.twitter.com/EoDV7LblIM
— Lyn Alden (@LynAldenContact) May 25, 2021
Phil being Phil never gets old. pic.twitter.com/Y6Gg2J7Jrm
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) May 24, 2021
releasing an abbreviated version of the memo has need approved. memo is from a Beijing expert who is extremely qualified to comment but is not part of the Chinese government. in my view just about as authoritative as it’s possible to get. https://t.co/2I4ueceB2P
— Matthew Graham (@mattysino) May 25, 2021
Ur not the CEO of Bitcoin sit your ass down. This whole thing screams implicit control opportunism from an otherwise leaderless technology. https://t.co/JZOd01k0ND
— Big Beta (@Big_Beta_Sensei) May 24, 2021
50 YEARS OF MARS ROVERS (1971-2021), TO SCALE
— Pascal Lee (@pascalleetweets) May 24, 2021
USSR Mars 3 Prop-M, @NASA's 5: #Sojourner, #Spirit, #Opportunity, #Curiosity, #Perseverance w/ helicopter #Ingenuity, China's #Zhurong, & a (future) #Mars #Astronaut, to scale.
OK Fellas, There's a new kid in town. Everybody say hi. pic.twitter.com/WGP7GWE7PR
In case anyone else needs this reminder today pic.twitter.com/dSPY9IFCgt
— Shannon Stirone (angel of the supermarket)💀 (@shannonmstirone) May 24, 2021
The RAW vs The Edit pic.twitter.com/8qnABb2qxT
— Brandon M. Wynn (@BrandonMWynn) May 24, 2021
#Bitcoin developers refused to meet with miners in July of 2016 until each participant signed this pledge. pic.twitter.com/rbksweBDnP
— Documenting Bitcoin 📄 (@DocumentingBTC) May 24, 2021
This is the first of the three main unconformities that Hutton described: Newton Point near Lochranza on the Isle of Arran, Scotland. It comprises steeply dipping Precambrian Dalradian schists overlain by cornstones of Carboniferous Kinnesswood Formation. Courtesy of @NachoBen pic.twitter.com/tzRBoZBTMC
— Professor Howard Falcon-Lang (@falconlang) May 24, 2021
people: lol why would anyone get a humanities degree
— Jake Anbinder (@JakeAnbinder) May 24, 2021
also people: ugh why does the CDC seem to struggle with articulating a synthesis of a handful of complex concepts
“It’s when smart people unconsciously sweep inconvenient facts under the rug to support their own pet theories. That’s why advances are usually made by the young. Not because they’re more intellectually agile but because they have less accumulated self-deception.”
— Jim OShaughnessy (@jposhaughnessy) May 23, 2021
~@erikphoel
THREAD ON A CLASSIC IRANI TROPHY CONTEST B/W SOURAV & SACHIN'S MEN
— RandomCricketPhotos&Videos (@RandomCricketP1) May 24, 2021
It was 2003 and the Indian team hadn't played much cricket post the high of the World Cup final. As the team was to play New Zealand at home and Australia in Australia in the coming months, BCCI decided that the pic.twitter.com/wRp7ychlQ4
I have to stop posting...this is a place I dreamt to visit since I was a kid. #volcanology is fun...and artistic @unige_en pic.twitter.com/Aagk4xdMoc
— Luca Caricchi (@LucaCaricchi) May 24, 2021
This is incredible. What a awesome moment pic.twitter.com/G87XDNYjZU
— Cody Tapp (@codybtapp) May 22, 2021
The @wsj report on the Wuhan lab leak theory isn't exactly new. Stories claiming USIC knew of sick lab workers in fall 2019 have circulated before in the MSM. The theory gets a lot of pushback and I wrote about why in my book. Thread: https://t.co/6etuFO7fbU pic.twitter.com/QXE6DcUNXE
— Nina Burleigh (@ninaburleigh) May 24, 2021
Amazing satellite footage of a 1.5 km crater... on Mars. Yep, NASA has satellites in orbit around the red planet.
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) May 23, 2021
📽️ by Seán Doran https://t.co/HDv9ssg5gk pic.twitter.com/55f3RDBFtV
This is AMAZING! Talk about threading a needle. pic.twitter.com/cdZ2QpwUbB
— TJ Cooney 🚀 (@TJ_Cooney) May 23, 2021
Tether 2019 vs. 2021.
— Nate Anderson (@ClarityToast) May 23, 2021
Still amazed that this is a $55 billion market cap underpinning to the crypto market and it's occurring in broad daylight. pic.twitter.com/ptDFOkNr61
"Carlos, you ruined it man!" 😂#MonacoGP 🇲🇨 #F1 pic.twitter.com/TD6Xes6k51
— Formula 1 (@F1) May 23, 2021
What we know so far: KGB operatives boarded the plane in Athens this morning together with Roman Protasevich (he noticed dodgy-looking ppl taking pics of him at the gate). Then when the plane has entered Belarus airspace KGB officers initiated a fight with the Ryanair crew (1/2)
— Tadeusz Giczan (@TadeuszGiczan) May 23, 2021
Rs.1063cr - the collective 'skin in the game' of AMC boards, executives and fund managers in the 7.93 lakh crore equity mutual funds segment. #mutualfunds #investors pic.twitter.com/maXBAF50SW
— Gopal Kavalireddi (@gvkreddi) May 23, 2021
Lads... lads! 🍾😁#MonacoGP 🇲🇨 #F1 pic.twitter.com/g38P17NgOU
— Formula 1 (@F1) May 23, 2021
Predator and prey walking home after a whole day of acting for Nat Geo. pic.twitter.com/SBeQcdjCNM
— Milky Way Astronomers (@MAstronomers) May 21, 2021
He said Virgin Galactic was looking to accomplish "three big things" today:
— Michael Sheetz (@thesheetztweetz) May 22, 2021
1-Test a new digital control for flight control support
2-Ignite the rocket motor and "squash the [EMI] problem"
3-"Collect data to send to the FAA" pic.twitter.com/mixed37S85
Animated map shows the geographical history of Europe during WWII in the style of Google Earth. Sound bites add a nice touch to the map. Source: https://t.co/IT0CJQnXvN pic.twitter.com/y1x6SsUcKf
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) May 21, 2021
Perhaps the problem with discussions over Cecil Rhodes is that people do not really understand who and what Rhodes was.
— Matt Cross (@wildforest_matt) May 21, 2021
They think he was another of those racist 19th century colonialists now being judged for his racist views.
This is not so. 1/15
All major democracies ordered vaccines around August 2020. India did not give in any advanced order. Not even after the vaccines were approved in India.
— Sushant Sinha (@sushantsinha) May 21, 2021
No TV channel questioned them. No major print publication did so. Deaths all around and a complete destruction of economy.
OMG HiRISE snapped the coolest photo of @MarsCuriosity on top of Mont Mercou, and it. is. amazing. 🥰 https://t.co/QgLcPtprAx pic.twitter.com/YMODpnRPmM
— Abigail Fraeman (@abbyfrae) May 21, 2021
Here's Raymond Chandler taking the piss out of science fiction and mentioning Google in a 1953 letter. https://t.co/b2Rs2xV1ko pic.twitter.com/PO5GVEz9Px
— Letters of Note (@LettersOfNote) May 21, 2021
I analyzed 100s of landing pages to give you some inspiration.
— Blake Emal 👋 (@heyblake) May 19, 2021
Here are 34 of the very best:
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Fayalite, Fe-olivine (with high relief, brown at PPL, and with high interference colors at XPL) and plagioclase crystals in a granite from Baveno, Italy. PPL and XPL, 2x (Fov 7 mm).#alexstrekeisen #thinSectionThursday #fayalite #granite #baveno pic.twitter.com/zfNRgUetwy
— Alexstrekeisen (@alexstrekeisen) May 20, 2021
Right at the point where it looks like Tesla would have to eat an impairment charge on its Bitcoin holdings, this is what we get lol. pic.twitter.com/QEf6ttHunS
— Keubiko (@Keubiko) May 19, 2021
China's Zhurong rover released its first images from the surface of Mars! It touched down in Utopia Planitia, in the northern plains of Mars.
— Dr. Tanya Harrison (@tanyaofmars) May 19, 2021
Let's take a little tour of Utopia Planitia today. (Thread: 1/n) pic.twitter.com/8PoiRtjqg0
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Super founders who build successful Unicorns often had years prior experience as a founder from a small exit or failure previously
— garrytan.eth 🦇🔊 (@garrytan) May 19, 2021
Practice makes perfecthttps://t.co/oTR7aSp13a pic.twitter.com/XGa1O2gYOm
Here's an image of Triton, Neptune's largest moon. I recorded this image from my back yard: it's a screenshot from a hand-held video I took using my Nokia 3210. (Either that or it was taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989; NASA JPL / U.S. Geological Survey) pic.twitter.com/sFUHD3ApZO
— Dr. James O'Donoghue (@physicsJ) May 18, 2021
Oooh! The new Zhurong rover has possibly landed close to a Martian mud volcano!
— Mark Tingay (@CriticalStress_) May 19, 2021
Early estimates put it ~3km from a prominent feature many interpret as an old mud volcano.
Mars rovers have never visited such a feature before.https://t.co/geo7EfOmIy pic.twitter.com/ov15JUOJtC
So, I know everyone's afraid of looking like a crazy person, but I can’t believe the new UFO report from the Pentagon isn't a bigger deal.
— Cabot Phillips (@cabot_phillips) May 18, 2021
Our govt says there are crafts that "outstrip our arsenal by at least 100 years to 1,000 years at the moment” and we're like "meh..."
Saidpur Coorg. God bless them pic.twitter.com/T9ox9jhpmf
— satish shah (@sats45) May 19, 2021
Here’s a cool slow motion video shot from my favorite, personal, super secret, launch viewing hideout. Just don’t tell Pad Safety. I’m not sure they’d approve of me sneaking up here... #AtlasV #SBIRSGEO5 #SBIRS pic.twitter.com/gj1YRFyftu
— Tory Bruno (@torybruno) May 19, 2021
This product, no CLINICAL evidence 2 support advertised use
— TheLiverDoc (@drabbyphilips) May 19, 2021
Neither reduces severity
Nor prevents viral disease
Gud timely marketing gimmick
Modern equivalent of Ayush quackery
💯Masks social distancing vaccination
Not some nonsense mouth spray@Dr_Maulesh @nerdyamit https://t.co/fgoEm6bMge
Rivers are moving.. This is the Yellow River (Huang He) near Zhengzhou, China - captured by #Sentinel1 @ESA_EO @CopernicusEU pic.twitter.com/8VeDniJF4A
— Simon Gascoin (@sgascoin) May 18, 2021
Big Pharma says they need to charge astronomical prices to pay for research and development. Yet, the amount they spend on manipulating the market to enrich shareholders completely eclipses what's spent on R&D. Today, I confronted a CEO about the industry's lies, with visuals ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/c3jSLr0yVd
— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) May 18, 2021
1/We are excited about a partnership between Google and Fervo, announced today by CEO Sundar Pichai, to develop next-generation geothermal, delivering 24/7 clean power by 2022 and setting the stage for a long term technology partnership. A THREAD: https://t.co/xbbrGIxbAC pic.twitter.com/YAniYvbgTH
— Tim Latimer (@TimMLatimer) May 18, 2021
Every bull market the lie of "faster" altcoins resurfaces. Litecoin is not faster than Bitcoin. Dogecoin is not faster than Bitcoin. Bitcoin actually settles in LESS time than any other cryptocurrency. But to understand why that is, you have to understand what settlement is. 1/n
— (bad at math) ProgrammableTX 🟩 (@ProgrammableTx) May 18, 2021
Using a mixture of modern acoustic equipment, satellite imagery and photography, scientists have studied deposits following the 2018 Sunda Strait Tsunami and been able to determine its cause - a significant collapse of the Anak Krakatau volcanic island.https://t.co/eJuKUqw5jC pic.twitter.com/zpqgWrzjbY
— British Geological Survey (@BritGeoSurvey) May 17, 2021
The Health Minister of India is responding to the current crisis by rebutting a Lancet editorial with... a blogpost whose thumbnail is a cat pic. I've read the blog. The most compelling argument in it is the cat photo. pic.twitter.com/s17yHAv5qu
— Riddhi Dastidar (@gaachburi) May 17, 2021
Map overlays the USA on Antarctica. This puts Antarctic exploration into context, doesn't it? It's not just a little sleigh ride in the snow that gets you to the pole... Source: https://t.co/yb9JJjhCbG pic.twitter.com/NunswV6r5o
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) May 17, 2021
Simply putting Reagan on graphs make some problems become obvious pic.twitter.com/5sXcIQRJXm
— Cypher (@Cynical_History) May 16, 2021
The #Zhurong rover, which recently landed on Mars has a chance to fundamentally change our understanding of icy processes on the Fire Planet (火星) . Will it reveal strategic subsurface ice deposits? Discover mud volcanism? What else? Check out the story:https://t.co/VdaHwhXJyz pic.twitter.com/Ei4xIB7Gxh
— Joe Michalski (@JoePlanets) May 17, 2021
Good morning this is the size of the Mississippi River watershed pic.twitter.com/2ErSSebVUO
— Virginia Hanusik (@virginiahanusik) May 16, 2021
A free diver captured the moment when two bubble rings collided, dissolving into each other to form one larger circle. pic.twitter.com/RkpeOIip1r
— Whoa City (@whoacity) May 15, 2021
The biggest impediment to BTC adoption are bitcoin maximalists. Few understand this.
— Raoul Pal (@RaoulGMI) May 16, 2021
Be more open. Don't try to ram your points home. Support people and don't be tribal and never be abusive and insulting if someone doesn't share your BTC only views. It's a big world out there.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
— Peter Todd (@peterktodd) May 16, 2021
Dogecoin's block interval is already just 60 seconds. That's low enough that larger miners already have a big profit advantage over smaller ones.
A 6 second block interval with 10MB blocks would just break the consensus.
Musk should focus on rockets. https://t.co/DXJYuxhEZW
I don't make the rules. pic.twitter.com/T1ZL6l29qA
— Steven (@Dogetoshi) May 15, 2021
Following reports today I want to correct the record with attached statement pic.twitter.com/CzfF0Y76K4
— Daniel Ek (@eldsjal) May 15, 2021
1/ SOME THOUGHTS on #stablecoins & the #crypto selloff, which are probably connected.
— Caitlin Long 🔑 (@CaitlinLong_) May 15, 2021
HUGE news last week & it matters far more than @elonmusk or @binance news. A long thread 👇: pic.twitter.com/itRfCfY1d3
PPL and XPL: Dioptase (CuSiO3 · H2O) with fantastic azure-green colors at PPL, and high interference colors at XPL in a quartz vein in a limstone. Congo, 2x (FOV 7mm). #alexstrekeisen #thinsection #dioptase #congo pic.twitter.com/B0yd2ZshqU
— Alexstrekeisen (@alexstrekeisen) May 15, 2021
Crypto and each implementation is evolving in real time from "what is the potential utility" to "What is the current utility and how many users does it have". Tokens/Coin prices are now less a bet on the future and more a reflection of real demand.
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) May 15, 2021
This map shows distribution of reachable #Bitcoin nodes found in countries around the world.
— Documenting Bitcoin 📄 (@DocumentingBTC) May 15, 2021
There's about 10,000 nodes protecting the network right now, and each one has an entire copy of the #Bitcoin ledger that they use to enforce and validate the rules. pic.twitter.com/p3R3MxY03I
Touchdown Confirmed! #Zhurong (祝融), the 1st Created-in-China Mars Rover, has landed in Utopia Planitia on Mars! China 🇨🇳 becomes the 2nd nation to land a rover successfully on Mars (3rd for a lander). Credit also to #Tianwen1 science instrument & tracking partners: 🇪🇺🇦🇷🇫🇷🇪🇸🇦🇹🇦🇺 pic.twitter.com/au9yfeLjUy
— Chinese Zhurong Mars Rover (@MarsZhurong) May 15, 2021
A few hours ago, China's #Tianwen1 spacecraft successfully touched down in Utopia Planitia, Mars.
— Prof. Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) May 15, 2021
Suggested coordinates for the landing are 25.1°N, 109.7°E.
Here's that point on Mars, marked with a red star on the MRO CTX basemap.
The field of view here is ~5.3 km across. pic.twitter.com/SZsDuMd8He
Map by @dr_xeo shows the buildings of Valencia by year of construction. He also wrote a tutorial on how to create this map: https://t.co/MIaeaBhEvp pic.twitter.com/WaNjHxbPlU
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) May 14, 2021
Interceptors don’t travel in straight lines. pic.twitter.com/40z7AohSbh
— Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) May 14, 2021
Geophysicist and seismologist Inge Lehmann was born #OTD in 1888. In 1936 she discovered the existence of a solid core at the center of the Earth, based on a careful analysis of global seismic records from a 1929 earthquake near New Zealand.
— Robert McNees (@mcnees) May 13, 2021
Image: Royal Danish Library pic.twitter.com/Qh9EECNrvU
Venus fly traps have to put their flowers really far away from their traps so they don’t accidentally kill their pollinators and I love it so much. pic.twitter.com/tTEuoDXSCi
— Hank Green (@hankgreen) May 13, 2021
📍My god… the upgraded warning #B16172 variant (magenta) is surging so fast. Epidemiologists now estimate it is 60% faster than even #B117 UK/Kent variant, which is already 50% faster. If true, it could make it fastest transmission one to be found worldwide. Thread 🧵. #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/GvsyfcE4Mu
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) May 13, 2021
This video of strangers helping a young man with his tie for a job interview always gets me. Here's a little something for your heart :) pic.twitter.com/IzdeyV971T
— Sukhada (@appadappajappa) May 12, 2021
A science department that mistook Heisenberg of uncertainty principle for Heisenberg of Breaking Bad. (2019, AP) pic.twitter.com/aEmacYEv5V
— Rahul M (@twrahul) May 12, 2021
#thinsectionthursday
— micROCKScopica (@micROCKScopica) May 13, 2021
Spaceships of Scapolite in this impure marble from the contact aureole of Adamello batholith (Bazena)
Because #Earth without #Art is just eh...#science #art #rocks #geology #colors #quote #klee #minerals #photography #cover pic.twitter.com/N0vgvJrGJ5
Long Term effects of covid19 pic.twitter.com/JzO3cStCNH
— Dr. Jonathan 🇮🇳👨⚕️⚕️ (@just1doctorwala) May 13, 2021
12 hours in a life of an eruption. I could watch this all day, not the least because of the ever-changing weather that makes the landscape look like paintings. And the midnight sun <3 #Fagradalsfjall pic.twitter.com/A3K2AcLowP
— Dr. Evgenia Ilyinskaya (@EIlyinskaya) May 12, 2021
Watch these incredible images of rockets interception pic.twitter.com/xO8AfIKrsf
— Daniel Carmon🇮🇱 (@danielocarmon) May 11, 2021
Calcite crystal in a coarse grained marble from Lasa, Bolzano province, South Tyrol, Italy. XPL Image, 2x (Field of view 7 mm).#alexstrekeisen #geology #thinsection #calcite #marble #tyrol pic.twitter.com/QkHymcHxK7
— Alexstrekeisen (@alexstrekeisen) May 11, 2021
This interview happened in 1994.
— Tyler Neville (@Tyler_Neville_) May 11, 2021
James Goldsmith was talking about the side-effects of globalization.
We are simply watching the end of a 30 year cycle from capital to labor reverse now.
That is the real reason bonds are selling off. pic.twitter.com/mXTDMeCUVb
Right now India has the licensing right to manufacture
— Rakesh Nayak (@OdiSriUS) May 11, 2021
1. Covaxin for unlimited people
2. Covidshield/AZ for unlimited people
3. Janssen/J&J for 600m people
4. Covovax/Novovax for 500m people
5. Sputnik for 652m people
India needs an IPR waiver to vaccinate its people?
Earth looks like an alien world from the International Space Station with a massive sandstorm and towering cumulonimbus clouds covering the Sahara Desert.
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) May 10, 2021
Credit: NASA Johnson pic.twitter.com/AovC29fYop
No more image crops on @Twitter? For us this means more views of the ocean. 🌊 🛰️
— NASA Ocean (@NASAOcean) May 7, 2021
Here's the Atlantic Ocean after passage of Hurricane Irma in 2017. https://t.co/wRCfSvky5F
📸 @NASA_Landsat 8 pic.twitter.com/Dmnv3Cjt1j
#Thread#Elections are supposed to be about electing representations for framing legislations
— Raj Bhagat P #Mapper4Life (@rajbhagatt) May 10, 2021
However the geography behind delimitation which doesnt consider complex socio-economic conditions promote communal polarization leading to deterioration of Democractic values
1/n pic.twitter.com/wxEHi64bJX
Paper someone Me thinking I’m
— gavin jones (@ecologyofgavin) May 9, 2021
wrote way back doing something
in 1967 novel in 2021
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The difference in volume and tone of media coverage for China's uncontrolled rocket reentry and an almost identical one from SpaceX a month earlier is really pissing me off pic.twitter.com/T8u51X1dnb
— emma (@actualjellyfish) May 9, 2021
The SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site is yet again in the news - this time because of a quote by Nobel laureate David Baltimore.
— Kristian G. Andersen (@K_G_Andersen) May 9, 2021
The site is not a "smoking gun", nor does it "make a powerful challenge to the idea of a natural origin".
Quite the opposite, so a little science 🧵👇 pic.twitter.com/Txc3sQYZSe
In 1998, Google’s founders got their first investment: a $100,000 check.
— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) May 9, 2021
It took some time to deposit because they had not set up a bank account.
To celebrate, they had breakfast at Burger King.pic.twitter.com/6wvELdILim
Late #thinsectionthursday
— Dr. Dawn Ruth (@rockdoc11) May 8, 2021
PPL image of plagioclase and orthopyroxene glomerocryst from Newberry Northwest Rift Zone. Plumbing system is more complicated that anticipated. Yay! pic.twitter.com/9Zz7VQgI3j
So Twitter is no longer cropping portrait photos?! Seeing is believing 👀
— Chris Jackson (@orogenGT) May 7, 2021
Boudinaged mafic dyke at Isfossnipa, western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. Person for scale at lower right. pic.twitter.com/UhYwe4fbEG
Real-time MRI scan of a person talking.
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) May 8, 2021
Credit: Jens Frahm / MPIBPC
Full video: https://t.co/Yl0E0EvThW pic.twitter.com/l4ohlPYo5e
Cancrinite is a mineral which should be crap, but managed to be brilliant, thanks to birefringence 😊 https://t.co/q04RBbmudB
— John Faithfull 🌍🇪🇺🏴 (@FaithfullJohn) May 8, 2021
We live in ostrich country. No one sees the dying in UP. No one will remember them. No one cares how many more will die.
— Preeti Sharma Menon (@PreetiSMenon) May 7, 2021
With a media obsessed with Delhi and Mumbai there is little hope that help willl reach them from a deaf administration. pic.twitter.com/fmojqBh6MJ
When he arrived, he realized that Gandhi was on the top floor and he could not climb the stairs. So Gurudev was carried up on a chair, and his four bearers were Nehru , Netaji, Sarat Bose and the Mahatma's trusted assistant, Mahadev Desai.
— Joy Bhattacharjya (@joybhattacharj) May 7, 2021
Very big men with very small egos.
This is not, in fact, BIG NEWS. The hundreds of Mars scientists actually working on these missions did not somehow miss the presence of fungi, and anyone reading this paper should easily spot the (many, obvious) red flags.
— Casey Dreier (@CaseyDreier) May 7, 2021
This should not have passed peer review. Embarrassing. https://t.co/0odpPyhvRZ
Schindler’s List is a film where a Nazi high ranking person comes to a factory trying to help the war effort and asks for the list of workers to determine whether any undesirable minority has been included in the same. You can watch it on Amazon.
— sanjoy ghose (@advsanjoy) May 7, 2021
Need to find a way to recreate (1) the depth of human connection from being physically close to others and (2) the serendipity of chance physical encounters that lead to positive outcomes.
— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) May 6, 2021
Who is building around these areas?
The most important thing is the ability to survive until you get lucky
— David Boxenhorn (@davidboxenhorn) May 6, 2021
Satellite image showing the very regular volcanic plume pulses from the on/off lava fountains at Fagradalsfjall eruption. Sentinel image published by @Vedurstofan pic.twitter.com/CIO1MR5LvA
— Dr. Evgenia Ilyinskaya (@EIlyinskaya) May 7, 2021
I finally managed to finish my most ambitious project to date. Years in the making, I am releasing the full material for my 'End-to-End Google #EarthEngine' course under an open license - allowing anyone to learn, teach and adapt it. Check it out at https://t.co/AE2YHojgfH pic.twitter.com/z993m2iazo
— Ujaval Gandhi (@spatialthoughts) May 6, 2021
#TIL the company that popularised Greek yoghurt in the US called it Greek only because it was felt that calling it Turkish yoghurt (which is what it was) might not appeal to a certain section of the population.
— Krish Ashok (@krishashok) May 6, 2021
A #badgeographyjoke to please (or annoy?) #StarTrek fans... pic.twitter.com/REFqwTBDqY
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) May 6, 2021
Well, you don’t see core like that every day! https://t.co/PeikFUoaZ1
— Mark Tingay (@CriticalStress_) May 6, 2021
This is Hilarious. And genius.
— Mr Reagan 🇺🇸 (@MrReaganUSA) May 2, 2021
*the dog money bubble will not likely last forever.
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Names of very large numbers. Turns out if you feel like a nonillionaire you are actually suuuuuper rich rather than broke 😉 Source: https://t.co/rSUvLbu1Gi pic.twitter.com/V27iChIkzC
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) May 5, 2021
If dogecoin was Indian it would be called kuttacoin
— Dr. Parik Patel, BA, CFA, ACCA Esq. 💸 (@ParikPatelCFA) May 5, 2021
Accuracy vs precision. I like this visual. Source: https://t.co/zZ1uypQnyH pic.twitter.com/pYN68qnpt7
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) May 5, 2021
#OnThisDay 1950: Newsreel reported on the lifting of restaurant restrictions. pic.twitter.com/wUXGs7KOpj
— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) May 5, 2021
1/ A Redditor who runs in high net worth circles writes on the "gradations of rich".
— Trung Phan 🇨🇦 (@TrungTPhan) May 4, 2021
He explains in minute detail the difference between being worth $10m+ and $1B+.
It' a doozy 🧵
I am posted in COVID ICU for 12 hours (night shift).
— Alisha Akhani (@AlishaAkhani) May 3, 2021
This duty has been extremely brutal for a no. of reasons-
Seeing more young people die.
Have to restrain a lot of them as they're uncooperative or self extubate. They cry and beg us to remove the restrains but we can't
(1)
Orthopyroxene (grey interference colors at XPL) with large clinopyroxene rim in association with biotite and alkali-feldsapar in a "shonkinite" (melanocratic foid syenite) from Lincoln syenite intrusion, Maine, USA. #alexstrekeisen #shonkinite #maine #usa pic.twitter.com/HFooa26Qhi
— Alexstrekeisen (@alexstrekeisen) May 3, 2021
During the gold rush, there were >500 abandoned ships from people who moved to SF in search of gold
— Sheel Mohnot (@pitdesi) May 3, 2021
SF had a law that allowed land rights over where a ship had sunk. The city was out of room, so ppl sunk ships to build over.
Embarcadero/FiDi is built on top of abandonded ships pic.twitter.com/pDeoCWCjnb
Stunning timelapse of the Earth rising over the Moon captured by Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft Kaguya. Credit: JAXA/NHK pic.twitter.com/mILP67HZwn
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) May 3, 2021
Ppl have all sorts of theories about how organizations should operate, be built, etc
— Anand Sanwal (@asanwal) May 2, 2021
On Twitter/their Substack, they share those theories with supreme confidence
Most have never run an org of any scale
So their theories are hot trash
Ignore them
I'm subtweeting 6000+ people
New #COVID19 cases have fallen significantly over the past 2 days after crossing 400K!
— Rijo M John, PhD (@RijoMJohn) May 3, 2021
Expect to see only <350K reported cases today!
But, please don't think it means we've hit a peak. Keep your eyes on that "Tests" column before you decide.
See if the tests reach ~2M today! pic.twitter.com/YXIqHv9Bor
Did Covid had any effect on the BJP vote share in West Bengal? Not so simple... 1/11
— Gilles Verniers (@gilkumar) May 2, 2021
