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The War On #Coronavirus:
🇺🇸US Marines raising American flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima during World War II
🇺🇸Fast-forward 75 years
🇺🇸Depicts those who are on the front lines today in the war against coronavirus
🇺🇸First responders, nurses, doctors, scientists
#COVID19
Flatten The Curve:
🧼Minimizing coronavirus impact
🧼Reduce the rate of spread in order to keep from overwhelming the healthcare system
🧼In an overwhelmed system mortality rates can be high, unable to provide supportive care for critically ill patients due to lack of capacity
Hottest Days On Record:
🌡Melting on the ice cap of Eagle Island, Antarctica, during a warm period between February 4 and February 13
🌡~4 inches (20%) of seasonal snow accumulation in the region melted in this one event
🌡Thermometers reached 64.9°F
👉https://t.co/XISjpsSeuA
#Science Bent:
❤️Roses reflect a light frequency at one end of the visible electromagnetic spectrum
❤️Violets reflect a light frequency at the other end of the visible electromagnetic spectrum
❤️Sugar is C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁
❤️And you release endorphins in my brain
#BeMyValentine
My Job Here Is Done:
🚌Two girls wait for the school bus
🚌Gordon, the family mastiff, waits on the driveway just a few feet away
🚌After the bus shows up and the girls board, Gordon trots back home
🚌A dog is the only thing on earth that #loves you more than he loves himself
#Ubiquitous Palindrome:
🧬Palindrome day
🧬02.02.2020
🧬2020.02.02
🧬No matter how a culture writes the date, it remains a #palindrome (reads the same forward and backward)
🧬It’s the first time in 909 years that the date is a palindrome worldwide
🧬International palindrome
Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide:
🦒Angry giraffe chases tourists
🦒In scenes reminiscent of the T-Rex chase in the film Jurassic Park, the giraffe (towers ~18 feet tall) gallops behind the vehicle
🦒Hot pursuit
🦒The tourists try to accelerate away
🦒Not in the best of moods
2019-nCoV:
🦠Genome of Wuhan #coronavirus is 29,903 bases, little genetic variation between patient samples
🦠Coronavirus is #zoonotic, jumps from animals to humans
🦠SARS coronavirus jumped from bats to civets to humans
🦠MERS coronavirus jumped from bats to camels to humans
Grand Prismatic Spring:
🌈#Hot springs form when hot water emerges through cracks in the Earth’s surface
🌈The water at the center is very hot, it cools as it spreads out across the spring’s surface
🌈Yellow, orange, red pigments are produced by bacteria as a natural sunscreen
Cell #Cytoskeleton:
🧫A structural scaffold giving the cell shape
🧫An intracellular transport system
🧫A driver of cell motility
🧫A mediator of cell division
🧫#Microfilaments made of #actin monomers (purple)
🧫#Microtubules made of #tubulin dimers (orange)
@JeffreyHaren