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It's a #RedSnowDay in #KCMO! Most schools & cultural institutions, including @LindaHall_org, are closed so people can celebrate the @Chiefs' #SuperBowl victory.
The image below, featuring actual #RedSnow, is from John Ross, A Voyage of Discovery (1819).
#histSTM #ChiefsKingdom
Ogden Nicholas Rood, American physicist whose work on color theory may have inspired the Neo-Impressionists, is @LindaHall_org's Scientist of the Day!
https://t.co/oDdaMscrHp
#histSTM #arthistory #sciart
"Wow! Look at all the parallels! Thanks, History - You're the best!"
#Doonesbury
(cc: @KevinMKruse)
Michael Light is a San Francisco-based photographer, whose work looks at the environment, cartography & geologic time.
Appropriately given @LindaHall_org's #Apollo50 exhibit, he's the author of #FullMoon, a retrospective album of space photos. https://t.co/yL5ocP8MHm
#LHLLive
How can the writings of Friedrich #Nietzsche enhance our understanding of modern science?
Find out tomorrow at a #philsci lecture by @LindaHall_org research fellow Will Parkhurst.
Registration & livestream details: https://t.co/PEsRzkecGV
(Img HT @existentialcoms)
#histSTM
Today's #histSTM lunchtime read: Celebrate the 200th birthday of #WaltWhitman with this article exploring the role of science in his poems, courtesy of the @WhitmanArchive.
https://t.co/uASDiUGtAG
#WaltWhitman200 #poetry
Catherine (Kate) Furbish—American botanist who collected & illustrated the flora of #Maine—was born #OTD 1834.
More on her life via:
* @bowdoinlibrary-https://t.co/X4pMZ16eso
* @MagazineofMaine-https://t.co/OSFaI63O68
#histSTM #WomenInSTEM #sciart #SciArtSunday
Check out this incredible "Family Portrait" of all the spacecraft that humans have sent to #Mars. Further details and higher resolution scans via @exploreplanets: https://t.co/Ar4nxoDrnv
#LHLLive #infographic
He didn't just draw birds.
John James #Audubon-American naturalist and illustrator-is @LindaHall_org's Scientist of the Day!
https://t.co/r5xvZs7I7f
#histSTM #sciart
Grant: Zapping Martian minerals with X-rays resulted in diffraction patterns that suggested the presence of clays, which in turn implies the presence of water. And if there was water...then perhaps there was life? #LHLLive