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And we're live! Please join us for the final @histmedtech session on instruments.
Note: Contrary to @jaivirdi's generous intro, I probably won't be livetweeting since I will be moderating the discussion. (Maybe one of my #histSTM friends will step in?)
#histmedtech2021 #histSTM https://t.co/Jb74aYsl44
"You take a boat from China to the Netherlands. You gonna go around the Cape like a gentleman or cut through the #SuezCanal like some kind of Democrat?"
"Um...the canal?"
"You go around the Cape the way God intended!"
#BoJackHorseman
Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician and author of The New American Practical Navigator (which remains in print over 200 yrs later!), is @LindaHall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay!
https://t.co/6yEVf5pQzZ
#histSTM #mathematics #navigation #physics
Sister: Did you hear @planetmoney tried to buy the rights to a @Marvel superhero.
Me: Which one?
Sister: He's really obscure.
Me: OK--Which one?
Sister: Have you ever heard of #Doorman?
Me: From the Great Lakes #Avengers?
Sister: ...Yes.
https://t.co/SJhSfdcveg
#OpenTheDoorman
Ashton Lever (an English natural history collector) *and* Sarah Stone (an English watercolor artist & illustrator) are @LindaHall_org's Scientists of the Day!
https://t.co/KIWLWvFANZ
#histSTM #sciart
#WomenInSTEM #ScientistOfTheDay
🎶Cruisin' on down Main Street,
You're relaxed and feelin' good.
Next thing that you know you're facin'
Problems posed by Philippa Foot!🎶
[Meme spotted on FB]
#philosophy #TrolleyProblem
#MagicSchoolBus #SeatbeltsEveryone
Gerard O'Neill, American physicist, space advocate, and visioneer (HT @LeapingRobot) was born #OnThisDay in 1927.
Read more about his dream to colonize "The High Frontier" in this 1977 @newscientist article: https://t.co/Ta6ppGFO69
#histSTM #SpaceStations
George Ehret, German botanical artist whose painting of a tri-petal magnolia (seen here) appears in Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, was born #OnThisDay in 1708.
Learn more in @LindaHall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay profile: https://t.co/ljQQjxerzR
#histSTM #sciart
Auguste Piccard, a Swiss physicist, balloonist, and the inspiration for one of fiction's most famous absent-minded professors (#Tintin's Prof. Tournesol/Calculus), is @LindaHall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay!
https://t.co/xdolbTLbmC
#histSTM #aviation
#physics #Herge