Seven Lakes Citizen Scientists Team

citizen scientists from the city of seven lakes | philippines

[Seven Lakes Citizen Scientists Team @7LakesScience]

a year of citizen science work for the team! celebrating with this new logo for the group! #7lakesscience #7lakescitizenscience #7lakescitizenscientists #7lakescitizenscientiststeam

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

One pretty cool geological fun fact is that the Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range, once connected as the Central Pangean Mountains

[source: https://t.co/u9taoxtSFe]
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[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Distance to the moon 🌕

In 129 BC Hipparchus used the following method to determine the distance to the Moon.

[USGS @USGS]

[FAQ] #DidYouKnow that approximately 90% of the world's #earthquakes occur in the "Ring of Fire," the most seismically and volcanically active zone in the world? https://t.co/85iZVmmdcq #DYK

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

A simple formula relating e, π, i, and φ, the golden ratio.

[DOST Philippines @DOSTphl]

#RizalPHScientist The Dr. Jose P. Rizal: The Filipino Scientist Magazine is out now! It features the life and works of Rizal as a scientist, and how his contributions made impact in the Filipinos' lives today.

Download here: https://t.co/bOUIrb7Nuj

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

LaTeX was only released in 1984. In the pre-LaTeX era it was common for papers to have hand written formulas and diagrams. Here is a Richard Feynman's PhD thesis, published in 1942.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Wise words from literature laureate Wole Soyinka. Soyinka is a strong advocate for the importance of education.

[dostpcaarrd @dostpcaarrd]

Ang sagot sa tanong #AgriSyunaryo ay ‘Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus (TYLCV).’ 👍

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

A Quine is a computer program which takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output.

Here is an example of a quine in Python:

_='_=%r;print _%%_';print _%_

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

The symbol ∮ - the contour integral - was first used by the physicist Arnold Sommerfeld in 1917.

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Piano Shape 🎹

A lot of pianos looks like an exponential because for waves on a string, doubling length means reducing a music pitch by an octave (2x the frequency).

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

If the multiverse is real, perhaps in one of the universes the stars gaze back at us.

[Nat Geo Travel @NatGeoTravel]

A kitten aboard a floating Victoria water lily pad, Philippines.

[New Scientist @newscientist]

A giant crustacean in an aquarium in Japan was thought to be a familiar variety of deep-sea isopod. Turns out it's a completely new species https://t.co/ozEEJVNPPb

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Linus Pauling is the only person to have received two unshared Nobel Prizes - in chemistry and peace.

He used quantum mechanics to understand and describe chemical bonding. Later he campaigned vehemently against nuclear weapons and spearheaded a petition to ban nuclear testing.

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

It takes more than 1 year to safely accelerate close to the speed of light without experiencing g-forces that would destroy the human body (at 1 g)

[Seven Lakes Citizen Scientists Team @7LakesScience]

@dostpcaarrd #Katuray

[dostpcaarrd @dostpcaarrd]

Ang sagot sa tanong #AgriSyunaryo ay ‘Tilapia.’ 👍

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Erwin Schrödinger's lectures, 'What is Life?', later published in book form, influenced a wide range of scientists including James Watson and Francis Crick, who wrote to Schrödinger on his 66th birthday (12 August 1953), thanking him for the inspiration.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

In developing quantum mechanical theory, physicist Paul Dirac, born #OnThisDay 120 years ago, predicted that all matter has a kind of mirror image - antimatter. Dirac's theory would later be proved experimentally.

He shared the #NobelPrize in 1933 with Erwin Schrödinger.