Lucas Eichner

Wake up each morning with the knowledge from yesterday's mistakes. Snapchat: l_diablo98

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

It’s starting to feel as strange and confusing as it is frustrating that there’s been so little about climate change at the Democratic debates. (1/3)

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

Artist Klaus Littmann planted a forest in an Austrian stadium to raise awareness for climate change and deforestation.

Incredible 🌳 (h/t @brfootball)

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Chips Ahoy

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Dark matter, just to clarify, being unidentified matter that this far has only been observed to interact with ordinary matter through gravity.

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Fact of the Day: Dark matter accounts for about 85% the gravity of the universe - @neiltyson

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Fact of the Day: It is estimated that about 1% of animal species are obligate tool users (they completely rely on the use of tools). 1% translates to tens of thousands of species, depending on your choice of overall animal species estimates.

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Fact of the Day: A Thought is a series of neurons sending signals in your brain; a cascading waterfall of electromagnetic signals flowing from axons to dendrites at a synapse - the connection between neurons. 🧠

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Driving down State Street this morning I watched a man dig through a garbage can, pull out a cigarette butt and proceed to light and smoke it. #ErieAdvantage

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Fact of the Day: A high daily dose of fish oil a day can increase dopamine in the prefrontal cortex.

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Fact of the Day: Jupiter’s moon, Europa, holds more liquid water than all of the Earth’s oceans combined.

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Don’t be the weakness others pity for; be the strength that inspires them

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Fact of the Day: Every second, approximately 100 trillion neutrinos pass through your body. - Sean Carroll

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Fact of the Day: “The average American annually emits enough carbon to melt 10,000 tons of ice” -@dwallacewells

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Fact of the Day: When you sleep in an unfamiliar environment, only one half of your brain is able to fall into REM sleep which prevents you from obtaining a full night of rest.

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Fact of the Day: In 1998, scientists discovered that not only is the universe expanding, but it is accelerating. The older a galaxy becomes, the faster it accelerates away from you in space.

[Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll]

Atmospheric simulations out of @Caltech suggest a potential new climate catastrophe: disappearing clouds could add as much as 8°C to global warming in the next century. By @nattyover in @QuantaMagazine.
https://t.co/wO27fMTkJL

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Fact of the Day: Approximately 70% of the universe is made up of dark energy, another 25% is dark matter, leaving only about 5% of the universe to be visually observable matter.

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Fact of the day: A female woolly mammoth would be pregnant for 2 years before giving birth.

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Fact of the day: We confirmed the existence of planets outside our solar system for the first time in 1992. 27 years later we have confirmed the existence of 2950 exoplanets.

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@elonmusk can you send @eddiebravo to space to see the shape of the earth??