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Here's a thread from this past Quantum Day about Planck's work, evidence for the reality of quanta, how it was actually Planck who introduced "Boltzmann's constant," and physicists gradually dropping the term "quanta" in favor of (1/2)
skies
The flying clouds urged on in swiftest pace
Like living things as if they runned a race
The winds that oer each coming tempest broods
Waking like spirits in their startling moods
https://t.co/Pjz6ftjlzl (2/2)
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A fascinating view of Martian moon Phobos crossing the face of the Sun captured from the surface of Mars by NASA’s Perseverance rover on April 2, 2022.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/SSI
Further reading: (1/2)
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This is how higher ed gets saved: "higher-paid tenured professors are refusing to go home with a deal... until part-time professors and graduate workers’ demands are met in a reasonable way." #highered#labor#unions#rutgers#strike (1/2)
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imagine living in a country where healthcare was socialized, and GoFundMe was full of CEOs with terrible ideas begging for investment money
https://t.co/HszWDR1vNt
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👋 Hello #fediverse! I'm going into a meeting at 4ET to talk about our newsroom's social media options.
If you think our station and other #NPR stations should have a Mastodon server and a broader presence in the #fediverse, pls boost this (1/2)
RT @[email protected]#AmazingWorld#Prague#Clock
The Prague astronomical clock, installed in 1410. It is the world's oldest astronomical clock still in operation.
https://t.co/IkW3ljGO8O
https://t.co/8j4PNxrGDK
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Professor Doherty won the Nobel prize for co-discovering “how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells”—specifically T cell-mediated immunity.
https://t.co/5hHCiafz9P
https://t.co/H1wr7cne3R
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) has introduced a bill that would end corporate personhood with the goal of reversing #citizensunited
Thank you,
thank you, thank you RepJayapal
We should keep pushing this until it is impossible to ignore. (1/2)