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Alex Kampas ⚛️ 🪐🚀🌌in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Physicist, Teacher, Human; the order keeps changing.

Penarth, Wales, UK Katılım Nisan 2009
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@tfwrail service Penarth to Queen Street. Stops at Central, muffled tannoy, signs still show Queen Street next stop, but train reverses back to Penarth and conductor tells 20 people to pay return ticket even if the service was cancelled while on board. £7.40 and still in Penarth.
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@SkaitvGR το πρόγραμμα που «παιζει» στο σάιτ ως live TV έχει μείνει σε αυτό που θα παίζατε χωρίς εκλογές λέει TV-Only και «παίζει» Βουτσά. Δε βλέπουμε τίποτα.
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Randall Munroe
Randall Munroe@xkcd·
Types of Eclipse Photo xkcd.com/2917
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Randall Munroe
Randall Munroe@xkcd·
Eclipse Coolness xkcd.com/2914
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OpenMind
OpenMind@openmind_mag·
In this essay, academic, author, and broadcaster @jimalkhalili breaks down why many explanations that scientists call “simple”—such as the idea that the Earth revolves around the sun—really aren’t simple at all. openmindmag.org/articles/the-d… #science
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Jared Isaacman
Jared Isaacman@rookisaacman·
I’m gunning for Snap @johnkrausphotos job. Lucky pic 1,200nm downrange of tonight’s Falcon launch.
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WJEC@wjec_cbac·
Past Papers are a revision must at any point of the year, giving students a better understanding of how an exam works and the type of questions to expect in future papers! Check out our library of past papers and mark schemes for your subjects! 👇 bit.ly/3S6pDPQ
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Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️
Sorry but I have to share a bit more of this morning’s Downeast Maine meteorology magic, with 15F overnight chill clashing with far warmer sea temperatures, creating an astonishing frost crystal cloak on marsh grasses and drifting sea mist.
Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️@Revkin

Stunning frost on our shorefront salt marsh this morning. #winterishere #wxtwitter #mainelife

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Fermat's Library
Fermat's Library@fermatslibrary·
In the heart of World War II, as the Nazis took control of Copenhagen, a peculiar situation took place at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, led by physicist Niels Bohr. Two Nobel laureates Max von Laue and James Franck, fearing the confiscation of their gold Nobel Prize medals by the Nazis, had sent their medals to Bohr for safekeeping. On the day the Nazis arrived in Copenhagen, Hungarian chemist Georgy de Hevesy, who was working in Bohr's lab, devised a plan to prevent the discovery of the medals. Initially considering burying the medals, they quickly dismissed the idea, fearing the thorough searches the Nazis would conduct. Instead, de Hevesy proposed a chemical solution — literally. Utilizing a mixture known as "aqua regia" (a blend of hydrochloric and nitric acids), he set about dissolving the gold medals. This concoction is one of the few substances capable of dissolving gold, a notably unreactive element. As the Nazis marched outside, de Hevesy dissolved the precious medals, reducing them to a colorless solution that eventually turned bright orange. The liquid containing the dissolved gold was then placed on a high shelf in the laboratory, where it remained unnoticed throughout the Nazi occupation​. Post World War II, upon returning to the laboratory after V-E Day, de Hevesy found the beaker undisturbed on the shelf. The gold was recovered from the solution and returned to the Nobel Prize committee, who then reminted the medals and presented them back to Laue and Franck in a ceremony in 1952.
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