🌌¿Sabías que algunos de los paisajes más misteriosos de nuestro Sistema Solar podrían haber sido excavados por agua líquida? 🤯 Una nueva investigación sugiere que las cárcavas del asteroide Vesta podrían haberse formado por la acción de breves corrientes de agua salada 💧✨
Today I submitted my first podcast for Hacker Public Radio. I literally wrote a script for myself to deliver, turned on the recorder and read it. I saved the result, filled out a form, attached my file and now it's in the queue to go out. Thanks for hosting my show #HackerPublicRadio#HPR
@JonTheNiceGuy I am genuinely shocked by this... I didn't realise that you'd never submitted an episode before. I look forward to listening to your dulcet tones on the podwaves once more... it's been too long!
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...as long as you like tip up in a right hand pocket. Which I just happen to prefer. Of those 6 knives you can only swap 2 to a left hand carry. And only one to a tip up or down carry.
I'm slightly ambidextrous. Fine motor movements I use my left hand. Gross motor movements, my right hand. (I.E. I use a right handed mouse in my left hand. I just angle it so my left index finger is on the 1 button.)
So, I guess cutting tape and cardboard is a gross motor movement! :P
Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 1/2
Found in the Grotte du Placard à Vilhonneur (Charente). Photo: RMNGP/MAN
Happy Birthday to Émilie Du Châtelet (Dec 17, 1706 - Sep 10, 1749), French natural philosopher, mathematician and physicist.
A fierce advocate of women's education, Du Châtelet wrote -
“If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind. This new system of education that I propose would in all respects be beneficial to the human species ..."
Émilie du Châtelet, who hypothesized conservation of energy, established kinetic energy as distinct from momentum and proportional to (speed)², and combined work by Newton and Leibniz with her own original ideas in "Institutions de Physique," was born #OTD in 1706.
Du Châtelet is an important figure in the development of classical physics, but she is not nearly as well known as many of her male contemporaries.
@mcnees I was pretty sure I'd not heard of Madam du Châtelet, but apparently it is only my memory that is at fault. I pulled Volume III of the History of Science in Western Civilization text book for the course I took junior year at Cornell in the late '70's; while the index fails to include du Châtelet, she is included in the section titled "French Science during the Century of Lights". She's introduced as Voltaire's mistress, an accomplished mathematician and translator of the Principia.
@joeinwynnewood While I think it’s true that they had an affair, when books lead with that it detracts from her skills and accomplishments. And she really accomplished quite a bit!
Did something happen with Sequoia and sub-pixel font smoothing? For whatever reason my 1x display looks pretty good lately and doesn't want to make me toss it in the garbage.
For a while, I had a gig answering astronomy questions online.
When I got "what is that bright thing I saw in the sky?" questions, I'd guess "Venus" and then go look it up, putting their location and the time and direction of the observation into Stellarium. I'd say 98% of the time that guess was right.