The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration has released their latest results, including this image of polarized light from the region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
Physicist Caroline Herzenberg was born #OTD in 1932. She is known for pioneering early work in Mössbauer spectroscopy, including an analysis of the first samples returned from the moon by the Apollo astronauts.
Image: Herzenberg as Finalist in the 1949 Science Talent Search
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that if you set aside six hours to work on a really complicated project, you’ll have your only good insight in the last five minutes, or maybe the next day in the shower.
@lffontenelle I used GNOME for years. At one point (early-mid 2000s) my gtk2 and metacity themes had over quarter-million downloads on the old gnome themes website!
Physicist Robert Millikan was born #OTD in 1868. He is best known for the “oil drop” experiment with Harvey Fletcher that measured the charge of the electron, but his next experiment – meant to disprove Einstein's assertion of the reality of quanta – may have been even more important.
• Save this as an application called "DesktopHide." • Repeat these steps with "false" replaced by "true" • Save this one as an application called "DesktopShow"
Now you have two little apps to hide/show ur desktop. Use them.
Pro tip. (Amateur tip, really.) When you are giving a webinar directly from your computer, hide your desktop. Especially if your collection of scanned books is right there. This is right up there with blurring or cropping your browser tabs in screenshots.
@sudnadja Oh nice, thanks for the link! I'll have a look at how they draw their diagrams. Unfortunately, that demo does things like draw colliding field lines. But it's better than other examples I've seen.
Not to brag, but I am currently ranked number one on my university's "didn't click on any of our simulated phishing attacks" leaderboard. My secret is that I ignore practically every email I receive.
@Guildz Picked a set of points near + charge, checked V_pt at each, found integral curves of E numerically (parameterized by V) that start at V_pt and extend to -V_pt, plotted them (ParametricPlot) on top of equipotentials (ContourPlot).