Science Educator 🐸 🌎 | Dept Head at Lisle HS | JV G 🏀 Coach

Joined February 2013
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Becky Schwartz retweeted
Apr 11
Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶 The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.
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Becky Schwartz retweeted
Apr 3
We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.
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Becky Schwartz retweeted
Hang it in the Louvre 🖼️ #MarchMadness
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This morning, around 2:20 AM, a new #Kilauea eruption began within Kaluapele (the summit caldera). It was caught on camera by #HVO's B2cam. Images taken by the webcam were compiled into this timelapse video that shows lava fountains feeding lava flows across the caldera floor.
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Becky Schwartz retweeted
Short video of the current Kīlauea eruption from the west caldera wall.
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THE HUMAN BODY 1: Number of bones: 206 2: Number of bones of a newborn baby: 306 3: Number of muscles: 639 4: Number of kidneys: 2 5: Number of baby teeth: 20 6: Number of adult teeth: 32 7: Number of ribs: 24 8: Number of heart chambers: 4 9: Largest artery: aorta 10: Normal blood pressure: 120/80 Mm hg 11: Blood pH: 7.4 12: Number of vertebrae in the spine: 33 13: Number of neck vertebrae: 7 14: Number of bones in the middle ear: 6 15: Number of face bones: 14 16: Number of skull bones: 22 17: Number of chest bones: 25 18: Number of arm’s bones: 6 19: Number of arm’s muscles: 72 20: Smaller muscle: stapedius (6 mm) 21: Largest and most resistant bone: femur 22: Number of foot bones: 33 23: Number of bones in each wrist: 8 24: Number of bones in each hand: 27 25: Largest organ: skin 26: Heaviest internal organ and largest gland: liver 27: Largest cell: egg cell 28: Smallest cell: spermatozoon 29: Smallest bone: ossicle of the middle ear 30: Average length of the small intestine: 7 m 31: Average length of the large intestine: 1.5 m 32: Average heartbeat frequency: 72 bpm 33: Normal average body temperature: 37°C (98.4°F) 34: Average blood volume: 4.5 / 5.5 liters 35: Average life span of a red blood cell: 120 days 36: Average life span of a white blood cell: 10/15 days 37: Average life span of a platelet: 5/9 days 38: Average gestation period: 280 days (40 weeks) 39: Largest endocrine cell: thyroid 40: Largest lymphatic organ: spleen 41: Number of chromosomes: 46 42: Averagle blood viscosity: 3.5 / 5.5 cP 43: Universal donor blood type: O 44: Universal recipient blood type: AB 45: Largest white blood cell: monocyte 46: Smallest white blood cell: lymfocite 47: Number of cranial nerves: 12 pairs 48: Number of spinal nerves: 31 pairs 49: Approximate number of cells: ~ 30 trillions 50: Average number of neurons: ~ 86 billions The human body is an amazing machine, but don’t forget that nature wants 5 of your 7 children dead. It wants you dead by 40. Everything better than that is brought to you by science.
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Becky Schwartz retweeted
Chilling together in the pond x.com/i/status/1803410433111…

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JV with a 40 to 37 win against Montini to take third at the Saint Francis XMas tournament. They have won 6 out of their last 7 games to push their record to 9–5. #TrustTheProcess #DoTheLittleThings
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What a great field trip to NUHS today! Students learned about the anatomical gift donation process as well as programs related to chiropractic medicine, naturopathic medicine, acupuncture, and biomedical sciences. Thanks to @nuhsedu for hosting us!
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What is the most spook-tacular nebula in the galaxy? One contender is LDN 43, which bears an astonishing resemblance to a vast cosmic bat flying amongst the stars on a dark Halloween night. Located about 1400 light years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, this molecular cloud is dense enough to block light not only from background stars, but from wisps of gas lit up by the nearby reflection nebula LBN 7. Far from being a harbinger of death, this 12-light year-long filament of gas and dust is actually a stellar nursery. Glowing with eerie light, the bat is lit up from inside by dense gaseous knots that have just formed young stars. Credit & Copyright: Mark Hanson and Mike Selby; Text: Michelle Thaller (NASA's GSFC)
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🚨 Rays Update! 🚨 The cownose stingrays from @tropicanafield have been safely relocated to The Florida Aquarium’s Stingray Beach habitat! 🏖️  Despite the stadium’s damage from Hurricane Milton, the stingrays remained safe in their 10,000-gallon home beyond right-center field.
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Aerial footage shows Hurricane Milton's damage to a Publix and homes in Palm Beach County, Florida. Video 2: Hurricane Milton's tear of destruction across Florida left more than 3.4 million homes and businesses without power around 4 a.m. Thursday, according to PowerOutages.us. Video 3: Footage shows damage after 17 tornadoes touched down in St. Lucie County 🌪️ Video 4: Drone video captures devastation from Hurricane Milton in Grove City and Manasota Key, Florida.⁣ #HurricaneMilton #PalmBeachCounty #StormDamage #AerialFootage #PublixDamage #FloridaWeather #BreakingNews #KristyTallman #StormWatch #HurricaneSeason #PowerOutages #TornadoDamage #StLucieCounty #Tornadoes #GroveCity #ManasotaKey #DroneFootage
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Hurricane #Milton is pictured as a Category 5 storm in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Yucatan Peninsula from the space station on Oct. 8, 2024.
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Inside Hurricane Milton, @saildrone reported wave height of 28.12 feet and wind gusts as strong as 75.95 mph while 40 nautical miles from the center of the storm. This research represents a collaborative endeavor to better understand the role of the ocean in hurricanes.
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Becky Schwartz retweeted
9 Oct 2024
Hurricane Milton hits Florida - as seen from space. Abundant lightning can be seen in southern Florida, where numerous tornadoes occurred today.
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The roof of Tropicana Field, home of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team, was ripped apart by Hurricane Milton.
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The International Space Station captured a view of Hurricane Milton, and it’s a monster ⬇️
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Here’s what we know right now on Hurricane Milton:
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My small but mighty Anatomy class showing off their cell posters. 💪🏼
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An incredible 3 to nearly 4 feet of rain estimated by Doppler radar over the last 3 days on the peaks of the mountains near #Asheville North Carolina from #Helene #Hurricane Helene Results in the worst flooding there in memory.
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