Instrument Manager. Science Communicator. I try to raise awareness of science to the public through blogging.

Joined September 2013
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The Epcot Center theme park at Disney World in Florida has a "space elevator" that virtually brings everyone 400 km into space.

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“I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.” - Richard Feynman (1964 Cornell Lecture)
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Thomas Deininger is a Rhode Island-based artist who creates complex sculptures from discarded objects and plastic waste to highlight issues of consumption, waste, and environmental pollution. Watch this 🤯 📹 tdeininger
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He drove 150 miles to a math conference at Yale University. When the conference was over, he forgot he came by car, so he returned home by bus. The next morning, he went out to his garage to get his car, discovered it was missing, and complained to the police that while he was away, someone stole his car. -- Anecdote as recounted by Howard Eves about the father of Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener
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I wouldn’t be where I am today without the love and support that @MichelleObama has poured into me over the years. Her story — from her South Side roots to the White House and beyond — is a central part of the Obama Presidential Center.
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Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring. When something ceases to be mysterious it ceases to be of absorbing interest to scientists. Almost all things scientists think and dream about are mysterious. -- Freeman Dyson
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Smart polar bear spreads its body weight to avoid falling through thin ice.

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"The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday." - Erwin Schrödinger
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It was great meeting with the talented folks who’ll be working at the Obama Presidential Center. We're excited to welcome everybody here soon!
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The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all. - Kurt Gödel
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Mori3 is a modular robot made of triangular modules that reshape on demand, forming arms, walkers or tracks and saving space in spacecraft.

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"You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff." - Richard Feynman
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Trigonometry patterns.
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“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value” -Albert Einstein
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This woman moved in for a closer shot of a shoal of sardines What happened next blew her mind

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"People think of education as something they can finish." - Isaac Asimov
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Physics in real world
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