
Charles
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Photographer, physicist, woodworker, and political moderate (leaning liberal).
United States of America
Joined March 2008
JetBlue 592 from TPA to BOS last night paths with the Harvest Moon. Photographed from Sandy Point State Park, Annapolis, Maryland, USA @ 2100 on 18 October 2024. @JetBlue
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“Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.” - Galileo Galilei.
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A cat co-authored a scientific paper in 1975, when his owner, a physicist named Jack H. Hetherington, decided to add him as a second author to avoid changing the plural pronouns in his manuscript. The cat’s name was Chester, and he was given the pen name F.D.C. Willard, which
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A jogger’s ponytail sways from side to side as the jogger runs, although the head only moves vertically. It turns out the vertical motion is unstable to lateral perturbations. More on why that's the case in today's paper: https://t.co/NeicOW39Cv
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Ever heard somebody saying 'Our city can't change, we are not like Amsterdam!' Well, neither was #Amsterdam. It took bold choices and consistent -and ongoing- efforts. —Zeilstraat, Amsterdam in the 1970s
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Money only impresses those who’ve never had it. Work for legacy, not currency.
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You may not know you needed to hear Hillbilly-Asian Fusion music, but you do. Wait for the Asian to fuse, baby…
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Take the alphabet and do the following conversion: A = 1 B = 2 C = 3 ... Z = 26 Words are sums of the corresponding letter values. The word PRIME is prime.
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I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made) I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours
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Check out new work on my @Behance profile: "Class Project 02" https://t.co/jJCfI22DkW
@danlovesadobe I find PremierePro more intuitive than Behance. Excellent course BTW.
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Check out new work on my @Behance profile: "PremierePro Essentials Class Project 03" https://t.co/pLcTVXqQqR
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For the first time in nearly 50 years, the Adams County SPCA has no dogs left to adopt. #MerryChristmas
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Happy 136th Birthday to Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-taught Indian mathematical genius. He discovered nearly 4,000 theorems and equations, unique and groundbreaking. Some of his results were so advanced that they were not proven until decades after his death. Today, India
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This animation shows the irrationality of pi through the rotation of two rods, each with a constant but different speed. Despite the intricate patterns they create, the rotations never perfectly align, highlighting pi's infinite, non-repeating decimal nature. This emphasizes
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German girl demonstrating that SU(2) double covers SO(3), a.k.a, the Balinese Cup Trick, or Dirac’s Belt Trick. This is the basic reason a doubly quantised vortex in an SO(3) superfluid is topologically equivalent to the vortex-free state. See also
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Born #Today in 1914, Hedy Lamarr was one of the most prominent actresses of the Hollywood's Golden Age: what we generally ignore is that she was a scientist and co-inventor of the spread spectrum technology
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