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Rolando Garcia

@RatioScientiae

What is science, and how does it work? What are the limits of science? What masquerades as science? Why do some people attack science? Why should you care?

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Physics In History(@PhysInHistory) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that…

Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that…
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Prash(@prash_singh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My grandfather built motors that powered big machines. In a lab not so different from his workshop, my colleagues and I uncovered the assembly of the bacterial motor. Today, this discovery has been published in Nature Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4156…

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Andrew McCarthy(@AJamesMcCarthy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I pointed my modified solar telescope at a group of small sunspots to see what was happening. A chaotic mess of tangled magnetic fields was revealed by the incandescent plasma in the solar chromosphere. Our sun is quite interesting right now!

I pointed my modified solar telescope at a group of small sunspots to see what was happening. A chaotic mess of tangled magnetic fields was revealed by the incandescent plasma in the solar chromosphere. Our sun is quite interesting right now!
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Massimo(@Rainmaker1973) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Body transfer illusion is the illusion of owning a part of a body other than one's own. This is the famous rubber hand experiment and it tricks your brain.

[📹 Adley and Story House Media]

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Andrew McCarthy(@AJamesMcCarthy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I think Eclipses are officially my favorite thing to photograph.

Which do you like better, a Lunar Eclipse or Solar Eclipse? I think they both have their charms.

I think Eclipses are officially my favorite thing to photograph. Which do you like better, a Lunar Eclipse or Solar Eclipse? I think they both have their charms.
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Live Science(@LiveScience) 's Twitter Profile Photo

2,000-foot-wide 'potentially hazardous' asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth — and you can see it with a telescope trib.al/GBsfFaI

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Rolando Garcia(@RatioScientiae) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I published my book, and I take a proud look at it to find...typos! 🙄😡 But I just fixed them and republished (the advantages of an e-book). In a day or two the new version will replace the old one. amazon.com/dp/B0CW18RZY1

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Massimo(@Rainmaker1973) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This video produced for the Hubble travelling exhibition Our Place in Space, zooms from Venice out through the Solar System, the Milky Way, the Local Group and into the cosmic web.

And if you're feeling very small, that was the intent

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Massimo(@Rainmaker1973) 's Twitter Profile Photo

«The guitar itself didn't know that it could be played like this»

Guitarist Jinsan Kim plays an original composition with incredible skill.

[📹 JTBC Entertainment]

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Massimo(@Rainmaker1973) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How Japanese have produced wood for 700 years, without cutting down trees.

Daisugi is an ancient Japanese forestry technique developed in the 14th century originally used by people living in the Kitayama region, because the territory was extremely poor in saplings.

They…

How Japanese have produced wood for 700 years, without cutting down trees. Daisugi is an ancient Japanese forestry technique developed in the 14th century originally used by people living in the Kitayama region, because the territory was extremely poor in saplings. They…
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Cliff Pickover(@pickover) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Mathematics, physics, science fiction.

Shiver in delight and mystery. 20 examples of periodic solutions to the Three-Body Problem. Source (Perosello/Wikimedia): bit.ly/3w2bH26

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Wonder of Science(@wonderofscience) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Incredible footage of Saturn rising from behind the Moon during a lunar occultation captured from a ground based telescope by astronomer Jan Koet.

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