Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@qoto.org
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
@freemo There will be an exclusion clause if you have American cheese. Probably in the suicide section.
@freemo I think you need welfare as well as UBI.
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Dorothy L. Sayers English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic died #OTD in 1957. She wrote numerous mystery stories featuring the witty and charming Lord Peter Wimsey combined the attractions of scholarly erudition and cultural small talk with the puzzle of detection. In her later years she turned from detective fiction to writing theological plays and books. She made scholarly translations of Dante’s Inferno and Purgatorio.
Dorothy L. Sayers at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/45867
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William Thomson, Baron Kelvin Irish engineer, mathematician, and physicist died #OTD in 1907.
Absolute temperatures are stated in units of kelvin in his honour. While the existence of a coldest possible temperature, known as absolute zero, was known prior to his work, Kelvin is known for determining its correct value as approximately −273.15 degrees Celsius. Kelvin's work in thermodynamics led to the idea that energy can not pass spontaneously from a colder object to a hotter object.
@freemo I had bacon-wrapped ones once.
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#Jasper
is an opaque variety of silica with a diverse range of colors and patterns. While most people associate it with red, the reality is much more diverse. Here's an overview of the different types and colors of jasper:
https://www.geologyin.com/2023/12/jasper-types-and-varieties-of-jasper.html?fbclid=IwAR1Vimh8LJl5aoBXaN9Ba2LTdrvlT9mCXXgnhXSEywrJXz5s4NXO4NuEQfE
By #GeologyWonders
#Geology #GeologyPage #Nature #minerals #crystals #gems #Nature #NatureLovers #NaturePhotography #Photographer
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In August 1908, Hans Geiger published the first “gold foil” experiment which he conducted under Ernest Rutherford. There were many gold foil experiments, but this was the first. These experiments, also called the Geiger-Marsden experiments, were a driving factor behind the shift away from J. J. Thomson’s “plum pudding.” Then, in the gold foil experiments, alpha particles were shot at a very thin sheet of gold foil.
via Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics
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The cherry on top of the shit sundae that is this climate denier president of the #cop28, is that his comment about "No science" backing up the need to phase out fossil fuels was while he spoke over (or mansplained) the actual guests in a talk called SHE CHANGES CLIMATE, a women-only panel about female perspectives on climate change.
He also topped it off by saying "I'm the man in charge".
The metaphor of ignorant toxic patriarchal capitalism would be too on the nose for fiction. But it's real
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Police make 630 arrests of climate protesters in London in one month.
U.K.'s ‘staggering and shocking’ statistic as anti-protest legislation is enacted.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/04/police-arrest-climate-protesters-london
@sciencebase I take it that you were kept in the pit to avoid an 18 certificate.😉
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Belgian philosopher, cartographer & mathematician Gerardus Mercator died #OTD in 1594.
He made the group of stars we know as Coma Berenices into an official constellation. He also made terrestrial & celestial globes and was one of the 1st to show the now-obsolete constellation Antinous on a star globe, this being on one he made in 1551. The 47 km diameter lunar crater Mercator, located on the south western edge of Mare Nubium, is named in his honour. via SocietyHistoryAstronomy
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Really, really interesting.
Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell | Ep 17 Can Parliament Take Back Control? on Podbean. https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-jh7cs-1c27e0d5
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Russian mathematician and geometer Nikolai Lobachevsky was born #OTD in 1792.
He is known primarily for his work on hyperbolic geometry, otherwise known as Lobachevskian geometry, and also for his fundamental study on Dirichlet integrals, known as the Lobachevsky integral formula.
Another of his achievements was developing a method for the approximation of the roots of algebraic equations (Lobachevsky method). via @wikipedia
@sciencebase They could learn from cats how to look like they meant to make a cods of it afterwards. Ours was good at that with butterflies she missed completely.
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We would like to make tungsten needles for doing our dissections. Does anyone know where we can get size 0.008 tungsten wire? We would prefer to have it in the form of 3 ft rods if possible. #Drosophila #microscopy
@sciencebase Not so much a 'stoop' as a 'flop'.
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"We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us."
The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles
Canadian Author Lucy Maud Montgomery was born #OTD in 1874. Most of her novels were set on Prince Edward Island, and those locations within Canada's smallest province became a literary landmark and popular tourist site – namely Green Gables farm, the genesis of Prince Edward Island National Park.
L. M. Montgomery at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/36
@sciencebase Spawny get.
@sciencebase Is it still called a 'stoop' if it's a wol?
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
