eSagan 🇮🇳 @crackurbones@qoto.org
Joined Nov 2019
#ISRO releases high-res images of #Qatar's capital city, #Doha, captured by #CartoSAT-3
https://in.news.yahoo.com/isro-releases-high-res-images-040155603.html
#CartoSAT3
A kite flying festival. Watercolour by an Indian artist, 19th century.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/eog3mg/a_kite_flying_festival_watercolour_by_an_indian/
A startling experimental discovery in 2013 set in motion a series of mathematical proofs that have unsettled centuries of thinking.
For Fluid Equations, a Steady Flow of Progress
https://www.quantamagazine.org/for-fluid-equations-a-steady-flow-of-progress-20200113/
An Earth-size planet in the habitable zone? New NASA discovery is one special world
https://www.space.com/amp/nasa-tess-exoplanet-habitable-zone-discovery-milestone.html
The Oldest Known Material on Earth Is Officially Older Than The Solar System
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-meteorite-discovered-in-australia-contains-oldest-known-material-on-earth/amp
India should lead in the fight against multidrug-resistant pathogens
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/india-should-lead-in-the-fight-against-multidrug-resistant-pathogens/article30544299.ece
#TIL On the etymology/origin of the word ‘titration’.
The word "titration" descends from the French word tiltre (1543), meaning the proportion of gold or silver in coins or in works of gold or silver; i.e., a measure of fineness or purity. Tiltre became titre,[4] which thus came to mean the "fineness of alloyed gold",[5] and then the "concentration of a substance in a given sample".[6] In 1828, the French chemist Gay-Lussac first used titre as a verb (titrer), meaning "to determine the concentration of a substance in a given sample".[7]
@design_RG I used lists extensively on Twitter. It isn't different here on Mastodon, as it seems, though I haven't created one here yet. @snow @twistylittlepassages
ITAP of Cenotaph in Drinking tea at least three times a week is linked with a longer and healthier life, Chinese researchers have found -- but the benefits of green tea are more pronounced https://t.co/qveP7nFWuG
The universe was filled with fog until three galaxies started clearing it out. https://t.co/74mx95dZl2
@snow On mastodon.social, Mastodon's default theme applies, which is the dark theme. You can change your theme on both the sites to whichever you prefer.
Mastodon.social fetches information of your profile from qoto.org, but everything on QOTO – like your profile's metadata – is not of the same format as in mastodon.social; QOTO has been modified to some extent. This creates some compatibility issues in federation. And then, it takes some time for one instance to fetch all the data from another instance.
Earth's most invasive species is a frog-killing fungus
http://pops.ci/qQ2DAj
https://twitter.com/PopSci/status/1216080099809906688?s=20
Meet the Mainframe - Meet My #Mainframe
https://youtu.be/C1YGE7m33iQ
A lack of sleep makes your brain eat itself, new research suggests. Glial cells are your brain’s loving caretakers -- until you deny them sleep: https://t.co/GHIDRPY1c7 https://t.co/nTY9mQz83O
https://twitter.com/bigthink/status/1215941051162267649?s=19
This material could camouflage objects from infrared cameras: Made of samarium nickel oxide, the thin coating “hides temperature information of surfaces from infrared cameras,” and could therefore be used as a privacy shield, says applied physicist Mikhail Kats of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-material-could-camouflage-objects-from-infrared-cameras/amp?__twitter_impression=true
🐤 https://twitter.com/ScienceNews/status/1215760980862521344?s=19
Just how there is a movement among IT professionals for Free and Open-Source Software (#FOSS), books and research papers must also be free (to obtain, distribute) and open for all. #Libgen and #SciHub must not be considered 'illegal' and piracy websites. They must be endorsed and celebrated by all. And (more) mainstream scholars must make their works free.
That said, scholars should have the right to get credit for their intellectual work -- just how Linus Torvalds gets acknowledged for creation of the Linux kernel -- but intellectual works must be made open and free for all.
@freemo Is it possible somehow to let users change their username?
🔥 Peacocks spotted on the outskirts of Mangalore, India 🔥
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/elsusq/peacocks_spotted_on_the_outskirts_of_mangalore/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
This Human Brain Tissue Survived Intact For 2,600 Years, And We May Finally Know How
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-study-could-explain-how-human-brain-tissue-remained-intact-for-2-600-years
Joined Nov 2019
