eSagan 🇮🇳 @crackurbones@qoto.org

As the chase for new elements slows, scientists focus on deepening their understanding of the superheavy ones they already know. https://t.co/kGa5sgwcUh

https://twitter.com/NatureNews/status/1212403130933153794?s=19

TIL There exists a website https://www.geekmonkey.in/ for shopping 'quirky' gifts for men.

A Quantum Physicist Recommends The ‘Rule of Three’ To Simplify Complex Ideas
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2020/12/31/a-quantum-physicist-recommends-the-rule-of-three-to-simplify-complex-ideas/amp/

A new study finds that a home library can have a powerful effect on children. "A child growing up in a home with at least 80 books will have greater literacy and numeracy in adulthood." https://t.co/JuUoGVPNEf https://t.co/upuHTx7fXV

https://twitter.com/bigthink/status/1212316915475058688?s=19

#Thorium, #India's Solid-Fuel Approach, and Licensing Liquid-Fuel Reactors - TR2016c 3h06m07s17f
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTFOzHsbvAE

A growing body of evidence demonstrates that #climatechange and its effects are linked to elevated rates of #depression, #anxiety, suicidal ideation, post-traumatic stress (#PTSD), and a host of negative emotions.

https://t.co/yZuWYua1Sv

https://twitter.com/undarkmag/status/1212038184772784128?s=19

A team of scientists from the Research Center "Fundamental Problems of Thermophysics and Mechanics," of Samara Polytech is engaged in the construction of new mathematical models and the search for methods for their study in relation to a wide range of local nonequilibrium transport processes in various physical systems.
https://phys.org/news/2019-12-scientists-concept-mathematical.amp

Need a little #space on your wall? Download the printable Chandra #2020 #calendar filled with spectacular images from the 20th anniversary year of #NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory!📆 It's #free! https://t.co/Ct8CSGidLU #Chandra20 #HappyNewYear! 🎉 https://t.co/uH2FTIZ80B
https://twitter.com/chandraxray/status/1211666295286124545?s=19

Open Source #QuantumComputing: Write Your Own Quantum Programs

https://youtu.be/UgqLi1itWmk

Ussingite with Hackmanite from Russia. It looks magical under UV light!
https://www.reddit.com/r/MineralPorn/comments/ehge74/ussingite_with_hackmanite_from_russia_it_looks/

Six Eclipses, Three Supermoons and A Rare ‘Great Solstice Appulse’: A Skywatcher’s Guide To 2020
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2019/12/27/six-eclipses-four-supermoons-and-a-rare-great-solstice-appulse-a-skywatchers-guide-to-2020/amp/

Meat-eating continues despite the evidence that it is a hazard to human health and the environment, and that animals suffer. Why, despite all of the information, is meat-eating so intractable?
https://twitter.com/aeonmag/status/1211346454402551808

Link to the article: https://aeon.co/essays/face-it-a-farmed-animal-is-someone-not-something

#Probiotics Are Everywhere. Scientists Still Can’t Agree if They Actually Help
https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/probiotics-are-everywhere-scientists-still-cant-agree-if-they-actually-help

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.
~ Jonathan Gotschall

Nature Podcast
PastCast: The Quantum Theory
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03787-8

#QuantumTeleportation Reported in a #Qutrit For The First Time
https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-teleportation-reported-in-a-qutrit-for-the-first-time/amp
Scientists were able to 'teleport' a qutrit, or a piece of quantum information based on three states, opening up a whole host of new possibilities for #quantumcomputing and communication.

The incredible chemistry powering your smartphone | Cathy Mulzer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmY1Dr2iQ_Q
https://quey.org/@YouTube/103357553357664016

Making Things We Know Will Disappear

When kids decide to create something, a kind of magic happens – they just start creating it. They build and make and design all at once without hesitation or fear. The things break and fall down, and they just try again. Sometimes they “make” things just in the world of their imagination, creating elaborate landscapes or histories or machines or friends that never leave the world of pretend. They still throw themselves into that process without concern or shame.

But somewhere on the journey out of childhood, something happens: We start to care. We decide that, if we are going to bother to create something, it should be “good.” Or more extreme, we decide that it should be “important.”

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/budding-scientist/making-things-we-know-will-disappear/