#Radioactivity

Nicole Scro

nmscro

Some positive news for 2020: not only are we replacing old roads named after white supremacists, but we're naming *new* ones not after some variant of shrubbery.The roads for the

James West

ejwwest

Let’s examine the “Galileo gambit” in more detail.If you’re a Hunter gatherer community or Neolithic farmer, the world is flat. In fact if you’re a medieval peasant who rarely goes

Jonas Svensson

jaralaus

Some thoughts on optional stopping methods, inspired by tweet from @Lakens https://twitter.com/lakens/status/1354427078368784388?s=20. The cast (in order of appearance): Sequential Bayes Factors (SBF), Sequential Probability Ratio Test (SPR

O.V.A.tion's™

Dre_Ova

10 Unlucky Inventors That Died By Their Own InventionsThread...1. Michael DacreDesigned the AVCEN Jetpod, a quiet Air-Taxi that could take off and land in short distances, The jet pod had

Robert McNees

mcnees

The physicist Lise Meitner was born #OTD in 1878. She discovered fission in uranium and was the first person to understand both its mechanics and implications.Image: Atomic Heritage Foundation (photographer

Dr Robin George Andrews 🌋

SquigglyVolcano

Buckle up, everyone, this story is *wild*.The 62-year-old Dyatlov Pass mystery, in which nine students died at the hands of an unknown force, has likely been solved thanks to the

Bruce Baird

drbairdonline

The kind of person who believes 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stacked in bags on a warehouse floor blasted a 43-meter deep crater in Beirut is the kind of person

WORM LOGO ΛPPRECIΛTOR

ademrudin

i am reading about the rocky flats nuclear weapons plant and these "key milestones" give you a taste of what is to come the tl;dr is they made plutonium "pits"

James Felton

JimMFelton

The man who drank radioactive juice until his bones crumbled and his jaw came off (Thread, sources here https://bit.ly/2N2rAyE ) In the early 20th Century, consuming radioactive materials or otherwise smearing

Stephen Schwartz

AtomicAnalyst

55 years ago this morning over Palomares, Spain, a B-52G bomber on airborne alert collided with a KC-135 tanker during a routine high-altitude refueling operation, killing all 4 tanker crew

Benjamin Chadwick

bchadwickfrance

#ClemmiesParisStories #7: perhaps France's most famous naturalised citizen, Marie Curie. 1/17 Maria Skłodowska was born in Warsaw in 1867. She began her studies there illegally – women in Poland were

Heather Archuletta

Pillownaut

#TriviaThursday 122 years ago this month, in December of 1898, Pierre and Marie Curie announced the Radium element to the world. Today's trivia series will be about their lives and

Nuclear Operator

NukeOperator

DEBUNKING 40 MYTHS ABOUT NUCLEAR ENERGYA thread written by @NukeOperator (Engineer, Senior Reactor Operator and Nuclear Power Plant Shift Manager), and reviewed by @JosepRey_ and @maesetote MYTH #1: “A

Bruce Baird

drbairdonline

WHERE could the immense ENERGY needed to destroy the WTC on 9/11 AND maintain hot spots in the ground for 99 days have come from? Many observers have judged NO

Tim Korevaar

TimKorevaar

A tweetorial on hyperthyroidism during pregnancy.Following yesterday's @ObsMedEd webinar on thyroid disease in pregnancy:#MedTwitter #FirstTweetorialFeedback and discussion more than welcome![Picture: neonatal Graves' disease] https

Sacha Coward

sacha_coward

I LOVE a good alien movie! Strange and eerie otherworldly beings from distant worlds. But where does this come from and how has the way we depict ‘Extraterrestrials’ changed throughout

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