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PulpLibrarian
Today is #WomenInSTEM day, and I want to look back at a group of courageous working class women whose battle against fake 'science' and industry malpractice led to us all
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Rafaela Ferraz
RafaelaWrites
In the spirit of "being on vacation in 2020", let's talk about this radioactive spa hotel I visited a while ago. Fun fact about radioactive spas, they were all the
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Robert McNees
mcnees
The nuclear physicist Harriet Brooks, who was probably the first person to notice the recoil of an atomic nucleus due to emissions during nuclear decay, was born #OTD in 1876.Credit:
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Anas Alhajji
anasalhajji
Thread1- @laffngeconomist warned us in his latest article to avoid making conclusions about event-based trends while forgetting the event itselfTake this further: history tells us even what became a craze
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rebecca mix
mixbecca
book bloggers do an insane amount of work for this community & they do it for free. authors are incredibly lucky to have their support but we also need to.
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James Wong
Botanygeek
There are lots of rules campaigny food writers create to ‘help’ us eat healthier.But many (most?) don’t stand up to much scrutiny.Here’s a thread of my top 5: 1) ‘Don’t
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Sara A. Carter
SaraCarterDC
Hey, I spent the majority of my career covering war zones on the front lines and in Mexico covering the drug cartels - I also grew up overseas and have
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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
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⭐Nereide🪐
Nereide
1/#OTD in 1867, #MarieCurie was born.In addition to her great scientific merits, let's remember her generous activity as a "radiologist" during the WWI.In fact, she devised "mobile units" as a
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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
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Joe, where's my 2k?
MyHandsRatedE
I was thinking about this so much last nighthttps://twitter.com/LynMCain/status/1358447048954118145 I combed out my locs. I took an entire month to do. It was long and tedious. My wrists were on
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Eileen Chong 张奕霖
eileenchongpoet
This makes me think of Victorian era chimney sweeps—usually young boys, who would be able to fit into chimneys, often naked—who would often get a specific cancer on their testicles,
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Dan Gardner
dgardner
A thread about why you should always check to see who is funding the podcasts, tweets, and other media you consume. Even the apparently apolitical stuff. 1/ There’s a podcast/twitter
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Mark Pitcavage
egavactip
This is a short, anecdotal thread about UFO-related "terrorism" in the United States. We tend to think of terrorism as being related to the far right, or the far left,
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BHR RT Physics
BHR_RTPhysics
Thread - 1/Hello! it’s International Day of Medical Physics #idmp2017 @ipemnews @IntDayofMedPhys @IOMP_Official @BHR_hospitals 2/It was founded by the International Organization for Medical Physics: Marie Curie’s anniversary, born 150 y
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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
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