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Here you go @davidappell, I fixed it specifically for you. I would like to announce my retirement from expecting to be taken seriously. Everyone watch the mail for your refund
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When did we first “see” a black hole? An Aerobee rocket carrying 3 geiger counters was launched from White Sands #OTD in 1962. Intended to measure the flux of X-rays
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Police are rioting across America. They’re attacking citizens and journalists alike; they have to assert their power and they have no qualms about who they hurt or how badly they
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The deflection of starlight by the gravitational field of the sun was observed during a solar eclipse #OTD in 1919, an important piece of evidence supporting a central prediction of
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One retweet, one picture of this puppy with his tongue sticking out in a funny and/or cute way.**Offer valid while supplies last.
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Physicist and chemist Esther Conwell, whose work with Weisskopf on the scattering of electrons by impurities in semiconductors was essential to understanding transistors and the development of integrated circuits, was
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Physicist Helen Quinn was born #OTD in 1943. She is best known for Peccei-Quinn theory, a proposed explanation of the Strong CP problem of quantum chromodynamics. It implies a very
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Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was born #OTD in 1900. She decoded spectral lines of stars to deduce their elemental composition (concluding they are mostly H and He) and was the first
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Julius Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist best known for directing scientific work at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, was born #OTD in 1904. His important contributions to quantum mechanics, astrophysics,
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The engineer and photographer Harold Edgerton was born #OTD in 1903. He pioneered various forms of high-speed photography using specialized cameras, strobe lighting, and other techniques. You’ve seen his work!Images:
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When Einstein proposed general relativity he laid out three tests: the precession of Mercury's perihelion, deflection of light by the sun, and gravitational redshift. Irwin Shapiro proposed a fourth test
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