Google Is Searching for Young Scientists
Google Science Fair entries open on Jan. 12! What are you gonna explore?
Source: scienceside
It takes twice as much energy to throw a baseball 100mph than it does to throw one at 70mph.
- via @neiltyson
Roman Numerals have no zero because it was not yet invented, allowing year 2000 to be written efficiently as MM.
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As long as our energy source is fossil fuels extracted from the ground beneath our feet, we are hopeless far from wielding the energy necessary to open a wormhole in the space-time continuum.
Neil Tyson
Lament not the shuttle’s end, but the absence of rockets to supplant it. Who shed a tear when Gemini ended? Apollo awaited us.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Curious that a bulletproof vest does not protect the neck, head, or groin. I consider these body parts important.
- via @neiltyson
Science literacy is the most important kind of literacy [they] can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity.
In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
Neil Tyson
If you cram a herd of 50-million elephants into a thimble, you get the density of a neutron star.
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The two greatest acts of creativity? Why else do we say, “They’ve raised it to an art” & “They’ve got it down to a science”
- via @neiltyson
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