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Knowing the Past to Understand the Present and Plan for the Future
Oct 31, 2022 10 tweets 3 min read
NOAA Mauna Loa Observatory measures record breaking CO2 levels…

Where did they say this observatory was?

Mauna Loa has erupted 33 times since 1843…

33.

1984 was a notable year.

Oct 29, 2022 35 tweets 11 min read
CO2 is the building block for all life on Earth and that without its presence in the global atmosphere at a sufficient concentration this would be a dead planet. An increase in plant growth and biomass is happening globally because CO2 has increased from 280 ppm to 416 ppm since the mid-eighteenth century.

forbes.com/sites/trevorna…
Sep 22, 2021 8 tweets 3 min read
Doctors in Norway have been told to conduct more thorough evaluations of very frail elderly patients in line to receive the Pfizer BioNTec vaccine against covid-19, following the deaths of 23 patients shortly after receiving the vaccine.

bmj.com/content/372/bm… Massachusetts health officials on Tuesday reported more than 4,500 new breakthrough cases over the past week, and 23 more deaths.

google.co.uk/amp/s/www.nbcb…
Sep 21, 2021 16 tweets 3 min read
In reality, pathogens don’t actually want to kill all of their human hosts, because they would eventually have nowhere to live. Their goal is to pass on their genetic material to the next generation. They will do what they can to answer their evolutionary call.
Aug 7, 2021 14 tweets 2 min read
2013:

Heritable Change Caused by Transient Transcription Errors

Alasdair J. E. Gordon, Dominik Satory, Jennifer A. Halliday, Christophe Herman Transmission of cellular identity relies on the faithful transfer of information from the mother to the daughter cell. This process includes accurate replication of the DNA, but also the correct propagation of regulatory programs responsible for cellular identity.
Nov 14, 2020 15 tweets 8 min read
@RudyGiuliani Smartmatic (also referred as Smartmatic Corp. or Smartmatic International) is a multinational company that specializes in building and implementing electronic voting systems.

Headquarters
London, United Kingdom, multinational. @RudyGiuliani The company also produces smart cities solutions (including public safety and public transportation), identity management systems for civil registration and authentication products for government applications.

Nov 12, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
Nothing’s gonna change my world...

Nov 11, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
Miss Symonds remembers in incredible detail the night Worboys picked her up on the King's Road after she had been out with two friends at the club Mamalanges.

telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/49… google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg…
Sep 21, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
The team’s work with the coronavirus builds on the success with an all-atom simulation of the influenza virus envelope, published in the journal ACS Central Science.

sci-news.com/medicine/super… In theory, every atom or molecule has the potential to be magnetic, since this depends on the movement of its electrons.

google.co.uk/amp/s/phys.org…
Sep 21, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
We will have achieved something that has eluded great minds from da Vinci to electrical pioneer Nikola Tesla. How is that even possible? “Tesla didn’t have rare-earth magnets and digital machine control,” Mr. Danzik said.

google.co.uk/amp/s/www.wsj.… Report from July 2019

Trump’s orders Monday singled out magnets made of neodymium, iron and boron as well as those made with samarium and cobalt.

industryweek.com/the-economy/ar…
Sep 20, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
Janus kinase inhibitors, also known as JAK inhibitors or jakinibs, are a type of medication that functions by inhibiting the activity of one or more of the Janus kinase family of enzymes

These inhibitors have therapeutic application in the treatment of cancer and inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. There is interest in their use for various skin conditions. Image
Sep 15, 2020 27 tweets 10 min read
In 2013 amateur fisherman snared himself an unusual catch - a haul of Roman and Iron Age coins, hailed by the British Museum as a 'very excting discovery'.

The coin on the left features the head of Janus, the God of beginnings and transitions

google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dail… The coins are likely to be close to around AD 43. They almost pinpoint the time when the Romans were first in Britain.

Janus, the two faced God depicted on the coins was, in Roman religion, the animistic spirit of doorways (januae) and archways (jani). Image
Sep 13, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
The Old Dun Cow Caught Fire is a music hall song written by Harry Wincott in 1893. Harry Champion sang it in a 1911 recording

This video shows the Futureheads singing The Old Dun Cow in 2012:

Public houses on Old Kent Road have been closing since the 1980s. At one point, there were 39 pubs. The Dun Cow at No. 279 opened in 1856 Image
Sep 11, 2020 26 tweets 9 min read
Canterbury Cathedral said a series of events marking the 850th anniversary of the saint's death, originally planned to end on the 29 December, the date of the murder, would now begin on that date.

google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.… The cathedral which has reopened after three months of lockdown says there are also plans to bring a rare relic of the saint to the cathedral in 2021, to coincide with the Lambeth Conference which was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Sep 11, 2020 6 tweets 3 min read
Explore the legend behind the ‘heart of London’ discovered at 111 Cannon Street.

londonstone.org.uk Image It’s been claimed to be a Druidic altar, a Roman milestone, and the magical ‘heart of London’. It’s one of London’s most ancient landmarks, but most people have never heard of it – or if they have, they’ve heard one of the strange legends that have sprouted up around it. Image
Sep 10, 2020 6 tweets 3 min read
NASA's THEMIS mission proves a 45-year old theory that the outer boundary of Earth's magnetic field vibrates like a drum. ... “The waves on the magnetopause's surface reflect between two points near the magnetic poles — acting very much like a drum."

The core of the Earth is also an electromagnet. Although the crust is solid, the core of the Earth is surrounded by a mixture of molten iron and nickle. The magnetic field of Earth is caused by currents of electricity that flow in the molten core.

Sep 8, 2020 61 tweets 22 min read
OBSERVED GEOMAGNETIC FIELD INTENSITY IN LONDON

Since 1850 the curve has resumed the steady eastward trend.

If this trend were to continue, the compass would point due north in London in about 2030. The last time it did so was in the 1660s. Image What was found arguably provides the first concrete neuroscientific evidence that humans do have a geomagnetic sense.

theconversation.com/new-evidence-f…
Sep 7, 2020 5 tweets 1 min read
The King's Great Matter

John Fisher (1469 – 1535), was an English Catholic bishop, cardinal, and theologian.

Fisher was also an academic, and eventually served as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. Fisher was executed by order of Henry VIII during the English Reformation for refusing to accept him as the supreme head of the Church of England and for upholding the Catholic Church's doctrine of papal supremacy.
Sep 5, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
Military coups have posed a persistent threat to political stability, undermining democratization efforts, igniting insurgencies, and leading to years of devastating military governance. Initial cross-national studies found little consistent evidence linking ethnicity to coups, leading recent formal and statistical work on coup risk and coup-proofing to largely ignore ethnic politics.
Sep 5, 2020 74 tweets 14 min read
The River Thames known alternatively in parts as the Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London.

At 215 miles (346 km), it is the longest river entirely in England The Thames, from Middle English Temese, is derived from the Brittonic Celtic name for the river, Tamesas (from tamēssa)

Kenneth H. Jackson has proposed that the name of the Thames is not Indo-European (and of unknown meaning)
Aug 28, 2020 13 tweets 2 min read
The Gates of Horn and Ivory. Image Image