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FrankenGardner
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Day1
#BookSky
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I vote for minerals for their art & physics applications & the new #OreCup is making it hard pitting 2 strong contenders against each other! Found worldwide Copper & Galena have been used since antiquity (see early Galena smelting via Agricola). Both used for pigments (verdigris in this Van Eyck)…
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Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.
He Alone Tracked Leaky Oil Wells in National Parks. He Was Let Go.
www.nytimes.com
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I want to see the particles that sink carbon to the deep ocean, all the time and in real time.This summer we built an instrument that collects images of sinking particles every second, and visualizes them in 5 different ways. @mbarinews.bsky.social
youtu.be/4xXGlnCoik8
How MBARI scientists are studying the ocean’s carbon flux in real time
YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
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No, I was not ‘bored’. Researching the efficacy of measuring tapes in tabby hypnosis is hard science 😤x
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Some people waited in line up for 14 hours to receive a food box from a church giveaway.

500 people volunteered to help and they still ran out of food.

Remember for every one person a food bank feeds, SNAP feeds 9.

By turning off food assistance the regime is starving Americans.
Woman sits in car for 14 hours to get food during New Birth Baptist church food giveaway
More than 2,000 people waited in their cars in line Saturday morning in order to receive food.
www.11alive.com
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1/3 🧵🧵

Details are emerging of intimidation tactics used by USA delegation to derail climate action on shipping at the International Maritime Organisation

“It’s like dealing with the Mob” said one veteran of the talks

www.ft.com/content/4e0a...
US accused of ‘bully-boy’ tactics to sink climate deal
Officials say ‘threats’ used to derail net zero deal for shipping industry ripped up rules of global diplomacy
www.ft.com
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Remember dendrites (from the Greek word dendron meaning tree)? They are tree-like minerals that form under special conditions. There is a lovely dendritic #copper sample on the upper right. Thanks Susie! More in comment 👇🏼

#OreCup25 #MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐
Michigan has historically been a source for beautiful, and useful, #copper. Specifically, the Upper Peninsula contains the largest native copper deposits!

Copper from Carnegie Natural History and Cranbrook Institute.

Vote copper for Michigan!

#OreCup #MinCup
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In today's #OreCup25 I vote for #galena because of its historic use as a pigment.

Look at this shiny sample from the Harz Mountains/Germany!

📸 Rob Lavinsky
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307 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Hummerite:
- A potassium magnesium vanadate mineral
- Forms via the leaching of vanadium oxide ores
- Named after its type locality Hummer Mine in Paradox Valley, Colorado, USA #minerals #MineralMonday
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306 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Leadhillite:
- A carbonate mineral
- Has a high density since it contains lead (~2.5 times more dense than quartz)
- Can be yellow, blue or green
- Forms in the oxidised zone of lead deposits
- Named after Leadhills in Scotland, its type locality #minerals #MineralMonday
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The Museum of the Earth isn't just a place to marvel at the physical record of how life evolved on Earth - it also provides virtual access to that collection with remarkable 3D models!

www.priweb.org/blog-post/vi...

Since Saturday, 51 people donated $4115 to keep the museum open. Help if you can.
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Sea ice extent in the Chukchi Sea remains high for the 21st century for November 1. With only 33 percent of the Chukchi still open water, this is the highest ice extent for the date since 2001. Also starting to get ice in protected bays/brackish waters in the northern Bering. #akwx #Arctic #SeaIce
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Simulated reconstruction of November #Arctic sea ice thickness since 1901. Watch for the last 10 years or so...

Information about this data set is available at psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro.... Note that it is only updated through 2010 due to ERA-20C forcing.
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When I was growing up, someone told me that green potatoes are toxic because they have cyanide in them. That's, of course, absolutely wrong. Green potatoes are poisonous because they have solanine in them. 🧪

Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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I'm on #TeamCopper. I wrote a nostalgic and geeky song about it, and if we can get it to the next round, that'll be the push I need to record it properly. #OreCup #music
#OreCup is launching with two famous & beloved ore minerals, #Galena vs #Copper!

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
Results: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...

You have 24 hours to campaign. Go!
www.mineralcup.org
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Galena was a mineral in use for it's properties since the Stone Age. Learn more about the mineral and vote in the mineral #OreCup #Galena #MineralMonday
www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
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The first match in #OreCup is on now as #Galena and #Copper battle for your vote. Do you favour the lead ore or the native metal?

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
Results:
www.mineralcup.org
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a reason to vote for galena in #OreCup!
#FindsFriday
🪨A Neolithic scraper made from a breccia of Galena. It shows wear from use; perhaps a status implement. Galena is a sulphide mineral which has anti-microbial properties, which would have been useful in processing hides🐄🐐🐏
#Archaeology #Prehistory #Neolithic #Wirral
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The Flemish masters painted on #copper as it provided a smooth surface that allowed fine detail and durability of their exquisite works, like this self portrait of Rembrandt.

#OreCup25 #MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐
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Let's go galena!!!

Galena is lead sulfide. We tend to think first of lead's health consequences, but the reality is that it was historically a very significant metal. It was relatively unreactive, easy to work, and had a low melting point....
#OreCup is launching with two famous & beloved ore minerals, #Galena vs #Copper!

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
Results: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...

You have 24 hours to campaign. Go!
www.mineralcup.org
Native element #Copper sparked the curiosity and ingenuity of prehistoric civilizations, and remains indispensable to modern technologies.

Cu is both essential to life and antimicrobial.

#OreCup ⚒️ 🧪

Images from mindat.org “Best Of” article.
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Naturally occurring pure copper is called “native” copper & is formed in veins & fractures by super-heated mineral-rich fluids often associated with volcanic activity. My sample shown below. Get the lead out & vote #copper!

#OreCup25 #MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐