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Old Jul 21st 2014, 2:17 pm
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Now I'm not a habitual Grauniad reader but this is really rather good. Especially the Schrodinger one:

Great moments in Science (if Twitter had existed) | Dean Burnett | Science | theguardian.com
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Now I'm not a habitual Grauniad reader but this is really rather good. Especially the Schrodinger one:

Great moments in Science (if Twitter had existed) | Dean Burnett | Science | theguardian.com
Ha. Excellent - love the Schroedingers' conversation. Rosalind Franklin's one is a wee bit perceptive, too.
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Old Jul 21st 2014, 6:22 pm
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Originally Posted by Oakvillian
Ha. Excellent - love the Schroedingers' conversation. Rosalind Franklin's one is a wee bit perceptive, too.
indeed it is which brings me to my favourite xkcd cartoon

xkcd: Marie Curie
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Ha. Excellent - love the Schroedingers' conversation. Rosalind Franklin's one is a wee bit perceptive, too.
Loved that one
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Old Jul 22nd 2014, 12:52 pm
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Hahahha that was fantastic. The random #freejustinbieber hashtag was particularly unexpected.
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Well, I just learned a little bit of Johannes Kepler's early biography from Twitter. I don't get Pythagoras' joke about right-angled triangles though. However, it sounds sexual from the context.
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Trip back to grade 9 math! Pythagorean theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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