James Drake
@jamesjpdrake
Founder of @thedrakefdn, @futuremedicine_, @futuresci_, @of_lost_time and @drakecalleja, and a portrait artist who believes in turning ideas into actions.
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Sparky & playful rare baby white rhino now 6 weeks old and 100kg is now running around outside in the paddock close to mum Jaseera. Bucks County Herald
Image: Whipsnade Zoo
#DudleyMoore born 19 April 1935.
Actor & Comedian
“Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we’re not poets”.
#AlbertEinstein died 18 April 1955.
Weeks before he passed away, Einstein reflected on life, death & time: “For people like us who believe in physics, the separation between past, present and future has only the importance of an admittedly tenacious illusion.
AI image generated…
A new study finds that bumblebees can withstand 7 days underwater, indicating their adaptation to survive periods of flooding in the wild.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
Experimental design - graphic modified from the original by Jeremy Hemberger. BiologyLetters
#OverlookedWomen : Rosalind Franklin.
Died 16 April 1958, aged 37
Crystallographer who took Photo 51, the first known X-ray image of the DNA double helix. Watson, Crick & Wilkins later shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine & Physiology.
Astronomers from European Space Agency have identified the biggest known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy - Gaia BH3. The black hole has a mass 33 times that of the Sun.
eso.org/public/news/es…
Comparison of several stellar black holes in our galaxy ©️ ESO
#CharlieChaplin born 16 April 1889.
Actor
“A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.”
#GaryKasparov born 13 April 1963.
Chess champion
“Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.”