Wing de-icing ✈️ Why: If ice is allowed to build up to a significant thickness it can change the shape of airfoils and flight control surfaces, degrading the performance, control or handling characteristics of the aircraft.

Here's a proof that Tolkien's Middle-Earth is not flat

Chemical Elements ∩ US States

One of the biggest problems with school is we teach theory before practice, when we should really be teaching practice before theory

Demand for lateral entries in medical schools through test-based qualifier rounds comprising of syllabus from first year MBBS professionals. Narendra Modi PMO India Ministry of Education

Age well.

Mental health through the various stages of Academia, from undergrad ➡️PhD ➡️ Postdoc ➡️ faculty, illustrated through posters. (Finally completed the set)!

We need to talk more about #mentalhealth at universities. #itsokaynottobeokay

#AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #phdchat

A list of my favorite reading quotes:

1) “Read what you love until you love to read.” –Naval Ravikant (Naval)

2) “Reading, I hold, is indispensable. All reading should be applied to the idea of living the happy life.' –Seneca

In 1945, a radar engineer named Percy Spencer was working at Raytheon. He stepped in front of a magnetron, a device that powers radars. He noticed a chocolate bar in his pocket had melted. Later that year, he filed a patent for the first microwave oven.

We talk a lot about dad humour but honestly Indian mom humour needs its own hype.

Indian moms have some of the funniest punchlines ever.

Winden has, forever, ruined my virtual escapades in the nature.

According to Emsi, undergraduates in STEM education increased by 43% between 2010-2016, however, 2.4 million STEM jobs went unfilled in 2018 💼

visualcapitalist.com/stem-education…

The numbers from 0-100 in alphabetical order: 8, 18, 80, 88, 85, 84, 89, 81, 87, 86, 83, 82, 11, 15, 50, 58, 55, 54, 59, 51, 57, 56, 53, 52, 5, 40, 48, 45, 44, 49, 41, 47, 46, 43, 42, 4, 14, 9, 19, 90, 98, 95, 94, 99, 91, 97, 96, 93, 92, 1, 100, 7, 17, 70, 78, 75, 74, 79, 71, ...

This movie shows a migrating cancer cell as seen through a microscope. The arp2/3 complex (cyan) and actin filament cytoskeleton (magenta) are shown.
#CellBiology #microscopy

This giant robot suit is 15 feet tall and powered by the pilot's limbs

Typhoon Haishen