Harshal S Chhaya

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The latest issue of #SixSTEMTweets has posts on universal artificial shelf-stable blood, data science with Chipotle bowls, explaining discrete and continuous functions with potatoes and more

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Issue #75 of the "Six Science Posts" newsletter is on it's way to inboxes everywhere.

This one has some really neat info about element #75 - Rhenium - one of the rarest elements.

Also, a really fun non-standard measurement unit - the Ferris wheel.

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Shakespeare had some faulty shelves at the globe theater so he called for a repairman. The repairman said "I'm here to fix the stairs". A confused Shakespeare informed him, "the fault is not with our stairs, but with our shelves"

“scratching the surface” 👌🏽😄

Today is 5/29 - a reminder to check your 529 plan (college savings plan) or start one if you haven’t yet.

If you are in a state without a state income tax, you have more flexibility in picking a plan

Check the Iowa and Utah plans - many good options.

Best wishes! 👍🏽

Nooooooooooo

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Know why the symbol for Tungsten is W?

It because the process to extract it uses so much tin it looks like a ravenous, frothy wolf

These scientists have great imagination, right? 😄

I love learning stuff like this through my #SixSTEMTweets newsletter

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That sucks! I am so sorry and hope this gets whole again soon 💕

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

Screenshot of fun facts about the number 73

I had no idea that 73 is nicknamed Sheldon prime - after Sheldon Cooper of the Big Bang Theory

Here’s some fun facts about the number 73

Who knew?

Well, subscribers to the #SixSTEMTweets newsletter know

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😄😂

Love this!

“abbey tasting” also works 😆

If the ice cream store sells lottery tickets, buy a few 😊

What’s a good family friendly TV show we can watch for about 30 minutes after dinner?

Some examples that we’ve enjoyed are: Young Sheldon, Abbott Elementary , The Amazing Race, Modern Family

Looking for other suggestions,

Thanks

US Patent drawing for perforated toilet paper roll, patented December 22, 1891. by S. Wheeler

i for one would rather post about tear-offs. 🧻

This photo by Andres Vasquez Noboa on the eBird homepage today works with and without an extra comma:

Torrent duck

Torrent, duck

I will never stop anthropomorphising the computer. It would feel sad.

Our friends are on a vacation in Japan

And they are not posting their photos anywhere - not Facebook, not Instagram, not WhatsApp

Just having a great time all on their own

I am irrationally annoyed 😑😒

😄

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I have been so impressed by the first successful private mission to the moon - Blue Ghost Mission 1 by Firefly Space - that I put the highlights in a special issue of my newsletter

So much wonderful and impactful science!

And that “goodbye” message - so emotional 🥹

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After canceling meeting of independent advisers, FDA issues 2025-26 flu vaccine recommendations | CNN The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday issued recommendations for the composition of influenza shots for the upcoming respiratory virus season, but without input from its independent vaccine ...

In case you, like me, are a high-anxiety human who missed this piece of moderately reassuring news:

Despite many broken things, the FDA *did* make a flu shot recommendation for this fall.

www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/h...

I bet before the end of the year

The glow-in-the-dark petunias are a really neat example of bioengineered products

#TIL how olive sizes are named:

Large
Extra Large
Jumbo
Extra Jumbo
Giant
Colossal
Super Colossal
Mammoth
Super Mammoth
Atlas

This (mostly useless) bit of knowledge makes me happy 😃

This post is top tier!

Delivery successful, my friend! 😊

Yeah, lost in translation 😊

These are cousins of mung beans and the “th” is a hard sound - a bit like “mutt”

A relief sculpture of a seahorse made entirely from pieces cut from toilet roll tubes.

Art isn't about what you have, or what you use, art can be made from the simplest materials. Art is about invention, imagination, individuality . . . you don't need expensive tools and materials in order to be creative.
www.darrellwakelam.com #art #sculpture #edusky

Folks who reply to emails in a timely manner are good people

Folks who reply to my kid’s emails in a timely way are saints and deserve all the best things in life 👊🏽

This is so deep. And so true. Absolutely beautifully said! 👊🏽

A friend of mine has an Android app that’s been working great for over a year but started erroring last week.

Different Android versions, different hardware platforms, all showing errors over the last few days.

Any other Android devs seeing this?

Any clues? Thanks!

Had a really good time today working on Algebra 1 activities to help students visualize slope and y-intercept using turtle graphics (on screen) and the TI-Rover programmable robot (on the floor)

Yet another way to help learn about functions & lines w/ #Python

True, effective #EdTech 👊🏽

If you want to get a sense of the energy and the mood in Philly after the #SuperBowl, check out this amazing play-by-play thread

It’s 🔥 (figuratively and literally 😄)

This was a wonderful thread to wake up to 😂😳

Thank you for the play-by-play 🫡