Jake Hopkins
@jake15353.bsky.social
physics geek, biomimic, cyclist
This podcast was fantastic! Physicist spends her spare time writing Wikipedia biographies of other scientists. overcast.fm/+ABBjzpzVKLk
Jessica Wade- The untold stories of Wikipedia — Hope Is A Verb
Meet Jessica Wade, an experimental physicist in London who has written 1,997 Wikipedia biographies for unrepresented female and minority scientists to encourage more diversity in STEM. In this convers...
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May 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This podcast was fantastic! Physicist spends her spare time writing Wikipedia biographies of other scientists. overcast.fm/+ABBjzpzVKLk
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Forests have a healthy influence on us. Not only do trees filter our air, the sight of a tree lowers our stress level. The air in a coniferous forest is particularly germ-free and even anti-inflammatory due to the many essential oils they emit - comparable to a natural antibiotic
February 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Forests have a healthy influence on us. Not only do trees filter our air, the sight of a tree lowers our stress level. The air in a coniferous forest is particularly germ-free and even anti-inflammatory due to the many essential oils they emit - comparable to a natural antibiotic
None of of the Jimmy Carter info I read this week included this incident. In December of 1952, he was part of team that literally stopped a nuclear reactor disaster. As a physicist, I have to say that this made him a badass in my book.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_C...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_C...
Jimmy Carter - Wikipedia
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January 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
None of of the Jimmy Carter info I read this week included this incident. In December of 1952, he was part of team that literally stopped a nuclear reactor disaster. As a physicist, I have to say that this made him a badass in my book.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_C...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_C...
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Here's your periodic reminder that actually social media can lead to wonderful things:
Man sees photo from archaeological dig on social media. Man recognizes single recognizable letter. Man is instrumental in identifying a partial alphabet of a lost civilization:
www.sciencenews.org/article/lost...
Man sees photo from archaeological dig on social media. Man recognizes single recognizable letter. Man is instrumental in identifying a partial alphabet of a lost civilization:
www.sciencenews.org/article/lost...
A lost civilization’s partial alphabet was discovered in a social media post
In online images of an ancient tablet, an expert spotted previously unnoticed letters — a partial alphabet from the Tartessian civilization.
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July 24, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Here's your periodic reminder that actually social media can lead to wonderful things:
Man sees photo from archaeological dig on social media. Man recognizes single recognizable letter. Man is instrumental in identifying a partial alphabet of a lost civilization:
www.sciencenews.org/article/lost...
Man sees photo from archaeological dig on social media. Man recognizes single recognizable letter. Man is instrumental in identifying a partial alphabet of a lost civilization:
www.sciencenews.org/article/lost...
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Reposted by Jake Hopkins
Happy International Women's Day!
So proud to be a role model for my brother-in-law, a male programmer. Someday, we'll all be able to acknowledge men's foundational and historically under-valued contributions to this field ❤️
So proud to be a role model for my brother-in-law, a male programmer. Someday, we'll all be able to acknowledge men's foundational and historically under-valued contributions to this field ❤️
March 8, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Happy International Women's Day!
So proud to be a role model for my brother-in-law, a male programmer. Someday, we'll all be able to acknowledge men's foundational and historically under-valued contributions to this field ❤️
So proud to be a role model for my brother-in-law, a male programmer. Someday, we'll all be able to acknowledge men's foundational and historically under-valued contributions to this field ❤️