It's been 24 hours since Science 140 was launched here and on twitter and we have been delighted with the response so far. We have received hundreds of tweets offering explanations on everything from the definition of science to forces to aerodynamics to astronomy and loads of tweets offering us best wishes on our project. 144 of you have decided to follow us on twitter in the last 24 hours and we hope we can provide you all with nuggets of interesting science facts!
As mentioned yesterday, we aim to collect these definitions, explanations and biographies over the next three months in the hopes of collating them in to a book - the proceeds of which will go to charity. Details of the charity / charities will be released in the coming weeks. So, thank you all for getting involved and I hope you continue on our journey over the coming months!! Woo hoo! Here's a small sample of the tweets received during the first day, explaining various scientific principles!
As mentioned yesterday, we aim to collect these definitions, explanations and biographies over the next three months in the hopes of collating them in to a book - the proceeds of which will go to charity. Details of the charity / charities will be released in the coming weeks. So, thank you all for getting involved and I hope you continue on our journey over the coming months!! Woo hoo! Here's a small sample of the tweets received during the first day, explaining various scientific principles!
- Nigel Lane @NL_84 - Speed of Light = 299,792,458 m/s #science140
- Paul Lavin @plavin1922 - What is science?: The systematic gathering of knowledge based on testable explanations and predictions formed by observing the world arouns us. #science140
- Azeeza @krazeescientist - Science: Subject everyone avoided at school except the weird kids.#Science140
- annahalford @anhalf - #science140 Forces- make things go/stop/.twist/turn/move. How would you open that bottle of wine with no forces? Or open a chocolate bar?
- Simon McArthur @simonmcarthur - Triple Point: the temperature and pressure at which the 3 phases of matter of a substance co-exist in thermodynamic equilibrium.#science140
- Michael Seery @michaelkls - Scanning electron microscopy bombards material with electrons, pushing out only electrons near surface to detector to give image#science140
- Alice Sheppard @PenguinGalaxy - #science140 Entropy: my excuse for my room being in a permanent mess.
- Alyssa Byrd @LyssaByrd - @science140 From the Greek word "oikos"–home or house, ECOLOGY studies interactions between living/nonliving factors in an environment.
- Michael Habib @aeroevo - #science140 At it's base, aerodynamics is the study of how air moves. In most cases, we study how it moves in and around objects.
- Carol Cronin @karlachameleon - @science140 Supercooled water: water brought to a temperature below its freezing point that remains in liquid form and doesnt solidify.
- Declan McGrath @declanmg - A meme is a unit of culture, such as an idea or trend, that is spread from person to person within a culture #science140
- Gerard Cunningham @faduda - In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded #science140[originally by @terryandrob]
Here's what people have been saying about Science 140.
- Thilina Heenatigala @ThilinaH - Can you do Science in 140 characters? YES! Check out and #follow@science140 - new #crowdsourcing #socialmedia project.#science140
- Libby @LibbyinIndy - Just found out about @science140. Pretty cool. Everyone should check it out. #science140
- Paul O'Dwyer @ShirtnTie - For you science types and non-science types too, have a look@science140 Fun and educational!!
- Alice Sheppard @PenguinGalaxy - @janetravers @science140 that's a brilliant idea! Trying to come up with some science definitions now :-D
- Declan McGrath @declanmg - @ShirtnTie The @Science140 is super! Thanks for sharing!@aoibhinn_ni_s @daraobriain
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