Laurel Coons    

@LaurelCoons

PhD (Duke, NIH-NIEHS) Pondering what I should do next with my life 💭💭

Duke University
Vrijeme pridruživanja: svibanj 2016.

Medijski sadržaj

  1. Google Maps Hack: 📱 pulled 99 smartphones around Berlin in a wagon, tracking how the gadgets affected Google Maps’ traffic interface 📱Wherever the phones went, Google Maps showed a traffic jam, displaying a red line and routing users around the area

  2. Mitosis: 🧬Mitosis is the process in which a eukaryotic cell splits in two, followed by division of the parent cell into two daughter cells 🧬The word means 🧬Refers to the threadlike appearance of chromosomes as the cell prepares to divide

  3. Build A New Hospital In 10 Days: 🦠China has finished building an emergency hospital in dedicated to treating patients 🦠Construction started on January 23 and finished 10 days later 🦠Huoshenshan Hospital has an area of 25,000 square meters and 1,000 beds

  4. A Win: 😳F-E-A-R has two meanings 😳Forget Everything And Run 😳Or 😳Face Everything And Rise 😳The choice is yours 😳This brave little seal was being chased by a dozen hungry orcas (killer whales) 😳It decided to ... up onto this family’s boat

  5. Palindrome: 🧬Palindrome day 🧬02.02.2020 🧬2020.02.02 🧬No matter how a culture writes the date, it remains a (reads the same forward and backward) 🧬It’s the first time in 909 years that the date is a palindrome worldwide 🧬International palindrome

  6. Slow Mover: 🦥The world’s mammal is crawling towards a road 🦥Move slowly to conserve energy 🦥Sloths are so sedentary that algae grows on their coat, acting as a camouflage in the trees 🦥Camouflage is crucial to its survival because of its inability to move quickly

  7. Playtime: 🦜These pups were wrestling when a appeared down the road 🦜Mongooses lie on their backs to invite another mongoose to wrestle 🦜While it may look like playing dead, the mongoose is most likely trying to lure the hornbill to

  8. Sea Sparkle: 🌊Bioluminescence in the ocean 🌊Bioluminescence is a chemical reaction that produces light energy in an organism’s body 🌊Caused by a massive red tide (algae bloom) of phytoplankton 🌊The microorganisms emit light in response to stress (splashes)

  9. The Power Of : 🧼Teacher asked several kids with various levels of hand to touch 5 pieces of white bread that were taken from the same loaf, at the same time 🧼Then, they put the bread in individual plastic bags to observe what would happen over 1 month

  10. Pull-Out Bunk Beds: 🛋There’s a cleverly designed sofa that folds out into bunk beds 🛋The front flips up to become an upper bed, and a ladder folds out so you can climb up 🛋Takes seconds to set up 🛋Small space dwellers rejoice 🛋Space-saving sleeper 🛋Double-decker couch

  11. Rickety Track: 🚂Blasting down the in the former Wabash Railroad’s 5th District 🚂Railroad stretches from Woodburn, Indiana to Liberty Center, Ohio 🚂Much of the rail line is built on swampy land which contributes to the disrepair of the track 👉

  12. Is Not The Corona Beer Virus: 🍺 coronavirus (2019-nCoV) isn’t the same as Corona beer 🍺It has nothing to do with beer, doesn’t go with a lime wedge 🍺According to Google Trends, Google searches for “beer virus” and “Corona beer virus” have been on the rise

  13. Ladybug Wings: 🐞Have transparent wings that fold under their spotted wing cases (elytra) 🐞Hindwings (alae) are 4X the size of the ladybug and can move independently of each other 🐞Alae are interlaced with veins, which the wings fold along when packed up inside of the elytra

  14. It’s Not Just Men Who Flex Their Biceps At Women: 🦘Kangaroos do too 🦘Male kangaroos adopt poses to show off their muscly arms to females 🦘Arm muscles are sexually-selected trait 🦘Body size of male to female kangaroo (9:1 for greys, 5:1 for reds) 👉

  15. Master Of Disguise: 🐟As a type of flatfish, flounder are ideally suited to life on the ocean floor 🐟They huddle up on the seabed, often aided by speckled skin that helps them blend in 🐟Offers safety from predators, but also lets them ambush prey (shrimp, worms, fish larvae)

  16. How Forms: ❄️An ice crystal forms when a water freezes onto a particle in the atmosphere ❄️As it falls, the grows by absorbing surrounding water droplets ❄️The snow we see on the ground is an accumulation of these ice crystals

  17. Blast: 🚗Resting your feet on the dash could result in life-changing injuries if you crash 🚗One femur is 🚗One hip is in the socket 🚗One hip has been far from where it should be 🚗Airbag may also send your knees through your eye sockets

  18. Collapsing Tanker: 🛢Normally, the inside and outside the tanker are approximately the same 🛢If you remove the air from inside the tanker via vacuum, you have atmospheric pressure pushing in on tanker, but nothing pushing out 🛢Can implode due to pressure difference

  19. Where Is The Healthiest Seat On An Airplane: 😷A seat 😷Those in aisle seats have a greater likelihood of coming in contact with communicable viruses due to the proximity of other passengers 😷Those in window seats are more likely to stay put 👉

  20. Day: ⛄️Snow is a ⛄️It’s a naturally occurring solid, inorganically formed, has a definite chemical composition ⛄️Snow is ⛄️Light is reflected off the surface of the ice crystals and scattered back out equally into all of its spectral colors (white)

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