RIP Katherine Johnson (1918-2020). What a life:
🙏 One of the first African-American women to work at NASA.
🙏 Worked as a “human computer" for Mercury, Apollo, Shuttle programs
🙏 John Glenn requested she personally re-check computer calculations before his Friendship 7 mission
A photon checks into a hotel, and the desk clerk says "Can I get a bellhop for your bags?" Photon responds: "No need. I'm traveling light."
More of our favorite science jokes:
Today, we're honoring the late
#CarlSagan
—who would have been 83 today. We can't think of anyone who inspired so many people to love science and the universe.
#CarlSaganDay
Every day is
#EarthDay
. On the modern environmental movement's 50th anniversary, here’s a running list of everyday actions you can take to help save the planet:
Happy 85th birthday, Dr. Jane Goodall! Her conservation organization,
@JaneGoodallInst
, has now protected more than 3 million acres of land to help preserve the homes of endangered wildlife.
🙏 Received Presidential Medal of Freedom from
@BarackObama
(pictured)
🙏 NASA named a new building after Johnson on the 55th anniversary of Glenn’s mission, since it would not have been possible without her
🙏 Portrayed in Oscar-nominated Hidden Figures by
@TherealTaraji
🚫 Steve Jobs didn’t let his kids use iPads
🚫 Smoking is banned at the Reynolds American offices
🚫 Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper’s developer calls soda “terrible” and “not good for your teeth"
Insiders don't use their products like we do. That’s worrisome:
If Twitter had been around in Charles Darwin’s day, he would have been science’s one-liner king. To celebrate the iconic biologist’s 210th birthday, we turned his saddest, meanest, and funniest quotes into tweets. 👇