Weekly Twitter Roundup: 8/23-8/27, 2010
News we thought was tweet-worthy:
Friday
New glass could save the 100s of millions of birds that die every year from window collisions: http://bit.ly/bhdLtV
Follow @RMS_Titanic_inc for updates on the most advanced scientific expedition ever to the Titanic wreckage.
S.O.S.! Plants under threat from caterpillars can summon allies: http://bbc.in/cVzKHu
RT @PopSci Whoops! The 10 Greatest (Accidental) Inventions of All Time http://bit.ly/aytYcU
Thursday
RT @NASA NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Two Planets Transiting the Same Star – http://cot.ag/c3ueDQ.
RT @froylance 23 yrs after he first set up his telescope at Fells Point, B’more’s Streetcorner Astronomer Herman Heyn has a website. http://bit.ly/cda1HU
Ravens fans are familiar w/ the whirling moves of Colts’ @dwightfreeney. The science of his spin: http://ow.ly/2vgS1
RT @PopSci NASA’s Experience With Survival In Isolation Will Help Trapped Chilean Miners http://bit.ly/douy7E
Wednesday
Rare “fire tornado” captured on film in Brazil: http://bit.ly/9j46i8
Newly-discovered planetary system may be largest ever detected beyond the sun. http://bit.ly/d9GlnL
Tuesday
Since our exhibit, more Secrets of the Mona Lisa have been uncovered. Now, the secret of the smile: http://ow.ly/2u7EK
Monday
Your significant other isn’t the only one who remembers how ripped you used to be. Muscles do too! http://n.pr/91F2Dq
RT @JohnsHopkinsSPH Dr. Tom Kirsch shares an update from his ongoing work in #Haiti. http://bit.ly/dbvvmH
