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Package Thief Vs Glitter Bomb: This harmless but devious package is packed with a detonating plume of fine glitter A stink bomb that goes off after the glitter explodes And cameras to capture the mayhem A #Christmas gift that keeps on giving https://youtu.be/xoxhDk-hwuo pic.twitter.com/2NmEklAUW5

Home Alone: Macaulay Culkin is “Home Alone” again How a modern-day Kevin could use technology to fend off the wet bandits ”A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing” ”Respect your parents, they passed school without Google” #HomeAlonepic.twitter.com/TfTt60VHiC

The Bigger, The Better: Sea lions display sexual dimorphism Differences in #size or #appearance between males and females of the same species Males are at least 2X larger than females Females look for the largest males to mate with Male=Bull Female=Cow Offspring=Puppic.twitter.com/JeHoRyT8pG

Pawstand: Some dogs do #handstands while they're peeing Urination is typically a way of marking their turf Smaller dogs may do handstands to cover the urine left by larger dogs at higher positions It’s sort of like wearing high heels, like wearing lifts in their shoespic.twitter.com/qWAybRByoq

Ovoviviparous: Embryos develop inside eggs that are retained within the mother's body until they are ready to hatch Babies are born inside their own amniotic sac, which they must tear out of in order to take their first breath Rattlesnakes and boas give birth this waypic.twitter.com/Gl5Lps98xQ

Athena Insight: I was paraphrasing ”We didn’t have the ability to classify a variant’s significance, it was the physican’s job to look up the variant in the literature, it was not until we created Athena Insight that we started looking up and classifying the significance”pic.twitter.com/sT53vznoaV

Real Life, Real Consequences: For 7 years, it was just easier to interpret variants as a #VUS than to search the literature to see if it was reported to be associated with the disease (your only requirement to deem it #pathogenic) This is the #consequence #WilliamsvQuestpic.twitter.com/N7NbhhBPAj

He's Tiring Fast: A young male lion finds himself surrounded by a clan of hyenas When #hope seems lost, a friend comes to his rescue May we always have a #friend like this on our journey through a clan of hyenas Clans lose their #power if there is more than one targetpic.twitter.com/S6jV386XDx

Walk Like A Man: A couple dozen steps, two fistfuls of tomatoes, a perfectly upright posture A male gorilla (Louis) is taking a stand Although gorillas occasionally walk on two legs (bipedal), it is not common Strutting his stuff Bipedal locomotion #CarryingSnackspic.twitter.com/W9gDsTjBbt

Seeking Accountability: Christian’s 2015 Report pp. 46-51 Known disease-associated mutation https://ctrack.sccourts.org/public/document/view.do?documentID=580539 … ”That the revised 2015 report provided no new references that were unavailable at the time the 2007 report was issued is striking” https://theprivacyreport.com/2016/05/31/litigating-the-accountability-of-genomics-laboratories/ …pic.twitter.com/KSEHfwDyXs

#Actin In Action: A young #neuron is isolated The future #axon begins to grow out of the cell body faster than the rest (the future #dendrites) Actin is concentrated in the growth cones at the tips of the processes that are actively extending @aaandmoore @PGuedes_Diaspic.twitter.com/tzLfAnfNzH

Stick Shadows On A Round Earth: Because the Earth is round, sticks placed at different locations will make shadows of different lengths Eratosthenes made the first good measurement of the size of Earth By noting the angles of shadows in two cities on the summer solsticepic.twitter.com/HaWNZPV9bJ

Shadows And Sticks: If you put a stick in the ground it will produce a shadow that moves as time passes If the Earth is flat, then two sticks in different locations will produce the same shadow Eratosthenes used this principle to calculate the circumference of the Earthpic.twitter.com/8nssmQ0ymf

Surface Of A Comet: #Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko ~13 km away from it The bright dots are background stars, they have that apparent motion as the spacecraft moves and the comet rotates The streaks are dust particles illuminated by the Sun https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/04/a-short-new-movie-of-a-comets-surface-is-pretty-incredible/ …pic.twitter.com/G0uHL4AKME

A Powerful Lesson That Patients Deserve Full Control Of Their Genetic Data: A lab can refuse to share data to protect their own market position At the expense of scientific progress, and the very patients who paid them to conduct genetic testing https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/medical-and-genetic-privacy/henrietta-lacks-story-powerful-lesson-patients …pic.twitter.com/6gmtoqkHY5

The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks: In 1951, doctors harvested cells from Henrietta Lacks while she was receiving treatment for cervical cancer Scientists used the “HeLa” cells in research for decades without the knowledge of her family https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/medical-and-genetic-privacy/henrietta-lacks-story-powerful-lesson-patients …pic.twitter.com/3j9ISpDHog

HeLa Cell Division: 1 cell becomes 8 cells ”We must use all we have learned from the ethical issues surrounding HeLa cells to inform today’s fight for patient control of our own genetic data to help fuel the next round of scientific breakthroughs” https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/medical-and-genetic-privacy/henrietta-lacks-story-powerful-lesson-patients …pic.twitter.com/HASuI777HB

Translating From #Pirate To #Science: ARRRH: I process all my data with R Avast Ye: I have too much yttrium Walk The Plank: Walk 1.6 x 10^-35 M forward Thar She Blows: A student’s experiment has just exploded Batten Down The Hatches: Seal up all the eppendorf tubespic.twitter.com/QgnIHp8BgE