The History of Progress @histofprogress

Documenting the history of progress Joined July 2023

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The History of Progress @histofprogress

2 years ago

“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision” - @AynRandOrg True progress is a measure of the willingness to attempt the most audacious tasks benefiting humankind. Bravo @takeonGravity

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Historic Vids @historyinmemes

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In 1922, a group of scientists went to the Toronto General Hospital where diabetic children were kept in wards, often 50 or more at a time. Most of them were comatose and dying from diabetic ketoacidosis. These children were essentially in their death beds, awaiting what was at…

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Physics In History @PhysInHistory

2 years ago

Albert Einstein on his school and Education system💡 It bored me. The teachers behaved like sergeants. I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I…

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The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize

2 years ago

Did you know Philip Noel-Baker is the only person to have both an Olympic and Nobel Prize medal? He won a silver medal for the 1,500 metres during the 1920 Summer Olympic Games. Thirty-nine years later he followed it up with the Nobel Peace Prize: bit.ly/3kmiEAc

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Fascinating @fasc1nate

2 years ago

How many faces do you see in this picture?

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Trung Phan @TrungTPhan

2 years ago

The foundation under Venice is fascinating. There is the equivalent of 10 million tree trunks under the Italian city. At first glance, wood is an inferior option to stronger materials. But it has proven resilient since 5th century AD, when the wood was first gathered from from…

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History Photographed @HistoryInPics

2 years ago

In 1948, Swiss pharmacologist Peter Witt studied the effect of drugs on spiders. He conducted an experiment in which he dosed the spiders by feeding them drugged flies or by giving them a drop of a drug in water. He then photographed their webs before and after the drugs were…

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The History of Progress @histofprogress

2 years ago

In 1961, Leonard Hayflick made a discovery that would forever bear his name. While culturing cells, he noticed that normal cells would stop growing after ~50 divisions. Today the limit of cell division is referred to as the Hayflick limit and it has remarkable implications for…

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The History of Progress @histofprogress

2 years ago

But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile. - Nikola Tesla on intuition

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Massimo @Rainmaker1973

2 years ago

Possibly the best way to preserve the ancient traditions? This is a football game played in the Roman colosseum at Pula Croatia. This is the only remaining Roman amphitheatre to have four side towers and with three Roman orders preserved. It was constructed in 27 BC – 68 CE

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The History of Progress @histofprogress

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Watson & Crick on choosing what to work on.

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The History of Progress @histofprogress

2 years ago

Anti progress…

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2 years ago

Anti progress…

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Physics In History @PhysInHistory

2 years ago

Albert Einstein on Science and Religion 💡 Does there truly exist an insuperable contradiction between religion and science? Can religion be superseded by science? The answers to these questions have, for centuries, given rise to considerable dispute and, indeed, bitter…

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Historic Vids @historyinmemes

2 years ago

What’s the greatest medical advancement of all time?

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John F. Kennedy @JFKSaid

2 years ago

"Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."

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Physics In History @PhysInHistory

2 years ago

The three Titans of quantum mechanics: [L-R] Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger at the Stockholm Railway Station, c. 1933.

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Physics In History @PhysInHistory

2 years ago

Einstein's Zurich Notebook containing his private calculations related to his search for general relativity trying to incorporate gravity into his works of 1905. The notebooks were written between summer of 1912 to early 1913 and were found after his death in 1955. [Source:…

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The History of Progress @histofprogress

2 years ago

We can do so much more than we allow ourselves to. Break ground. This is your only life. Think for yourself and don’t let others tell you what is possible.

kasra @kasratweets

2 years ago

We can do so much more than we allow ourselves to. Break ground. This is your only life. Think for yourself and don’t let others tell you what is possible.