@MrOScience

Presidential Award 4 Excellence/Math -Science Teaching 2014, Golden Apple Teacher of Distinction 2017 & 23, Golden Apple Scholar Mentor, Professor SIU, NBCT/MCG

Joined August 2013
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The mesmerizing patterns formed on China's Qiantang River at sunset when a tidal bore splits in two and collides with itself.
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@Rainmaker1973Jul 12
Fun fact. The Monarch butterfly migration is one of the longest-known, multi-generational insect migrations on our planet. Every fourth generation lives 8 times longer than the previous generations and travels 10 times farther.
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No thoughts, just sunflowers 🌻
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Bro nearly touched the moon🤣🌕 xitter.cf/FeelYouHappy/status/20…
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Fast food!
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A bobcat's leap in slow motion. 📽: BBC
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NASA
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It’s not a straight shot to the far side of the Moon! 🌕 Over approximately 10 days, the Artemis II astronauts will orbit Earth twice before looping around the far side of the Moon in a figure eight and returning home.
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The Blob-top Jelly (Neoturris breviconis) is a hydrozoan found in cold northern waters of the Arctic, Atlantic, and Pacific. 📽: Maxwel Hohn xitter.cf/NEO_3_6_9/status/18639…
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Massimo
@Rainmaker1973Feb 20
Every year, the shores of Costa Rica host the largest sea turtle gathering on Earth, an extraordinary event known as an arribada (Spanish for "arrival"). [📹 forevergreen. earth]

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A kingfisher's remarkable head stabilization while hunting.
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Chinstrap penguins clumsily diving off an iceberg into the water. 📽: Preben Alexander Jensen
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Earth
@earthcurated2 Nov 2025
something about gazing at trees feels so peaceful 🌲
Photography by Casey Horner

ALT Photography by Casey Horner

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Kestrels are basically the hover kings of the bird world! 🛑🕊️ With nothing but their wings and wild skill, they can stay frozen mid-air like nature hit the pause button.
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Black skimmers exhibit a trait we could all learn from: persistence. They, like other wildlife never give up and it’s not by choice. They simply can’t. It’s not an option. If they want to survive, they must keep trying over and over again.
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We had a great time doing arts and crafts at the picnic. The weather ended up being beautiful! ⁦@SkokieSD69⁩ ⁦@EdisonDolphins⁩
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Farmer using a plastic bag to slow down the flow of water so the soil absorbs it more effectively
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Reindeer cyclones are an anti-predator defensive strategy where a herd of reindeer runs in a circular rotating formation to disorient predators. 📽: Lev Fedoseyev xitter.cf/CCBF_Caribou/status/13…
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Giant honeybees doing a defence wave 'shimmering' behaviour when a predator approaches A chemical called Nasonov pheromone is released to embolden them to stay together
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Sea lions playing in huge waves near Santa Barbara Island. 📽: Ryan Lawler xitter.cf/SteveStuWill/status/13…
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