Think Outside Of The Box. That's Where The Magic Happens.

#TodayInSTEM - NASA's Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets – the single largest finding of planets to date. This artist's concept depicts select planetary discoveries made to date by NASA's Kepler space telescope. Credits: NASA/W. Read more HERE: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasas-kepler-mission-announces-largest-collection-of-planets-ever-discovered #STEM #NASA #NASASocial #Kepler #Plantets #Telescope #STEMists

Celebrate #EngineersWeek2016: #TBT Hedy Lamarr is famous as a glamorous movie star from the black-and-white era of film. But what most people don't know about her is that, in 1942, she co-invented a device that helped make possible the development of GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi technology! Born in Austria in 1914, the mathematically talented Lamarr moved to the US in 1937 to start a #Hollywood career. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, she was considered one of cinema's leading ladies and made numerous films; however, her passion for engineering is far less known today. Her interest in inventing was such that she set up an #engineering room in her house complete with a drafting table and wall of engineering reference books. With the outbreak of World War II, Lamarr wanted to apply her skills to helping the war effort and, motivated by reports of German U-boats sinking ships in the Atlantic, she began investigating ways to improve torpedo technology. After Lamar met composer George Antheil, who had been experimenting with automated control of #musical instruments, together they hit on the idea of "frequency hopping." At the time, radio-controlled torpedoes could easily be detected and jammed by broadcasting interference at the frequency of the control signal, thereby causing the #torpedo to go off course. Lamarr and Antheil were granted a patent for their invention on August 11, 1942, but the US #Navy wasn't interested in applying their groundbreaking technology until twenty years later when it was used on #military ships during a blockade of Cuba in 1962. Lamarr and Antheil's frequency-hopping concept serves as a basis for the spread-spectrum communication #technology used in #GPS, #WiFi and #Bluetooth devices. Unfortunately, Lamarr's part in its development has been largely overlooked and her efforts weren't recognized until 1997, when the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave her an award for her technological contributions. Hedy Lamarr passed away in 2000 at the age of 85 and, in 2014, she was at long last inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for her invention of a "Secret Communication System" many years ago. Text credit: A Mighty Girl #HedyLamarr

Many Hearts, One Beat The connection is known as "respiratory sinus arrhythmia", and is thought to be induced by the "vagus nerve" becoming activated by exhaling.   To prounounce the word "arrhythmia" click here:  http://bit.ly/15RwMEi Definition of vargus nerve:  http://bit.ly/19omtO0 Picture of a vagus nerve:  http://bit.ly/15Rx2Dd Via Science Is Awesome More info: http://bit.ly/18mkPfV Photo: Pomona College

Are you snowed in today? Those beautiful snowflakes once started as a cold water droplet that froze on to pollen or a dust particle in the sky. Pretty cool!  Learn more about the creation of a snowflake!

Luke, I am your snow father... Darth Vader looms large in 'Star Wars' snow sculpture in Japan. [via cnet] #LetItSnow #StarWars #DarthVader #Luke

#STEMists know this to be true... https://www.instagram.com/p/B2rdewxhgbH/?igshid=1it4mc00bkypq

Count down to launch!  

3...2...1...Einstein in a Box will launch its website October 1st, 2013! Introducing our "Lunar Launch Box!"  Children 8+ will be assigned very important missions as "Rocket Engineers."  Experience all the wonders, beauty, and adventure as Einstein in a Box launches to the Moon, the International Space Station, and beyond.  The universe is waiting for YOU so lets start discovering! www.EinsteinInABox.com

#STEMists know 👉 Always be yourself. Unless you can be Jedi Betty White, always be Jedi Betty White. Pin It Here: https://www.groovylabinabox.com/jedi-betty-white/ #BeYourself #BettyWhite #JediBettyWhite https://www.instagram.com/p/B1tAa9QhGgy/?igshid=edxc3u7fj00g

What's better than wishing upon a star? Why not wish upon seven stars! Catch a glimpse of the infamous Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades cluster, as well as Neptune and Jupiter sightings all this week! http://bit.ly/1c9Onf0

Throwing it way back! #TBT Pretty groovy, right? It's a map of Pangea - a supercontinent that formed roughly 300 million years ago - mapped with contemporary geopolitical borders. What you see here is an anachronistic mashup - a modern map, complete with geological features that did not exist 300-million years ago, with its various parts relocated to the general position they would have occupied before Pangea began rifting apart some 200-million years ago. It's a view of the supercontinent not often seen, and a mind-bending way of relating to the world on a geological time scale. #Pangea #ThrowbackThursday #supercontinent #ContinentalDrift