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Today is the birthday of Rosalind Franklin, the chemist who helped discover the structure of DNA. Born July 25, 1920, her work was crucial to refining the double helix model, though she went uncredited for years.
Celebrate her life with DNA inspired knitting patterns like these from my science pattern post
intheloopknitting.com/science-…

#knitting #otd #science

1. Free Baby’s First DNA Model double helix softie. Designed by Kimberly Chapman. Pictured project by kittyvonditty 2. Free DNA Scarf knit with a a cable modeled after the double helix of DNA. Designed by June Oshiro. Pictured project by 1les 3. Free DNA Sweater Shell tank top with double helix cable framed with diamond and torchon lace patterns. Designed by Chris O'Brien. Pictured project by OctopusKnits 4. DNA Beanie Hat with cable and textured patterns inspired by the helix structure of the DNA molecule. Designed by AlisFiberArts.

Science Inspired Knitting Patterns - In the Loop Knitting

Knitting patterns inspired by astronomy, biology, geology, physics, chemistry, and other sciences.
intheloopknitting.com
#science #otd #knitting

The original comic strip of one of the most recognisable and frequently replicated 'Peanuts' scenes, showing Charlie Brown and Snoopy sitting on a wooden dock and gazing at the sunset together, was published 36 years ago, on July 18, 1990. It's a single panel with a pretty basic scene, but it channels Schulz's distinct melancholy in such a simple, tender way that I think that's the reason it stuck.

#OTD #OnThisDay #Peanuts #Comics #ComicStrip #Comic #Snoopy

A scene showing Charlie Brown on the left, and Snoopy on the right, their backs turned as they face forward, sitting on a wooden dock during sunset, with Charlie Brown saying "I don't know... I always feel sort of sad when I see the sun go down..." and Snoopy replying "Like when you've eaten the last cookie..."
#OnThisDay #comic #comics #otd #comicstrip #Peanuts #snoopy

100 years ago #OTD the #planetarium in #Jena (Germany) opened to the public: it's the oldest one in the world srill operating in the same location! Scroll down on skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/07/… for some news coverage back then and the wider context.
View of the dome from the Jentower in 2021.

Die Leuchtenden Nachtwolken sind weiter aktiv

Wobei vor allem im Ostseeraum und in Skandinavien die besten Displays zu sehen waren – der Westen Deutschlands ging außer am 29. Juni („Und was für eine Show dann folgte …“)…
Skyweek Zwei Punkt Null
#otd #planetarium #jena

#otd 1919 after a Black teacher exposed a local lynching — “a crowd of almost 1,000 whites began to gather back in town with some breaking into Welch’s Hardware Store to take #guns and ammunition. The crowd burned down Jones’s home, Dr. Davis’s home and office, and a black dance hall”
#history
blackpast.org/african-american…
#History #otd #guns

47 years ago today
The B-52's is the debut album of the American band The B-52s, released on this day in 1979, includes the singles Planet Clair and Rock Lobster

#punk #punks #punkrock #newwave #theb52s #history #punkrockhistory #otd

#History #otd #punk #punkrock #newwave #punks #punkrockhistory #theb52s

#OTD July 4th, 1997, using its own array of fireworks, a parachute, and a cocoon of airbags, the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft bounced like a giant beach ball at least 15 times before it came to rest on the surface of Mars at 10:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time...

via NASA apod

Photograph of NASA Pathfinder lander and the Sourjouner rover taken by the onboard camera from the surface of Mars
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😍 81 years young 💥
Happy Birthday to the georgeous, fantastic Angela Trimble aka Deborah Ann Harry, born on this day in 1945, Miami, Florida.

Photo by John Lamparski

#punkrock #womenofpunk #debbieharry #blondie #history #punkrockhistory #otd

#History #otd #punkrock #punkrockhistory #womenofpunk #DebbieHarry #blondie

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