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  1. 🧲 WATCH: In the early #20thcentury, classic #physics suggested that magnetism should not exist, contradicting centuries of compass navigation.

    An animated lesson from #TEDEd explains how subatomic forces like #quantum spin and #electron orientation finally solved this physical contradiction and power modern #electronics.

    👉 seethis.tv/post/how-do-magnets

    #1920s #animation #atoms #discoveries #elements #energy #howthingswork #inventions #magnets #materials #metal #molecules #neutron #proton #science #history #technology #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video

  2. 🧲 WATCH: In the early #20thcentury, classic #physics suggested that magnetism should not exist, contradicting centuries of compass navigation.

    An animated lesson from #TEDEd explains how subatomic forces like #quantum spin and #electron orientation finally solved this physical contradiction and power modern #electronics.

    👉 seethis.tv/post/how-do-magnets

    #1920s #animation #atoms #discoveries #elements #energy #howthingswork #inventions #magnets #materials #metal #molecules #neutron #proton #science #history #technology #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video

  3. 🧲 WATCH: In the early #20thcentury, classic #physics suggested that magnetism should not exist, contradicting centuries of compass navigation.

    An animated lesson from #TEDEd explains how subatomic forces like #quantum spin and #electron orientation finally solved this physical contradiction and power modern #electronics.

    👉 seethis.tv/post/how-do-magnets

    #1920s #animation #atoms #discoveries #elements #energy #howthingswork #inventions #magnets #materials #metal #molecules #neutron #proton #science #history #technology #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video

  4. 🧲 WATCH: In the early #20thcentury, classic #physics suggested that magnetism should not exist, contradicting centuries of compass navigation.

    An animated lesson from #TEDEd explains how subatomic forces like #quantum spin and #electron orientation finally solved this physical contradiction and power modern #electronics.

    👉 seethis.tv/post/how-do-magnets

    #1920s #animation #atoms #discoveries #elements #energy #howthingswork #inventions #magnets #materials #metal #molecules #neutron #proton #science #history #technology #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video

  5. 🧲 WATCH: In the early #20thcentury, classic #physics suggested that magnetism should not exist, contradicting centuries of compass navigation.

    An animated lesson from #TEDEd explains how subatomic forces like #quantum spin and #electron orientation finally solved this physical contradiction and power modern #electronics.

    👉 seethis.tv/post/how-do-magnets

    #1920s #animation #atoms #discoveries #elements #energy #howthingswork #inventions #magnets #materials #metal #molecules #neutron #proton #science #history #technology #tech #womeninstem #tksst #video

  6. Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying,
    Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now,
    Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying,
    My heart remembers how!

    —Robert Louis Stevenson, “To S. R. Crockett (In Reply to a Dedication)”

    4/5

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #RobertLouisStevenson #poem #poetry

  7. Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying,
    Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now,
    Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying,
    My heart remembers how!

    —Robert Louis Stevenson, “To S. R. Crockett (In Reply to a Dedication)”

    4/5

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #RobertLouisStevenson #poem #poetry

  8. Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying,
    Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now,
    Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying,
    My heart remembers how!

    —Robert Louis Stevenson, “To S. R. Crockett (In Reply to a Dedication)”

    4/5

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #RobertLouisStevenson #poem #poetry

  9. Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying,
    Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now,
    Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying,
    My heart remembers how!

    —Robert Louis Stevenson, “To S. R. Crockett (In Reply to a Dedication)”

    4/5

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #RobertLouisStevenson #poem #poetry

  10. Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying,
    Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now,
    Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying,
    My heart remembers how!

    —Robert Louis Stevenson, “To S. R. Crockett (In Reply to a Dedication)”

    4/5

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #RobertLouisStevenson #poem #poetry

  11. @gutenberg_org have a number of Crockett’s works for free download, including THE BLACK DOUGLAS (1899) – which gave Tolkien ideas from battles with wargs to secret coats of chainmail – & THE GREY MAN (1896), with its nightmarish account of the cannibal Sawny Bean…

    3/5

    gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/15

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #Tolkien #historicalfiction

  12. @gutenberg_org have a number of Crockett’s works for free download, including THE BLACK DOUGLAS (1899) – which gave Tolkien ideas from battles with wargs to secret coats of chainmail – & THE GREY MAN (1896), with its nightmarish account of the cannibal Sawny Bean…

    3/5

    gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/15

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #Tolkien #historicalfiction

  13. @gutenberg_org have a number of Crockett’s works for free download, including THE BLACK DOUGLAS (1899) – which gave Tolkien ideas from battles with wargs to secret coats of chainmail – & THE GREY MAN (1896), with its nightmarish account of the cannibal Sawny Bean…

    3/5

    gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/15

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #Tolkien #historicalfiction

  14. @gutenberg_org have a number of Crockett’s works for free download, including THE BLACK DOUGLAS (1899) – which gave Tolkien ideas from battles with wargs to secret coats of chainmail – & THE GREY MAN (1896), with its nightmarish account of the cannibal Sawny Bean…

    3/5

    gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/15

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #Tolkien #historicalfiction

  15. @gutenberg_org have a number of Crockett’s works for free download, including THE BLACK DOUGLAS (1899) – which gave Tolkien ideas from battles with wargs to secret coats of chainmail – & THE GREY MAN (1896), with its nightmarish account of the cannibal Sawny Bean…

    3/5

    gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/15

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #Tolkien #historicalfiction

  16. THE RAIDERS
    Currently on BBC Sounds

    SR Crockett’s THE RAIDERS (1894), “Scotland’s forgotten bestseller”, is a classic of Scottish literature – full of kidnap, love & breathless adventure, set in the wild Galloway landscape. Adapted by Clara Glynn

    2/5

    bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zmn1

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #adventure #audiobooks

  17. THE RAIDERS
    Currently on BBC Sounds

    SR Crockett’s THE RAIDERS (1894), “Scotland’s forgotten bestseller”, is a classic of Scottish literature – full of kidnap, love & breathless adventure, set in the wild Galloway landscape. Adapted by Clara Glynn

    2/5

    bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zmn1

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #adventure #audiobooks

  18. THE RAIDERS
    Currently on BBC Sounds

    SR Crockett’s THE RAIDERS (1894), “Scotland’s forgotten bestseller”, is a classic of Scottish literature – full of kidnap, love & breathless adventure, set in the wild Galloway landscape. Adapted by Clara Glynn

    2/5

    bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zmn1

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #adventure #audiobooks

  19. THE RAIDERS
    Currently on BBC Sounds

    SR Crockett’s THE RAIDERS (1894), “Scotland’s forgotten bestseller”, is a classic of Scottish literature – full of kidnap, love & breathless adventure, set in the wild Galloway landscape. Adapted by Clara Glynn

    2/5

    bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zmn1

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #adventure #audiobooks

  20. THE RAIDERS
    Currently on BBC Sounds

    SR Crockett’s THE RAIDERS (1894), “Scotland’s forgotten bestseller”, is a classic of Scottish literature – full of kidnap, love & breathless adventure, set in the wild Galloway landscape. Adapted by Clara Glynn

    2/5

    bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zmn1

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #adventure #audiobooks

  21. SR Crockett (1859–1914) was born #OTD, 24 Sep. A bestselling author of 60+ novels, he fell from fashion, his books dismissed as “kailyard”. But Tolkien cites Crockett as an inspiration, & in VIDA, or THE IRON LORD (1907) he possibly wrote the first car chase in fiction

    1/5

    1890s.ca/crockett_bio/

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #Tolkien

  22. SR Crockett (1859–1914) was born #OTD, 24 Sep. A bestselling author of 60+ novels, he fell from fashion, his books dismissed as “kailyard”. But Tolkien cites Crockett as an inspiration, & in VIDA, or THE IRON LORD (1907) he possibly wrote the first car chase in fiction

    1/5

    1890s.ca/crockett_bio/

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #Tolkien

  23. SR Crockett (1859–1914) was born #OTD, 24 Sep. A bestselling author of 60+ novels, he fell from fashion, his books dismissed as “kailyard”. But Tolkien cites Crockett as an inspiration, & in VIDA, or THE IRON LORD (1907) he possibly wrote the first car chase in fiction

    1/5

    1890s.ca/crockett_bio/

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #Tolkien

  24. SR Crockett (1859–1914) was born #OTD, 24 Sep. A bestselling author of 60+ novels, he fell from fashion, his books dismissed as “kailyard”. But Tolkien cites Crockett as an inspiration, & in VIDA, or THE IRON LORD (1907) he possibly wrote the first car chase in fiction

    1/5

    1890s.ca/crockett_bio/

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #Tolkien

  25. SR Crockett (1859–1914) was born #OTD, 24 Sep. A bestselling author of 60+ novels, he fell from fashion, his books dismissed as “kailyard”. But Tolkien cites Crockett as an inspiration, & in VIDA, or THE IRON LORD (1907) he possibly wrote the first car chase in fiction

    1/5

    1890s.ca/crockett_bio/

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #Tolkien