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To pay tribute to all the enslaved people buried in cemeteries with no name, artist Craig Walsh put a face in the trees to honor their souls in an installation in Charlotte, North Carolina, called "Monuments" [read more: buff.ly/3ChbM2N]
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50% of Panda births result in twins, but Panda moms almost always abandon one. Therefore, zookeepers have to switch the cubs every few hours to trick the mom in to caring for both
Yet, with this trick, it's true love
[📹 iPanda: buff.ly/3VlMdDu]
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Tumbleweeds start out as tiny seedlings; by summer the plant has a round shape. They grow flowers and fruits. By fall they dry and detach from their roots, so they spread their seeds
[source: buff.ly/3PEUYWt]
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A brilliant anamorphic painting technique that makes the painting itself disappear
[📹 tcmss1.0 on Douyin: buff.ly/3qXxJx0]
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In 1995, 14 wolves were released in Yellowstone National Park. No one expected the miracle that the wolves would bring
[video, HD: buff.ly/3C69xyG]
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Tigers live in lush tropical jungles with lots of wide rivers. They can have territories as large as 100 square km and being able to swim across rivers is a big evolutionary advantage
[read more: buff.ly/34V46EK]
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This kind of water nozzle protects the fireman by reducing the radiant heat felt by the fireman as well as dangerous gases
[read more: buff.ly/3qJpNPN]
[📹 beerfireman: buff.ly/3LqoBum]
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Finnish operator Renkivain is an excavator perfectionist: their videos show the extreme and satisfying vituosity achieved with a volvo-ewr150e and its different tools
[videos: buff.ly/3OL1KLC]
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This collection of slow motion videos of objects falling in water and cornflour result in spectacular fluid motion effects, with highly unexpected but extremely satisfying geometries and shapes
[📹: buff.ly/3F3pqrc]
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The total area of solar panels it would take to power the world, Europe, and Germany. This map is from Nadine May’s thesis
[source, read first: ow.ly/ga7Z50xBrRU]
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In ceramics, slip trailing is a technique that uses a fine pointed dispenser to apply liquid clay and create ornaments. Surface tension is crucial to the clay behavior
[read more: buff.ly/3I3luZy]
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433 Eros is second-largest near-Earth object with an elongated shape and a mean diameter of approximately 16.8 kilometers. This is its size compared to New York City
[read more: buff.ly/3rXgQDh]
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According to an index developed in 2015, Earth is not the most habitable planet found yet. Kepler-442b, a rocky near-Earth-sized exoplanet that is 1206 light-years away from Earth, has a rating of 0.836. On the other hand, Earth has a rating of 0.829 buff.ly/3bJe6QF
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This breathtaking video shows a Falcon 9 launch viewed from airplane cockpit at flight level
[📹 Edgardo German, HD: buff.ly/3ehHaVi]
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One pretty cool geological fun fact is that the Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range, once connected as the Central Pangean Mountains [read more: buff.ly/3oAZuKP]
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This is the kind of gimballed stove you use on a sailboat to compensate the waves induced motion
[📹 Michael.Thomas: buff.ly/3BTvWPz]
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Madagascar wildlife is so unique that over 90% of it are endemic species that can't be found anywhere else on Earth. Reason for that is that it has been isolated for 88 millions years from other land masses
[read more: buff.ly/2JivKM9]
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Over the course of 3 days scientists pumped 10 tons of cement into an abandoned ant hill. After weeks of digging, the colony’s intricate & impressive structure is revealed. This one
[full video, from "Ants! Natures Secret Power": buff.ly/2ICATyB]
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Nice visualization of Newton's first law: an object will remain at rest, unless acted on by a net external force
[📹How Ridicolous: buff.ly/3bg5CjP]
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Computer engineering for babies
[read more: computerengineeringforbabies.com]
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An unusual scene in the wild: a tiger approaches a pool for an afternoon dip, but it carefully checks the depth of the water before relaxing
[full video, National Geographic: ow.ly/EhGw30n8w8m]
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Kallima inachus, the orange oakleaf, is a butterfly found in Tropical Asia. With wings closed, it closely resembles a dry leaf with dark veins and is a spectacular and commonly cited example of camouflage buff.ly/2yt4bPq [source of the gif: buff.ly/3CDVAG5]
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Airplane wings aren't some rigid chunks of metal: in fact, they probably have a bit more flex than you'd expect. This is the behavior of a Boeing 747's wing in a turbulence
[read more: buff.ly/3E4n73u]
[source: buff.ly/3Ea123u]
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Cheetahs don't roar, they meow.
The ability to roar is made possible by a special two-piece hyoid bone in the throat of the Felidae family's members. Cheetahs only have a one-piece hyoid bone
[📹 meskal44: buff.ly/2VwrnGl]
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The motion of the hip joint.
The hip ligaments are the strongest in the human body. The Y-shaped and twisted iliofemoral ligament has a tensile strength of 350 kg
[read more: buff.ly/3TcHxQv]
[📹 Anatomy Standard: buff.ly/3TaJJrE]
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