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Simas Snežko built a mechanical model of a car out of wood. And it's not just some pistons moving up and down in a drilled-out block of wood—the model is a V8 with a working transmission, a differential and a clutch
[read more: buff.ly/3sI66aE]
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This video by Pure Life shows how traditional Uzbek bread is made. The doughs are baked upside down, where the heat keeps them in place and the bakers know exactly when to grab them out of the oven before they fall off [full video: buff.ly/3FMoN2i]
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Instagam's Taitan21 mainly takes pictures of the scenery of Mt. Fuji around Fuji City and Fujinomiya City every day. This is a majestic view of Mt. Fuji surmounted by lenticular clouds while reflected in a lake [source, more pictures: buff.ly/3RNAzkv]
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The spectacular sight of mountain goats defying gravity on a vertical dam wall in Italy, and all because they have a craving for some of Earth's elements essential to life [full video by BBC with @ProfBrianCox: buff.ly/3sHnxry]
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Before 3D printing there was the photo sculpture, a process invented in the XIX century for the reproducing subjects in 3-dimensions by taking a series of photos in the round. This is a 1939 footage
[📹 British Paté: buff.ly/3BYRmcW]
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Ontario photographer Cody Evans took roughly 10,000 photographs during the lake-effect storm on Nov. 19, 2022 on Lake Eerie. One of them resulted particularly striking and he title it "Poseidon's Wrath"
[source, read more: buff.ly/3XERoRA]
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Photographer Axel Bocker took a glorious damselfly close-up in Germany and earned a spot as a finalist in the 2021 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards
[source: buff.ly/3kYtApd]
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Created by morn1415 in 2016, this video about the true scale of the universe had 41 million views on YouTube and it's still a great clip to watch.
[full video, HD: buff.ly/3zWjDjt]
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Odd as it may seem, this occurred in 2020 in Ogre, Latvia and it's another example of how smart are corvids. This crow was literally explaining to a hedgehog that it had to cross the road
[read more: buff.ly/2SKBBQH]
[📹: buff.ly/3nJ5cbK]
twitter.com/cryptogemhodl/…
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Deniz Sağdıç turns what we consider waste into human portraits, drawing attention to pollution and showing that even the simplest materials can be used to produce an artwork, creating sustainable art
Instagram: buff.ly/3ArRXmI
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This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977.
Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.
[full interview: buff.ly/3h2ufYP]
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NickFlightX has captured on video the perfect synchronized touchdowns at SFO (San Francisco Airport) with a United 737 MAX 9 and Alaska E175 landing together.
[more clips by the author: buff.ly/3uUEjq6]
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Sexual dimorphism of the human pelvis illustrated.
The balls represent the size of a newborn baby's head, which will pass through the female pelvis fairly easily, but will get stuck in the male pelvis
[read more: buff.ly/3HcBPL4]
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Fun fact: the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost part of Brazil [read more: buff.ly/2Q73lxK]
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Inspired by solar furnaces, this parabolic mirror concentrates light onto a focal point, and can be consequently used for more mundane tasks in place of industrial purposes
[how it works: buff.ly/3vZapSz]
[📹 buff.ly/3vZJYvU]
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Dubbed Los Caracoles (snails), this is a portion of the CH-60, also called Ruta 60. It connects Santiago to Chile to Argentina through the Andes Cordillera. Its distinctive trait is this set of 29 hairpin turns
[read more: buff.ly/3Fa2sz9]
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Dendrosenecio kilimanjari is a giant groundsel found atop Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. The giant grounsels of the genus Dendrosenecio evolved, about a million years ago, from a Senecio that established itself on Mount Kilimanjaro
[read more: ow.ly/A2PL50Bdw1F]
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Bismuth crystals have a peculiar spiral, stair-stepped structure with silver-pink hue, often with an iridescent oxide tarnish showing many colors from yellow to blue. This is how one can obtain them.
[📹 joemyheck: buff.ly/3C7uxoD]
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The cecropia moth is North America's largest native moth. As an adult, it doesn’t have a functioning mouth, since its only purpose is to mate. They survive ~2 weeks [read more: buff.ly/2YCaFWF-] [clip by mackattack_zoology: buff.ly/3E6UQJR-]
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5 years ago #Today, @CassiniSaturn reached the end of its pluriennial mission in space. A mission meant to last 3 years in orbit around Saturn, and instead the spacecraft spent 13 years, 76 days there, closing with a Grand Finale [360° coverage: buff.ly/2xe4XwK]
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On Mocha Island, Chile, natural gas from underwater vents and seeps can originate phenomena like this one
[read more: buff.ly/3Lvl4uj]
[source: buff.ly/3LA1ay8]
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In New Mexico, just east of Albuquerque, you can drive east on Route 66 and hit a rumble strip that plays "America the Beautiful" if you drive at the speed limit, 45 mph, turning the wheels of your car into a phonograph [read more: thesingingroad.com]
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How high you would jump on other planets or moons?
[📹 MetaBallStudios: buff.ly/3Jzo5sW]
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Many creatures wear disguises in order to keep safe from predators, but there are some that dress to kill. Orchid mantises are one of nature’s most awesome examples of aggressive mimicry [video: buff.ly/3lYRHG7-]
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Mount Taranaki National Park has an almost perfectly circular boundary: the change in vegetation is so sharply delineated that the photos from above show an incredibly neat base [read more: buff.ly/2jp3r3B]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links