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Eggplant tastes like something you’d think of as a veggie, but it’s technically a kind of fruit. And more specifically, it's a berry by botanical definition. Here's a time-lapse from seed to eggplant in 87 days
[📹 Boxlapse: buff.ly/3T9V3n8]
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Pulled string art is a simple technique that uses paint and a strings to obtain remarkable and always unexpected results [read more: buff.ly/2It4CJT]
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UV light is absorbed by the sodalite mineral, which then re-emits radiation at a longer wavelength – and it turns to a golden, lava-like color
[read more: buff.ly/3YVenbM]
[📹wild_nrocks: buff.ly/32zf6E1]
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Grafting is a horticultural technique whereby tissues of plants are joined so as to continue their growth together. This video by Deepa Doura shows a standard process to conduct it [full video: buff.ly/3GwR9yH] [read more: buff.ly/3lAaQxa]
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Azurite is a basic carbonate with the chemical formula Cu₃(CO₃)₂(OH)₂, a soft, deep-blue copper mineral produced by weathering of copper ore deposits
[read more: buff.ly/3eiKKyz]
[📹 Mineralcity/Tomasz Praszkier]
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The Gerenuk is is a long necked species of antelope which is often referred to as a giraffe necked antelope. They are an unusual looking creature because their head is rather small but their eyes and ears are big, giving them a very peculiar appearance buff.ly/2tn5r1k
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«Le Petit Chef» restaurants playfully guide diners through an interactive experience where the story behind each course is brought to life through cutting edge projection-mapping created by the world-famous artists of Skullmapping lepetitchef.com
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This deceiving grid tricks you into thinking there's a curved line somewhere, but you can't find it. The purposefully placed gray lines will induce your peripheral vision to interpolate curved lines
[image by Lesha Porche. Explanation: buff.ly/3b79VC8]
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𝗠𝘆𝘁𝗵: Lightning never strikes in one place twice.
𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁: lightning can, and often does, strike the same place repeatedly—especially if it’s a tall and isolated object, like a tree
[source, NOAA: buff.ly/3xIkbHM]
[📹 buff.ly/3ezJLKg]
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Flatworms have a peculiar characteristic: when sliced in pieces, each piece will grow into a complete flatworm, just like the original one
[source, read more: buff.ly/3wVFCX2]
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"Persistence of vision display" or POV display are LED devices that compose images by displaying one spatial portion at a time in rapid succession. One example are Hologram Fans
[read more: buff.ly/3ykp0cd]
[📹US Gadgets: buff.ly/3fLsGgE]
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The scale of the universe
[source 📹: buff.ly/3yxfpih]
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Born 135 years ago #Today, Srinivasa Ramanujan had almost no formal training in pure mathematics but made substantial contributions to analysis, number theory and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable bit.ly/2zhi5ix
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One year ago #Today, the James Webb Space Telescope was launched
[video: buff.ly/3hLj5bj]
[art by Ben Alp, van Gogh's Starry Night with the first image from JWST: buff.ly/3vlh6xe]
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Louisa's multiple sclerosis related spasticity before & after wearing the Exopulse Mollii Suit. Just 1 hour of near full-body stimulation improves her balance, gait, & stability, and helps make everyday tasks easier for her
[more: buff.ly/3O5j7Gr]
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These incredible salt formations can be seen in the south, southwest, and central areas of Iran. The best examples are found in the Zagros mountains that run parallel to Iran’s coast on the Persian Gulf [read more: buff.ly/3ksLL4c]
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You may remember this tweet. My sister and I finally had a go for respectively donating and receiving a kidney. My transplant will be in October, either before mid-month or at the end of the month 1/🧵
twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/…
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Here are some sounds you'll recognize if you were alive in the 1980s. All of the sounds are created by interacting with these then-everyday objects.
[more videos by rerunthe80s: buff.ly/3spG9OB]
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This photo captures a remarkable moment: the Colima volcano erupting in a plume of ash and lava as lightning strikes, illuminating the scene against a sky filled with stars
[Sergio Tapiro, 2016: buff.ly/2wTwMcI]
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Squeezable lightbulbs like Incredibulb use A19 LED lights and flexible silicone, which keeps them shatterproof throughout use. The rubberized material also ensures that the bulb is never hot to touch
[read more: theincredibulb.com]
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There's a forest in Poland where all the trees have this weird shape and nobody is sure about the reason [read more, hypotheses: bit.ly/2rbshcI]
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The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) is an oceanic turtle that can measure up to 280 cm in length buff.ly/2UK2e8t [source of the gif, Pelagic Ventures Scuba:buff.ly/3nja485]
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This is how WWII bunkers in Normandy used a fake air vent to return grenade to sender
[📹 Normandybunkers, read more: buff.ly/3gZMaz5]
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Andreas Wannerstedt crafts unique 3D sculptures and mesmerizing looping animations. His synchronised animations have often been described as “oddly satisfying”, since the overall effect evokes a hypnotizing feeling [Instagram: buff.ly/2Bd8obg]
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The ocean sunfish (Mola mola) is one of the heaviest known bony fishes in the world. Adults typically weigh between 247 and 1,000 kg (545–2,205 lb). Yet, Newly hatched sunfish larvae are only 2.5 mm (3⁄32 in) long and weigh less than one gram [read more: ow.ly/ibW050AGZbW]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links