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Wolves live, hunt, raise young and spend most of their lives in packs.
This video by Reddit user u/Alloth- shows an evocative migration of a pack through the snow
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Many homes in Pompeii baked their own bread, but it seems that bakeries or pistrina were popular food outlets in the town. These are loaves of bread carbonized in the volcanic pyroclastic flows of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE
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This classic video shows what would happen if a large asteroid (diameter ~ 500 km) hit the Earth somewhere in the Pacific Ocean
[Anselmo La Manna + read more: buff.ly/3DlBgcq]
954
During courtship, the male red-eared slider swims around the female and flutters the back side of his long claws around her face, possibly to direct pheromones towards her
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955
Wood planing is the art of shaving wood into very thin strips: a select group of experts in Japan compete to shave off the thinnest piece of wood possible. This video by xtol.ren shows how it's done
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956
Static grass applicators use relatively high voltage (40,000 V) to apply and recreate realistic grass in diorama and model railroads
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[📹 Model Railroad Hobbyist]
957
This clip is a magnificent visualization of the toroidal structure and flow of a smoke ring
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958
In the 1920s-30s airship mooring masts were built in many countries. Without doubt the tallest mooring mast ever designed was the spire of the Empire State Building. The top pic shows British M.P.s walk onto an airship gangplank, in Cardington, England buff.ly/2Qo8otD
959
Dry-ice blasting uses dry ice, the solid form of carbon dioxide, accelerated in a pressurized air stream. Here it's used used to deburr and deflash in preparation prior to painting
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960
The exploding whale. The weird story of when Oregon authorities decided that the best way to dispose of a whale carcass was to blow it up with half a ton of dynamite, causing blubber to rain down everywhere
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961
The best number is 73.
73 is the 21st prime number.
Its mirror (37) is the 12th and its mirror (21) is the product of multiplying 7 and 3.
In binary, 73 is a palindrome, 1001001 which backwards is 1001001
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962
The hammered dulcimer is a percussion-stringed instrument which consists of strings stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board, played with a mallet hammer.
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963
For the past decade, Simon Beck has been decorating the Alps with his stunning mathematical drawings, created by running in snowshoes across freshly laid snow
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964
Theo Jansen has been constructing large-scale, kinetic beings powered entirely by wind since 1990. Based on a planar leg mechanism known as Jansen's linkage, you can often see them waddle, wriggle, or slither across a Dutch beaches strandbeest.com
965
This is an animated representation of all the multi-planet systems discovered in the Milky Way galaxy by NASA Kepler Space Telescope as of October 30, 2018. The systems are shown together at the same scale as our Solar System (dashed lines) [source, NASA: buff.ly/2KC5oHQ]
966
Killer whales are notable for their complex societies only comparable to elephants & higher primates. Unlike any other mammal, killer whales live with their mothers for their entire lives & as they can reach age 90, as many as 4 generations travel together buff.ly/3vRtvYf
967
Laser ablation or photoablation is the process of removing material from a surface by irradiating it with a laser beam: rust removal from iron objects is especially efficient: buff.ly/3H7BVkq. But safety eyewear should be always used [source: buff.ly/3BZRfMu]
968
The average life span of a wombat in the wild is estimated to be 15 years and 20 years in captivity. Patrick, a wombat of the Ballarat Wildlife Park in Australia, lived for 31 years, which is like a human that lived for about 130 years [read more: buff.ly/2qXwSOr]
969
You may have never seen DNA imaged with an electron microscope, so here it is
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970
Born #Today in 1894, Satyendra Nath Bose was mathematician and physicist. He's best known for his collaboration with Albert Einstein in developing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate buff.ly/2kaI0qZ
971
The incredible moment newborn twins reach out to hold hands.
Scientists this is only a continuation of what already happens in the womb.
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972
The yeti crab, an unusual, hairy crab with no eyes, was discovered in 2005 on a hydrothermal vent near Easter Island. It is notable for the quantity of silky blond setae (resembling fur) covering its pereiopods (thoracic legs, including claws) buff.ly/2lxeqJl
973
Perfectly normal photo of Adele, isn't it? Just turn the picture upside down... [and learn about the Thatcher effect or why your brain can't properly process a photo of a face that is upside down: buff.ly/2DKqSMp]
974
Strange as this may sound, when a bee hive becomes too full, bees will form a "senate" comprised of more experienced bees to seek a new location. When the location has been found, they vote on it by dancing as a collective until a consensus is reached buff.ly/2PPpd1O
975
Diamond Head is a volcanic tuff cone on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu. It was created by the eruptions from the Koʻolau Volcano and is estimated to be about 400,000 to 500,000 years old.
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Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links