1076
When in the water, marine iguanas' blood circulation is reduced, with a heart rate of ~30 bpm vs 100 bpm on land, allowing them to better conserve their warmth [read more: buff.ly/3DTPx13-] [video by Kenzo Kiren: buff.ly/3HH06Xp-]
1077
Agatized coral is found in ancient ocean beds, where silica rich groundwater has percolated through them and over time has replaced it's calcium carbonate skeleton with a hard variety of Chalcedony
[read more: ow.ly/vJkL30nMId3]
[📹 buff.ly/3HcWFGU]
1078
Dr Tatiana Erukhimova from TAMU Physics demonstrates Newton's first law with a masterful egg drop
[📹 TAMU Physics & Astronomy: buff.ly/3zrXjz3]
1079
The BullseyeBore is a drill attachment using lasers to tell you if you’re drilling straight. The attachment can be affixed to any drill and works in any orientation. The laser projections even provide visual cues on drill bit depth [read more: bullseyebore.com]
1080
Yes, the 1950s were definitely a simpler time
[read more on snopes.com: bit.ly/2aPjHUw]
1081
JamHamster built this virtual tape deck with a cassette tape shell and the head from a cassette audio adapter using an Arduino Nano to store tape data files and replay them to load software on a ZX Spectrum +2
[read more: buff.ly/3h8x2u1]
1082
The Megalodon is an extinct species of shark that lived approximately 23 to 2.6 million years ago. Reaching 20 meters in length, it looked like a stockier version of the modern day great white shark: this is a comparison between their teeth [read more: buff.ly/2qoyqj1]
1083
These odd-looking bugs were spotted in 2017 by Mandy Trichell in Texas. They are likely Homaemus proteus and show a curious and interesting colelctive behavior
[source, Storyful: buff.ly/3BhtUc1]
[more info: buff.ly/3AQtDv1]
1084
The earless monitor lizard (Lanthanotus borneensis) is a semiaquatic, brown lizard native to the Southeast Asian island of Borneo. It is the only living species in the family Lanthanotidae and their appearance recalls that of a real life dragon ow.ly/oPTy30noXEM
1085
El Castillo is a Mesoamerican step-pyramid that dominates the center of the Chichen Itza archaeological site in the Mexican state of Yucatán. This is a glimpse of the impressive light show held on the pyramid
[read more: buff.ly/2ZBc3ZE]
1086
The lava formations you can spot at West Kamokuna Skylight, HI look like Dante's damned soul sliding into hell
[source, read more: buff.ly/2kk2nAA]
1087
This hornets' nest found on a window in Roswell, Georgia, gave us the natural opportunity to see the nest's interior and its inner workings
[source, ViralHog: buff.ly/3P077EY]
1088
Meet MorpHex MKIII, the transforming robot [source, full video: buff.ly/2Loh0gC]
1089
This is the dance a male peacock spider performs to attract a female. But he needs to be careful: if the female is not interested, she may attack, kill, and feed on him, and she may also do this after mating
[📹 Michael Doe: buff.ly/3hfSeUl]
1090
This now classic NASA video shows a space shuttle's solid rocket booster journey from launch to landing, with sound mixed and enhanced by Skywalker Sound [full video: buff.ly/30WLum1]
1091
An impossible water circuit analogy of electrical physics [source: buff.ly/3loIshw]
1092
Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat. Following rain, a thin layer of dead calm water transforms the flat into the world's largest mirror, 129 km across
[read more: buff.ly/37Ugxma]
1093
«I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties, that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start with» -- Isaac Asimov buff.ly/3dvByR8
1094
Space start-up Relativity Space Stargate device is capable of building a rocket fuel tank with a 3D printing process. This is a time lapse of the printing process of the ACO tank for the Terran 1 rocket [read more: buff.ly/2nvsGXn]
1095
How's you anxiety?
A scenic spot in Chongqing, China has built this cliff-side 'super swing' which stands 30 storeys tall and faces a 2,300ft drop
[read more: buff.ly/3fgC3EY]
1096
Happy birthday to Linus Torvalds, creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel
[read more: buff.ly/3Z4zSa6]
1097
Where the terms 'uppercase' and 'lowercase' came from: from the early days of the printing press
[read more: buff.ly/2J5iUB6]
1098
Tamas Kalman owns and operates Octopus Kites, an online store that sells giant high-quality handmade, yes, octopus kites. Each kite is 15 meters long and amazing to watch
[read more: buff.ly/2LvOdX2]
[source of the gif: buff.ly/3dtEErW]
1099
Nikifor Ivanov, the gardener who grows a special breed of apples the size of pearls which can withstand the extreme weather conditions in Siberia
[read more: buff.ly/3ULqg0S]
1100
How the 12th century Paisley Abbey in Scotland could feature a gargoyle out of the film “Alien” [read more: ow.ly/Yf7f30nseRD]
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