1126
The fruit Monstera Deliciosa causes severe throat & skin irritation due to oxalic acid unless 100% ripe. Once the green outer scales fall off it's safe to eat and tastes like a mix of pineapple, banana & coconut. Its name literally means Delicious Monster ow.ly/Wz4J30nAIni
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Morpho rhetenor is a Neotropical butterfly of the family Nymphalidae: it's sexually dimorphic and while the female is dark-brown, the male's wings are impressively bright blue. This short clip by biologist Joseph See neatly shows it [more on Joseph's IG: buff.ly/2APa6zM]
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When scientists put slime mold over a map of Tokyo, with food used to represent urban areas, and after a day the mold created a network nearly identical to Tokyo's rail network: all this without any brain
[read more: ow.ly/7CA730o4Sjk]
1129
The rock ptarmigan is seasonally camouflaged and emits a repertoire of guttural snores and rattles, most often directed to other males during breeding season
[read more: buff.ly/3VrHUGS]
[📹 Tolkuton: buff.ly/3I0cHaT]
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A great visualization of how a radial engine works in this Pratt & Whitney R-985 cut-away by Skip Stewart
[source: buff.ly/3g32XAr]
[read more: ow.ly/1VAv50kVlYA]
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This is a real photo of a male seahorse
[read more: buff.ly/3VvVAS1]
[📷 Nick More, Scuba Seraya, Bali: buff.ly/3VRaPVh]
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Kirie is the Japanese art of paper-cutting. A negative space is cut from a single sheet of white paper and then contrasted against a black background to reveal a rendering. Veteran kirie artist Masayo Fukuda has been practicing the art form for 25 years ow.ly/GI9w30n8uL3
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Lightning can assume various shapes. This is possibly one of the most stunning, in a picture by Jean-Yves Villa captured in 2016
[source, HD: buff.ly/3EO5DfK]
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The Blunt-headed Burrowing Frog (Glyphoglossus molossus), alo known as balloon frog, is found in south east Asia and lives in tropical seasonal forests, moist savanna, intermittent freshwater marshes
[read more: buff.ly/39aIrHi]
[📷 koshin0919: buff.ly/2KgkR3c]
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This is a clever variant of the Café wall illusion with an illusory motion addition by @AkiyoshiKitaoka: these rows are perfectly horizontal, and, they are not moving [read more: buff.ly/2KzUL6L]
1136
Female lovebirds build their own nest from many materials, their favorite is palm leaves veins, which they tuck into their rump feathers for transporting them more efficiently [read more: buff.ly/3C4Z57F-] [source: buff.ly/3qrFAUE-]
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Nowadays, Disney is one of the biggest companies in the entertainment industry, but in the middle of the 20th century, the studio didn’t have an army of illustrators to draw unique pictures every time so, they reused animations: buff.ly/3ARRMm4
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Everyone knows Leonardo's Mona Lisa very well, but most of the people may have missed that he wasn't the only one who painted her: one of his students painted this version, currently on display at the Prado museum in Madrid in far better conditions ow.ly/X0V430na6TQ
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«The Black Hole» is an international prize winner short film directed by Olly Williams and Phil Sansom that offers a portrait of temptation and greed from a genuinely sci-fi point of view
[video, HD: buff.ly/3Euc9YF]
1140
Strong explosions accompanied by volcanic lightning were registered at Sakurajima volcano, Japan at 10:30 UTC on December 3, 2022, suring a new eruption that sent volcanic ash at 1.8 km (6 000 feet) above sea level.
[read more: buff.ly/3utUavz]
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The moment in which surfer Sebastian Steudtner rode a 35 meter (115 feet) tall wave at Nazaré, Portugal on January 18, 2018
[full video, HD: buff.ly/2PBDUqP]
[why the waves at Nazaré are so tall: buff.ly/3jsANxA]
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The AquaDom in Berlin, Germany, is a 25 m (82 ft) tall cylindrical acrylic glass aquarium with built-in transparent elevator. It is located inside the Radisson Blu Hotel in the DomAquarée complex and it contains over 1,500 fish of 50 species [read more: buff.ly/2OK38mQ]
1143
Artist Timur Zagirov has created a beautiful rendition of Van Gogh’s famous self portrait, using 425 polished, colored wooden blocks of pine. The curious thing about it, is that you see a Van Gogh only if you squint or you look at it from afar [source: buff.ly/37edj9o]
1144
Civita di Bagnoregio was founded by the Etruscans more than 2,500 years ago. Due to its unstable foundation that often erodes, Civita is famously known as "the dying city".
[read more: buff.ly/2ZhdOwq]
[📹 manutoni24: buff.ly/3VzUQus]
1145
This video is a demonstration that the horizontal component of velocity in a projectile motion remains constant
[full video: buff.ly/2R7VbED]
[explanation: buff.ly/3jrruRJ]
1146
The story of Hisako Koyama, the solar observer who hand drew more than 10,000 solar sketches for more than 40 years. Her work was one of the most influential solar observation collections in the last 400 years, shaping solar science & modern space weather buff.ly/3siY4qZ
1147
Presented at CES 2022, Engineered Arts’ Ameca humanoid robot has been designed as a platform for development into future robotics technologies with a modular architecture, which allows upgrades without redesigning the entire robot: buff.ly/3ojvm7i
1148
On the left, the night sky is lit up by particles expelled from the Sun that later collided with Earth's upper atmosphere creating bright auroras. On the right, the night glows with ground lights reflected by millions of tiny ice crystals [📷Alex Correia: buff.ly/3Jc9Bhb]
1149
Water waves motion is a combination of both longitudinal & transverse motions. As a wave moves through water, the particles travel in clockwise circles. The radius of the circles decreases as the depth into the water increases [source, gif by Dan Russell: buff.ly/3buXf5N]
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Designed at Harvard, this mesmerizing reconfigurable metamaterial could represent the future of design engineering
[source, full video: buff.ly/2K3b23G]
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