1176
ABC3D by Marion Bataille is as much a work of art as it is a pop-up book. Each of the 26 three-dimensional letters move and change before your eyes
[more: buff.ly/3Z62GyI]
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This video illustrates how traditional rope is made: the process, visualized by the confraternity of San Pascual Bailón de Calatayud, patron saint of ropes, starts with smashing grass fibers and ends with the braiding phase: buff.ly/3uWTCO7
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Bat’s talons or back claws work opposite of most muscles. When they relax, special tendons lock the toes and talons in place. Muscular power is needed to let go, but not to grasp a perch or when holding on [read more: buff.ly/3qSr3jm] [source: buff.ly/3pYWVni]
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Fore-edge painting is typically a scene painted on the edge of book's pages. The earliest fore-edge paintings date as far back as the 10th century
[read more: buff.ly/3KU7XRL]
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We steadily "dry out" as we age. A newborn human baby is 75 percent water, adult men are about 60 percent, adult women 55 percent, and elderly people are roughly half [read more: buff.ly/2FmXwVf]
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Photographer Jessie Williams caught a glimpse of the impressive similarity between a young orangutan's hand a human hand in this awesome photo [source and author's site: buff.ly/2GIcL0g]
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Part of an overview of human history, this animation made with Blender shows how humans spread across the globe and their migration paths
[full video, History: In Context: buff.ly/3zEk5Cz]
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Where symmetry and geometry meet art and nature: how artist James Brunt artworks use leaves organized in elaborate patterns jamesbruntartist.co.uk
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Reindeer cyclones are real, and you definitely don't want to get caught in one
[📹️PBS Nature/Maramedia. Read more: buff.ly/2XdQWum-]
1185
A rigorously geometric method to obtain some billiard shots.
[WMNTQJX (Douyin): buff.ly/3GRL8Qw]
1186
Artist Markos Kay's “aBiogenesis” reimagines the origin of life in a rendering of the lipid world hypothesis: the first self-replicating, cell-like objects were composed of of fatty acids that could not dissolve in water
[video: buff.ly/3IugWMb]
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Things aren’t always what they seem on the surface. 12,000 years ago Britain was connected to Europe until a tsunami from a submarine landslide off Norway inundated whatever remained of #Doggerland bit.ly/2zCZRdo [read more: ow.ly/8lng30nkkdR]
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Artist Guillaume Legros paints on grass and mostly on hill & mountain sides: he has to wait for sunny days, but when this happens, slopes become immense artworks. And his paint is safe for the environment
[read more: buff.ly/3Reo4ND]
1189
The dynamic measured wake of a Tawny Owl. Tracked soap bubbles reveal the movement of the air behind a Tawny Owl showing wingtip and tail vortices [full paper: buff.ly/3GX22uA] [video: buff.ly/3k9Terx]
1190
The strange story of this unusual train line in Baku, Azerbaijan, crossing a 7 lane motorway
[video, explanation: buff.ly/3W07B2E]
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There's a dive site hidden in the heart of Slovakia with miles of flooded excavated tunnels. It's an opal mine where you can find otherwordly scene like this, with submerged ladders, tracks, and construction equipment
[read more, photos: buff.ly/3tSiDYQ]
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20 years ago #Today, a strange object designated J002E3 was discovered. It was in a temporary orbit around the Earth. It turned out to be an Apollo 12 rocket stage launched in 1969 that had returned [read more: buff.ly/2NIA6yu]
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Smart-X conductive thread visualizes how we are all connected with Connecting Thoughts, a promotional video for Japanese infrastructure company Kandenko
[video, HD: buff.ly/3Vv3zze]
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The laughing kookaburra is known as the “bushman’s alarm clock” because it has a very loud call, usually performed by a family group at dawn and dusk, that sounds like a variety of trills, chortles, belly laughs, and hoots [source: buff.ly/3qQ25CU-]
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Betsy is a black and white longhaired Border Collie, credited with being one of the world's most intelligent dogs. She has a vocabulary of more than 340 words, which rivals that of the great apes in terms of intelligence and lateral thinking [read more: ow.ly/2DaM30n5Vex]
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If enough speed is built up in the water, an African butterflyfish can jump and glide a small distance above the surface. These are three young specimens
[read more: buff.ly/3mAqt8t]
[source, full clip: buff.ly/30ZMpCl]
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Waves reflecting underwater produce a caustic network: the envelope of light rays reflected or refracted by the sea surface, or the projection of that envelope of rays on the sea floor [read more: bit.ly/2CiZupq] [clip by Nolan Omura]
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How a homemade levee saved an Arkansas home during a Mississippi flood in May 2011 [source: buff.ly/2XCJOtL]
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Elephants rarely get cancer because they have extra copies of two cancer-fighting genes, P53, which hunts for cells with miscopied DNA, and LIF6, which obliterates the mutated cells before they can form a tumor ow.ly/otuL50AoRZP [full paper: ow.ly/Wqqh50AoRZR]
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Does the Sun always rise in the same direction? No. This composite image by Luca Vanzella shows the direction of sunrise every month during 2021 as seen from the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
[source, read more: buff.ly/3FWl9Ef]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links