1251
This Geologic Time Scale drawn by Ray Troll shows how life has evolved and changed over the eons of time, giving each period a distinct group of fossils that can be recognized worldwide [source: ow.ly/FAGA50AohbE]
1252
The spectacular sight of mountain goats defying gravity on a vertical dam wall in Italy, and all because they have a craving for some of Earth's elements essential to life
[full video by BBC with @ProfBrianCox: buff.ly/3sHnxry]
1253
TerraLiving is a bio-architecture inspired design lab in Malaysia that creates customizable terrariums which showcase moss in a small living ecosystem suitable for everyone's desktop
[read more: theterraliving.com]
1254
The parking assist feature on modern cars might seem like a recent innovation, but if Brooks Walker had his way we would have been using it since the 1930s
[source, read more: buff.ly/3ErlD3l]
1255
Ranakpur Jain temple in Ranakpur, India is a grand white marble structure spread over 4,500 m2 with 1444 marble pillars carved in exquisite detail, twenty-nine halls, eighty domes and 426 columns [📷 Sabhi Khan, read more: buff.ly/2B8b0aJ]
1256
Crabeater seals share teeth adaptations including lobes and cusps useful for straining smaller prey items out of the water column [source, read more: buff.ly/2K3fZty]
1257
Just Room Enough Island lies on the Saint Lawrence River between Heart Island and Imperial Isle, close to the US border with Canada. It is known for being the smallest inhabited island, which appears to be around 3,300 square feet (310 m²)
[read more: buff.ly/3FaiE1E]
1258
This is still one of the most impressive time lapse videos of a SpaceX Falcon 9 first-stage landing: this happened after the rocket boosted the THAICOM-8 satellite into space on May 30, 2016 [video is sped up, source: bit.ly/1qQNIem]
1259
An Eiffel Tower model made with extremely high accuracy by a 5 axis CNC machine
[source, full video, Hermle: buff.ly/3I29BD7]
1260
These excerpts from a 1980 documentary about Czech animator Karel Zeman show how some of Karel’s special effects were achieved in the movies he made between 1947 and 1980
[full video + read more: buff.ly/3LAKWnn]
1261
This is the famous design of an ambiguous object illusion by Kokichi Sugihara, the inventor of this art form. A clever combination of reflection, perspective, and viewing angle produce this striking illusion buff.ly/2P6DEMy [explanation: ow.ly/lSY830nmncA]
1262
Ruyi Bridge is a footbridge in Taizhou, Zhejiang China, made up of three bridges. It is a pedestrian bridge which was built to cross the Shenxianju Valley and it features a glass-bottomed walkway
[read more: buff.ly/3EZsRzM]
1263
This is the longest (theoretical) single uninterrupted train journey possible on Earth. Starting from the Portuguese coast, one can travel by train not just into China but all the way to southern Vietnam, a distance of 17,000 km (10,566 mi)
[read HERE: ow.ly/Nmnx50xqY28]
1264
«Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking»
— Carl Sagan
Last interview with Charlie Rose, May 27, 1996
[full interview: buff.ly/3BaU4f0]
1265
How you make a spray-on dress.
The spray used by Coperni for Bella Hadid's dress, is made up of Torres' Fabrican liquid that contains fibers suspended in a polymer solution, evaporating upon contact with the body
[read more: buff.ly/3E7zrn8]
1266
This is a coloured scanning electron micrograph of a sweat gland pore opening onto the surface of a human palm. Sweat pores bring sweat from a sweat gland to the skin surface. The sweat evaporates, removing heat and playing a vital role in cooling the body buff.ly/2qXFMOC
1267
The story of astronauts Mark Lee and Jan Davis, who married in secret 9 months before their joint flight on mission STS-47 & didn't tell NASA until it was too late to train replacements. They are the only married couple to have ever flown in space together buff.ly/2CME3BZ
1268
log(😅) =💧log(😄)
#MathMonday
#MotivationMonday
1269
This otherwordly view is not a city in the clouds: it's Chicago reflected in Lake Michigan captured by photographer Mark Hersch in 2014 on an airplane on approach to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport [source, read more: buff.ly/2Kirxs1]
1270
Where snow meets the sea
Taken on the western coast of Japan in the San’in Kaigan GeoPark by photographer Hisatoshi Matsumura, this is a beautiful photo that shows where biomes collide
[site: hisatoshimatsumura.com]
[source: buff.ly/3XXTR9M]
1271
Rubber tapping is the process by which latex is collected from a rubber tree. It is not damaging to the forest, as it doesn't require the tree to be cut down
[read more: buff.ly/3I7FCcO]
[📹 kimman995: buff.ly/3WqOQFx]
1272
Graffiti artist Vile leaves his mark on the walls of occupied and abandoned buildings around Europe, using masterful techniques to create the illusion of depth in his painted interventions [more artworks: buff.ly/2AbWriS]
1273
Of the different species of armadillos, only the South American three-banded armadillos heavily rely on their armour for protection. When threatened by a predator, Tolypeutes species frequently roll up into a ball
[read more: buff.ly/2lvfYUc]
1274
Another way to show the Mercator projection's distortions on a planisphere, is to consider that every circle on this map has the same 500 mile radius
[source, credits and more: ow.ly/VAyJ50Ach4L]
1275
Watch the moment the Kham Lha herd runs to a reunion with Darrick Thompson, who operates an elephant sanctuary in Chiang Mai province, Thailand, after 14 months
#ElephantsNeverForget: buff.ly/2FHKthn
[📹 elephantnews: buff.ly/3H4wBxw]
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