1301
Estimates state that 7% of all young gators are eaten by larger cannibal alligators. This is what happened in Florida, where a great egret narrowly escaped after an alligator was ambushed by a much larger one
[📹 Travis Akers: buff.ly/3MShM5a]
1302
This square mile of water in the Lembeh Strait, Indonesia has some of the strangest and most unique marine life on the planet [source, full video by Shark Bay Film: vimeo.com/59168847]
1303
How sounds make their way from the source to your brain
[source, NIH, read more: buff.ly/3i2C4hB]
1304
In the rain forests of Borneo, a caterpillar builds a tent-like structure that enables it to eat out of the sight of predators by cutting a section of a leaf and folding it along its tiny natural hinges
[📹 BBC Earth: buff.ly/3U3ktEr]
1305
Despite the descriptions of penguins report that they have a 'short neck', they actually have a long neck, covered by fat. On the other hand, one of the etymology alternatives for penguin is the Latin word 'pinguis', which means 'fat' or 'oil' ow.ly/AzHI30nrNvB
1306
The story of Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the man who survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima. Despite the explosions left him temporarily blind and burned, he jumped on a train to Nagasaki, arriving just in time for the second bomb. He survived that one too buff.ly/3Mf4ek8
1307
A brilliant Möbius wind kinetic sculpture
[author, Zack Fresco: buff.ly/3s5OBlW]
[video: buff.ly/3naTreQ]
1308
How to identify that light in the sky
[source, HK (The League of Lost Causes): buff.ly/2jVLeNV]
1309
The Nokia n91 released in 2006 was the first ever phone encompassing a 4 GB internal hard drive, allowing storage for 3,000 songs
[read more: buff.ly/3e0asYt]
[📹: buff.ly/3roPw0f]
1310
This is what Soyuz astronauts see through their window upon a reentry in the atmosphere. The video was recorded by Mike Hopkins at the end of Expedition 38 in 2014 [source, read more: buff.ly/3pFHxfK]
1311
This 10 digits puzzle can be 3D printed and results in a nice numerical and geometrical satisfaction [3D print: buff.ly/2A0OKzg]
1312
Pictured here is one of the most striking images yet recorded of a waterspout, a type of tornado that occurs over water. It was taken by Joey Mole in July 2013 near Tampa Bay, Florida [source: buff.ly/2zIYgqA]
1313
This is possibly one of the most awesome pictures taken on the Moon: Jack Schmitt, (the only scientist who practiced geology on another world), with the US flag and the Earth (plus Gene Cernan reflected in his visor), 50 years ago #Today go.nasa.gov/2iU2AYp #Apollo17
1314
This is what a muffler for howitzers looks like. These photos were taken at an artillery range in Germany and the vehicle using the giant suppressor is an M109G 155mm self-propelled howitzer [read more: ow.ly/ViS850ApVho]
1315
How a simple, careful placement of leaves around a tree's roots makes it look like an unearthly glow [read more: buff.ly/2XGxJ9y]
1316
Graffiti artist paints his artworks on the walls of abandoned buildings around Europe, using techniques to create the impressive illusion of depth in his interventions.
In the one below, for example, only the door on the left is real
[more artworks: vilegraffiti.com]
1317
About 58 species of cuckoos are brood parasites. They lay eggs in the nest of other birds, hatching earlier than the host eggs, so the cuckoo chicks grow faster and evict the host's eggs and/or young
[📹 full video, Artur Homan: buff.ly/357GexV]
1318
This close up picture shows where a snake's venom comes from: the fangs of a rattlesnake (left) and a Gaboon viper (right)
[📷: Juan Alvarez, source: buff.ly/3qtxyt8]
1319
This infographic visualizes the difference between Euclidean, spherical and hyperbolic geometry
[source: buff.ly/3hHuy9j]
[read more: ow.ly/AO0630q1yht]
1320
In this video, YouTube's Brick Experiment Channel tests a Lego car against different obstacles and improving it until it becomes a capable climber [full video, HD: buff.ly/3x0U3rz-]
1321
Magnetically assisted gears work with no mechanical contact. The input shaft never touches the output shaft unless the gear box is overloaded
[video: buff.ly/3e8dqHB]
[read more: buff.ly/3vBVbQQ]
1322
Multiplying with lines
[read more: buff.ly/3gRwcHx]
[why it works: buff.ly/3VONNPc]
[📹 mrbeandamatematica: buff.ly/3XQO31E]
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1323
99.9999999% of all the matter we know, is empty space. If we lost all the dead space inside our atoms, we would each be able to fit into a particle of dust, and the entire human species would fit into the volume of a sugar cube [source: buff.ly/34qdw6x]
1324
Lumpsuckers' bodies are nearly spherical and the "sucker" part refers to the fish's modified pelvic fins, which have evolved into adhesive discs
[read more: buff.ly/2q10ngJ]
[📹 RUNCL Fishing: buff.ly/3qOAAqp]
1325
Iron Pyrite Nautilus specimen. They swam the Jurassic seas around 185 million years ago but autilus are still alive today, which is possibly the most striking aspect of all this
[📹: buff.ly/3UKfgR2]
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