1451
The Fibonacci sequence is fundamental to life on Earth, but goes much beyond our own world; the spiral that exists in the center of sunflowers, heads of cabbage and chambered nautilus shells is the same that shapes galaxies and the orbits of Earth & Venus buff.ly/33V4Jsp
1452
This wonderful image captured by Greg Robertson when mustering in far north western New South Wales shows the intricate patterns created by the tracks of a dingo running across water in a clay pan
[source: buff.ly/2u6ctHq]
1453
The story of Norman Borlaug, man who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work developing “semi-dwarf, high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties” and is credited with saving over a billion people from starvation
[read more: buff.ly/2IvPbnJ]
1454
Dubbed as the highway above the clouds, the Tianlongshan Highway is located in Shanxi Province, Northern China. Its elevation gain is 350 m. It’s equivalent to a 116 floor building with a 3-meter story height
[📹and read more: buff.ly/3Holtis]
1455
In 1862 Charles Darwin received a flower from Madagascar with the nectar located in an extremely deep crevasse. He predicted the existence of a moth with an extraordinarily long tongue to reach the nectar. Xanthopan morganii was discovered 150 years later ow.ly/3hmm50B6Brz
1456
After chasing a severe storm across the Kansas plains for several hours, photographer Mitch Dobrowner was rewarded with this shot of upside-down clouds growing down and cascading across the sky [source, read more: buff.ly/2cOsWHF]
1457
Ever wondered why you wake up even when the alarm clock isn't making jarring noises? Your body has a protein called PER that determines when you wake up. You may wake up X minutes before the alarm, to prepare your body for the stress caused by the alarm ow.ly/s4nw30o8Ioc
1458
Dujiangyan Zhongshuge is a bookstore located in Chengdu, China. Designed by architecture firm X+Living, it's a two-story space which looks like an M.C. Escher-like artwork, thanks to the mirrored ceilings and gleaming black tile floors
[read more: buff.ly/34vqCRP]
1459
This is a coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a red blood cell (erythrocyte) squeezing through a capillary. This is where the oxygen-exchange with the surrounding tissues happens. Magnification: x9000 [source: buff.ly/2pkUVFT]
1460
This is a giant 50-meter deep 'crater' opens up in Arctic tundra. The recently-formed new hole or funnel is just one of the latest to be seen in northern Siberia since the phenomenon was first registered in 2014 [read more: buff.ly/2YKPAcY]
1461
Why do people often stick their tongue out when they are concentrating on something? It turns out much of your brain is devoted to your tongue and sticking it out or biting it leaves more brain-power available to concentrate
[source: ow.ly/pUSQ30nOIs7]
1462
In 1960, David Latimer put some compost, water, and plant seeds into a large glass jar and sealed it up. And it’s been growing like that ever since, thriving in its own, self-contained ecosystem, save for when Latimer opened the bottle to water it in 1972 buff.ly/2UcQJ8y
1463
If the taste of kale makes you screw up your face, you are not alone: researchers have observed foetuses pull a crying expression when exposed to the greens in the womb: twice as likely for kale than carrot [read more: buff.ly/3qVPFIq]
1464
This comparison between a shark's brain and a dolphin's brain, shows why dolphins are deep thinkers [source of the photo: buff.ly/3Phrmy9]
1465
Despite their extremely futuristic appearance, skeletonics extend the movement of a humans arms and legs without the aid of any motor and it's not powered by electricity
[source, full video: buff.ly/300Pcdw]
[read more: skeletonics-us.com]
1466
Calculation of π, from rain falling on two wooden plate sensors, one circular and one square: the number of raindrops that landed on each plate during a storm was counted with an Arduino and π was calculated as the ratio [source & credits: buff.ly/2Dqy0gN]
1467
This is among the most powerful single fireworks ever exploded with a single shell and it was launched in Malta in September 2016
[full video by Janet Reed: buff.ly/2LfBmYh]
1468
Orcas are so smart that they swim sideways while hunting seals, in order to hide their dorsal fins: this is a pod of orcas sneakily swimming along a beach in Patagonia [source, full video by George R. Gaitanos: ow.ly/qVGP30no1Zt]
1469
You may not know that the derivatives of the position vector (x) with respect to time have interesting names:
Velocity (v) = dx/dt
Acceleration (a) = d²x/dt²
Jerk (j) = d³x/dt³
Snap (s) = d⁴x/dt⁴
Crackle (c) = d⁵x/dt⁵
Pop (p) = d⁶x/dt⁶
[source: buff.ly/3bLn29h]
1470
While many of them already belong to our past, this visual guide to computer ports and their functions can still be a nice reading
[source, read more at recompute.co.zw: buff.ly/3EHgmoM]
1471
A closed wing is a wing that effectively has two main planes which merge at their ends so that there are no conventional wing tips. This video by Anderson Rayner shows a test of annular wing [read more: buff.ly/3sUGAyj] [full video: buff.ly/3qo79dR]
1472
Chris Kunzmann makes creatures, puppets, animatronics and monsters since 1989 with his company Chris Creatures based in Berlin. This is one of his creations
[Instagram: buff.ly/3wAkqWl]
1473
Born in 1954, Chris Evans is one of the artists who created matte paintings for many iconic movies. This is how he fooled us in the original Star Wars trilogy (and in other movies) [read more: buff.ly/3sO1aAC]
1474
The story of Elizabeth Jane Cochrane (aka Nellie Bly), the journalist that wanted to recreate in real life the famous novel "Around the world in 80 days". She succeded with eight days to spare and met Jules Verne to interview him
[read more: buff.ly/3HkYVf2]
1475
Cube watermelons were intended to fit more compactly in fridges and be able to be cut more easily (without rolling). They were invented by graphic designer Tomoyuki Ono in 1978 by growing them into boxes and taking the shape of the container
[video: buff.ly/3i1OeCd]
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