1601
Humans aren’t the only animals that hum while they eat. This extensive study documents that gorillas compose happy songs they hum during meals
These are gorillas singing while eating
[full paper: buff.ly/2zgaIKZ]
[📹 buff.ly/3QiWtdQ]
1602
And a classic one to wish you all a Meʳʳʸ = x - mas
1603
The story of Felicia, the ferret who was hired to clean the Fermilab accelerator, running through the tubes with a cleanser-dipped swab attached and being rewarded with hamburger meat [read more: buff.ly/2SsApoc]
1604
In several parts of the planet, young girls still have to walk miles in the blazing heat everyday to collect water. The Water Wheel carries 5 times more water than a standard pail, requiring only one person per day to go to the well. Learn more: wellsonwheels.co.uk
1605
Genetics for (g)ummies
[source, Jacinta Bowler: buff.ly/3e0mDVa]
#SundayFunday
1606
Artist Sergi Cadenas realizes three-dimensional oil paintings which vary depending on the viewer’s perspective, introducing a kinetic, disturbingly suggestive dimension to our vision of reality
[more artworks: buff.ly/3itsmEJ]
1607
The Jastrow illusion typically involves two toy railway tracks (or similar shapes) where the lower one appears to be larger. However, both are identical in shape and size [read more: buff.ly/3m2tzyT]
1608
This is what installing 2 Petabytes (2048 Terabytes) of storage looks like.
There are 20 shelves with 12 HHDs each in the rack, for a total of 240 HDDs.
[source: buff.ly/3z1w5i9]
1609
Shibam is a town in Yemen with about 7,000 inhabitants. Being famous for its 400-year-old mudbrick-made high-rise buildings, it is referred to as the Chicago of the Desert [read more: buff.ly/2tSnwnL]
1610
Douin artist zsx_6666666 draws anamorphic art on the road, obtaining impressive 3D effects
[📹 more videos: buff.ly/3P5X9nv]
1611
These salmons cross a flooded road every year at the same location around five miles down the Skokomish River, in Washington State
[read more: buff.ly/3Jgc76N]
[📹 Terrence J Allison: buff.ly/3mwIWmf]
1612
A bridge girder machine drives the girder onto the previously placed one, slowly extends its arms to the next support platform, pushes the girder towards the front of the machine and then lowers it into place
[📹: buff.ly/3TZNAZ3]
1613
You can make a phonograph with a piece of paper and a needle
[more detailed video DIY: buff.ly/3XH3JEA]
1614
These tulips are giving new meaning to the term ‘flower beds’ – as tiny harvest mice curl up inside them, since they sleep inside, as these photos by Miles Herbert show
[author's site: captivelight.co.uk]
1615
Needlefish, like all ray-finned beloniforms, are capable of making short jumps out of the water at up to 60 km/h (37 mph)
[read more: buff.ly/2KJOggq]
1616
With a submerged displacement of 48,000 tons, Soviet Typhoons are the largest submarines ever built, able to accommodate comfortable living facilities for the crew when submerged for months. This is one seen along a beach in Severodvinsk in the White Sea buff.ly/2LYc41d
1617
This is a 3D HREM visualization by Richard Behringer of a human embryo in its fifth week
It has a fishlike appearance because humans & fish share some DNA & a common ancestor, not because we go though a “fish stage”
[read more: buff.ly/3bV5cV0]
1618
This video shows some interesting physics concepts: the levitation with compressed air obtained with the Coandă effect and Newton's third law of motion, plus the apple explosion triggered by the centrifugal force
[📹 Slow Mo Guys: buff.ly/3QGiHad]
1619
The air moving up a chimney works under the same physical principles as water flowing in a pipe. But air pressure is negative and chimneys are negative pressure systems: the hotter the fire, the biggest the draft
[read more: buff.ly/2ojR1zT]
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1620
This small canyon is called “The Seven Teacups” and can be found in the Eastern Sierras of Southern California: the high velocity of the water swirled the granite around, carving out the bottom of each so called pothole and making it deeper and deeper: buff.ly/2utvpDl
1621
The Parrot Toadstool is a small mushroom, with a convex to umbonate cap 1–3 centimetres (⅓–1 in) in diameter, which is green when young and later yellowish or even pinkish ting [read more: ow.ly/EbYA50AJSHi]
1622
Tampa Bay water receded ahead of Hurricane Ian. It's physics on a large scale: winds are swirling counter-clockwise as it moves northward along the peninsula, so its winds are whipping the water away from the shoreline [more: buff.ly/3E1VRWP]
1623
Iceland is an amazing land, where you can even happen to spot a nightsky split between the cold green of an aurora and the fiery red of a distant volcanic eruption, like in this impressive photo by Hörður Finnbogason
[source: buff.ly/2X5wj3i]
1624
The Impulse Fire Extinguishing System (abbreviated IFEX) is a series of firefighting equipment that uses small amounts of water fired in high velocity bursts to put out fires
[read more: buff.ly/2FMauvZ]
[source, OSP Krasiejów: buff.ly/2jz1sd3]
1625
These are the movements of bird populations spanning the entire year for 118 species throughout the Western Hemisphere [source: buff.ly/2pcAn0a]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links