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To prevent drying out in the hot sun of the dry season, the giant monkey frog secretes a form of organic ‘sun screen’ and applies it to its body
[source, full video, BBC: buff.ly/2lhLK6Q]
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This video created by British psychological professor Richard Wiseman demonstrates the power of perspective in creating illusions. It’s titled, “Assumptions”
[source, read more: buff.ly/2wbGWYY]
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VeinViewer allows physicians to see beneath a patients skin & helps take some of the pain away when getting a needle by projecting near-infrared light that's absorbed by the blood and rejected by the surrounding tissue [read more: buff.ly/3EmUum6]
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The number of finger joints on each hand (excluding the thumb) makes it possible to count to 12 by using the thumb. Egyptians and Babylonians were fond of counting in base twelve like this and this is why we have 24 hours in a day & 60 minutes in an hour ow.ly/H8jE30ndX0q
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Jupiter has 80 known moons in a wide range of sizes and shapes. This video compares their size using Manhattan, NYC and part of the New York state as a reference
[full video, HD, MetaBallStudios: buff.ly/3fPMm38]
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A demonstration of how the horizontal component of velocity remains constant
[explanation: ow.ly/2WX930oetjg]
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Chika Ofili, the 12 year old boy who devised a new formula to test a number for divisibility by 7
[read more: buff.ly/3d88y7s]
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One of the expressive styles of artist David Popa is creating portraits on small ice floats using only charcoal and water [read more: davidpopaart.com]
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This famous time-lapse video shows a storm captured by Geoff Green over West Australia in August 2018
[source, full video: buff.ly/2o6M21J]
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The most recent advanced.farm robotic apple harvester can pick ~30 apples in one minute
[read more: buff.ly/3DLnLXc]
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What do you see?
This is Wonder, a meditative moving sculpture whose aim is to show how everything is interconnected created by designer & inventor @tomlawton.
beuplifted.co.uk
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How old are tech companies (2023)?
TikTok: 7
Snapchat: 12
Uber: 14
Twitter: 17
Facebook: 19
Tesla: 20
Google: 25
Mozilla: 25
Netflix: 27
Amazon: 29
Apple: 47
Microsoft: 48
Intel: 55
HP: 84
IBM: 112
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The truth
[by Visualize Value: buff.ly/3R9MB5S]
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A non-Newtonian fluid is a fluid that does not follow Newton's law of viscosity, i.e. viscosity is not constant and it's a funtion of the stress applied.
[read more: buff.ly/3WnTSm5]
[📹 Bunnyy_slime: buff.ly/3PSQU6F]
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This photograph by Edsel James Batuigas shows how effective is the camouflage of a great grey owl [source and more pictures by the author: buff.ly/3MUUnyv]
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This sculpture of Franz Kafka's head created by artist David Černý in Prague weighs 45 tons and it's fully self-rotating
[source, full video: buff.ly/1USJQ7l]
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Ladybugs rely on elasticity to flap out their hind wings, which are 4 times the size of the ladybug itself. A ladybug is flapping these huge wings 85 times a second.
[read more: buff.ly/3GfRwjA]
[📹 Legendary Shots: buff.ly/3C2HLml]
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Mount Roraima and the other tabletop mountains in Canaima National Park are considered to be the oldest geological formations on Earth, dating back around two billion years to the Precambrian Era [read more: buff.ly/2Lyzfm1]
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Can you see the snake?
Leanne Cooke photographed a deadly venomous Stephen's Banded snake in Maitland, Australia and this is the shot.
[source: buff.ly/3TLo0H2]
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Finnish inventor Heikki Kärnä is the man behind the Vipukirves Leveraxe and his aim was to redesign the axe using simple principles of physics to make it more efficient and safer [read more: buff.ly/3rPiHr8] [video: buff.ly/3cN6eQo]
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This jaguar demonstrated the meaning of the term power, dragging this 8 ft long, armour plated, 74 toothed, chunk of contracting muscle out of the water. Jaguars are estimated to have the 5th strongest bite in the entire animal kingdom [source: buff.ly/2ubjlH4]
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This famous time-lapse video by Mitsuru Yasui might be cute & amusing, but it also shows that, while cats don't need sunlight to obtain vitamin D, it helps them regulate their body temperature: buff.ly/3xV04qn [full video: buff.ly/3G94Ao9]
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A Roman mosaic floor was recently discovered under a vineyard in northern Italy after decades of searching. Surveyors in the comune of Negrar di Valpolicella, north of Verona published images of the well-preserved tiles buried under metres of earth buff.ly/2yAf8PV
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Very few species have been observed imitating human behavior, but the list of observations has recently grown.
These two studies explore animals imitation of humans: buff.ly/3Ig68xP, buff.ly/33lQNN6
[📹: buff.ly/3qxuU6h]
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A 22° halo is an optical phenomenon created by ice crystals in the form of a ring with a radius of approximately 22° around the Sun or Moon. This one was spotted over Courchefull, Rhone-Alpes, France on February 8, 2018
[source: bit.ly/2BlUGkO]
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