1826
Janusz Ronki is a video creator and video-effects artist who’s racked up tens of thousands of views on Instagram for his mind-bending VFX artistry.
[more videos: buff.ly/3PVikZX]
1827
This is a shape-shifting wheel-track mechanism that transition from a round wheel to a triangular track and back again while the vehicle is on the move, for instant improvements to tactical mobility
[video: buff.ly/2tmCbrB]
1828
This algorithm can reconstruct an audio by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in a video. In this experiment, intelligible speech was recovered from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag photographed from 15 feet away through soundproof glass ow.ly/SIdV30n37Hg
1829
The green vine snake is viviparous, giving birth to young that grow within the body of the mother, enclosed within the egg membrane. This is a handful of green vine snakes
[📹Christopher Dickey: buff.ly/3TQP9Zh]
1830
Digital effects are no match for designer Tomohiro Okazaki: this animation uses stop-motion techniques to animate paint, strips paper, and other household objects under the matchsticks' control
[YT: buff.ly/3ipcHGL]
[IG: buff.ly/3X7Wy85]
1831
The unexpected behavior of the origami karakuri puppets by Haruki Nakamura
[read more: ow.ly/fq8w30ob0X4]
1832
In image processing, one of the elements you see in the clip is called a 'gabor'. Configurations of drifting gabors that are stationary, can give rise to dramatic global motion percepts. This is the 2016 winner of the Best Illusion of the Year contest: buff.ly/2QGIkxj
1833
Attracting hummingbirds is even more fun when you find a hummingbird nest and discover that their eggs don't reach 1.5 cm in length [read more: buff.ly/2JJ6JdU]
1834
Scotland is hardly visible from space due to clouds. This is a rare photograph of the Scottish Highlands captured on February 25, 2018 from the International Space Station [details and tags: buff.ly/2HEUnoL]
1835
Cownose rays typically swim in groups so that their synchronized wing flaps stir up sediment exposing buried clams and oysters, but this unusual 'spiral' captured by Alex Kydd in 2020 results very rarely observed [source: buff.ly/3HpoOLN]
1836
Stargazer fish's usual habit is to bury themselves in sand, and leap upwards to ambush prey that pass overhead. This shot was captured by diver Will Soo earlier this year in the bay of Blairgowrie Pier, Melbourne, Australia [read more: buff.ly/2MMQ5P6]
1837
When National Geographic launched a Pixar style 16′ x 16′ house 18′ tall with 300 8′ colored weather balloons and set a new world record for the largest balloon cluster flight ever attempted [read more: buff.ly/2FFHupt]
1838
«There is something unspeakably sinister about a machine that does nothing—absolutely nothing—except switch itself off» —Arthur C. Clarke [buff.ly/3u2JUYn]
This version of the Useless Machine was made by Ridiculous Robots [full video: buff.ly/2yCty16]
1839
This video shows a white blood cell chasing and eating a bacterium. To be more specific: the video shows a neutrophil chasing a staphylococcus aureus during phagocytosis process
[📹David Rogers: buff.ly/3FOyQY9]
1840
At Mount Fanjing, Guizhou province, China, two temples sit atop a lonely spire called the Red Clouds Golden Summit, rising more than 100 meters above the surrounding mountaintop
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1841
Prepare to think
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1842
Few lines are enough to see Jack Torrance. It's called stationary slit vision.
[read more, by @AkiyoshiKitaoka: buff.ly/343VxYb]
1843
Most of the blue-streaked lory's general plumage is bright red. Against this intense red background, there are scattered electric blue feathers near the ears and on the nape of the neck, which is where the bird gets its name [read more: buff.ly/2L5gmUU]
1844
A crosswind landing is a landing maneuver in which a significant component of the prevailing wind is perpendicular to the runway center line. This is an A380
[read more: buff.ly/3VIi6Yb]
[📹 SDTV Live: buff.ly/3BkKqHC]
1845
The claws of an African lion are retractible and very sharp and can reach 38 mm of length (1 1/2 inches) [read more: bit.ly/2wouumV]
1846
These are the oldest masks known, discovered in Israel on the Judean Hills. They were made in the Neolithic era, about 9,000 years ago
[read more: buff.ly/3C2DJaR]
1847
Capybaras are semiaquatic mammals and are superb swimmers, capable of holding their breath underwater for up to 5 minutes at a time. This clip by Fernando Maydana shows a capybara like you've probably never seen before buff.ly/3j5Q4Tg [full video: buff.ly/38WgceS]
1848
Kawachi Fuji Garden in Japan, is home to an incredible 150 Wisteria flowering plants spanning 20 different species. The garden’s main attraction is the Wisteria tunnel that allows visitors to walk down an enchanting tunnel exploding with colour [source: buff.ly/12qUhav]
1849
This is what the inside of a musical instrument looks like [source, read more: bit.ly/1F13nZW]
1850
Plants do actually move: we just don't live in the same time reference frame. This 2-day time lapse shows the so called plant's nastic movements, mostly due to changes in turgor or changes in growth buff.ly/30a2rqp [source: buff.ly/3HBFC1o]
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