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High diving is the act of diving into water from relatively great heights. Rick Charls succeded in diving 52.4 m at Sea World on the show Wide World of Sports, 1983. Apparently, no one has ever jumped this high without injury buff.ly/2yWdyrc
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This periodic table by Jennifer Johnson is color coded to indicate humanity's best guess as to the nuclear origin of all known elements
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The Singing Ringing Tree is a wind powered sound sculpture resembling a tree set in the landscape of the Pennine hill range overlooking Burnley, in Lancashire, England. When the wind blows, it produces a slightly discordant and penetrating choral sound ow.ly/LdGk50obHqt
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Tokyo startup Telexistence has recently unveiled a new robot called the Model-T, an advanced teleoperated humanoid that can use tools and grasp a wide range of objects. In this trial, a human “pilot” operates the robot remotely, handling store items buff.ly/32IV74O
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This robot can win rock-paper-scissors 100% of the time thanks to high speed recognition of high speed vision
[source, Ishikawa Group Laboratory: buff.ly/2tBTFQ9]
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Ultra-high-pressure water pumps operating water jet cutters are available from as low as 40,000 psi (280 MPa) up to 100,000 psi (690 MPa). This video by Cut in Half, shows a padlock being cut by a water jet
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Morpho peleides hatching, showing off its brilliant blue color, caused by the diffraction of the light from millions of tiny scales on its wings
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Scorpio is a robot that can assist to automate in the security patrolling process. This robot can be operated in remote controlled and autonomous modes
[video: buff.ly/3PAdFfs]
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A quite alternative way of typing on a keyboard
[📹 rileyandrichy: buff.ly/3Yuw3L1]
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In the past 10 years, Japan has moved at a tremendous pace to install elevators at subway and train stations for the disabled and the elderly. These wheelchair accessible elevators are unique to Japan
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The strawberry is not, from a botanical point of view, a berry. Each apparent "seed" (achene) on the outside of the fruit is actually one of the ovaries of the flower, with a seed inside it.
[📹 microworldexplorer: buff.ly/3hwG7CG]
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The attractive bumblebee orchid or ophrys bombyliflora flowers grow in Canary Islands, Turkey and Lebanon. The large sepals, small bronze colored petals and brownish lip of this unusual flower resemble an attractive (laughing) female bee
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Mossy leaf-tailed geckos are nocturnal and arboreal. These geckos rely on their impressive camouflage as they dwell among the trees.
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Simas Snežko built a mechanical model of a car out of wood. And it's not just some pistons moving up and down in a drilled-out block of wood—the model is a V8 with a working transmission, a differential and a clutch
[read more: buff.ly/3sI66aE]
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The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake triggered a tsunami wave that reached heights of up to 40.5 meters, traveling at sea at a maximum speed of 700 km/h. This video shows its devastating speed and power
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Crops under solar panels can be a win-win, and in dry places, photovoltaic shade can even reduce water use, suggests a recent study. Cherry tomatoes saw a 65% increase in CO₂ uptake, a 65% increase in water-use efficiency, and produced twice as much fruit buff.ly/2ZQCdW8
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Lamproderma muscorum first appears as a white ooze emerging out of a log. Within days the ooze starts to turn into small ‘beads’. Eventually they get pinkish with intense iridescence at torch light
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[📷 Sarah Lloyd: buff.ly/3WtXPpg]
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Loading a standard Renaissance crossbow vs loading a Leonardo da Vinci's Rapid Fire Crossbow
[source, read more: buff.ly/3HKHSXr]
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An arc of a circle with the same length as the radius of that circle subtends an angle of 1 radian. The circumference subtends an angle of 2π radians.
[source, read more: buff.ly/2E0ton2]
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Do you know the names of some of the brightest stars? Featured here in true color are the 25 brightest stars in the night sky, currently as seen by humans, coupled with their IAU-recognized names
[Tragoolchitr Jittasaiyapan: buff.ly/3YryGgJ]
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#Today in 1888, the Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde, Colorado, was rediscovered by rancher Richard Wetherill. In the 1200s, the Anasazi, an ancient pueblo people, built 150 rooms and 23 large, round kivas within a large rock shelter, high on a cliff buff.ly/3G15Axh
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Filmed at 700fps, we notice the iris' fluids inertia cause the iris to wiggle after the eyeball has stopped moving
[📹 The Slow Mo Guys: buff.ly/2tAxKuZ]
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In the early 1950s, trademarks like General Chef L/K designed and sold this peculiar sink/fridge/stove combo
[more pictures: buff.ly/3PDACPe]
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Raphael Zufferey developed a robotic bird, which has a 1.5 meter wingspan and weighs 700 grams, that can use a claw to perch on a branch in the lab after a short flight.
[video: buff.ly/3GacCQF]
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The Mexican mole lizard could pass for a slender, pink lizard. But the reptile doesn't have any hind legs. His lizard-on-top, worm-on-the-bottom creature appears to be a sort of serpentine centaur
[read more: buff.ly/3V5CMbe]
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