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53 years ago #Today, the nascent #ARPANET grew to four nodes when ARPA connected computer network nodes at four universities. This is the chart of all the Internet at the end of 1969 bit.ly/2iTcUn3
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The story of William Dampier, pirate, explorer and naturalist. He circumnavigated the world 3 times studying zoology, botany and the ocean: landed in Australia 80 years before James Cook, and influenced Darwin’s thinking on the mutation of species buff.ly/2uBhKYA
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70 years ago #Today, a dense smog descended on London, England, that would last four days, causing at least 4,000 deaths and chaos for transportation as visibility was reduced to a few hundred yards bit.ly/2AVIVBW
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This is a real photo of a male seahorse
[read more: buff.ly/3VvVAS1]
[📷 Nick More, Scuba Seraya, Bali: buff.ly/3VRaPVh]
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Using long exposure photography and a custom built lighting rig covered in colored gels, Daniel Mercadante created what he calls Rainbow Roads
[read more: buff.ly/2Jw61Ds]
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It never gets old. When a helicopter's propeller is perfectly synced with the camera frame rate, the result is always astounding
[why it happens: buff.ly/34ZNsl5]
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Static electricity
It requires a separation of positive and negative charges, often obtained by rubbing different materials together
[📹 buff.ly/3P05wAE]
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Biologists long believed lions band together to hunt prey. But Craig Packer has found that's not the main reason they team up. The lions’ behavior, communities, evolution, are shaped by one brutal force, what Packer calls “the dreadful enemy": other lions ow.ly/Xtxq30nYV1J
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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]
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These cape lappet caterpillars respond to human voice and noise.
[📹 Overberg Renosterveld Conservation Trust: buff.ly/3iAR9a3]
[read more: buff.ly/3vN5LHb]
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Whale shark eating
[whale sharks' diet: buff.ly/2LHYCCd]
[📹 BBC America: buff.ly/3W5GG55]
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The triple point occurs where the solid, liquid, and gas transition curves meet. It's the only condition in which all three phases can coexist, and is unique for every material. Water reaches it at 0.01° C and at a pressure of 0.006 atm
[📹UCSC Physics: buff.ly/2OMrpoC]
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Have you ever wondered how music was typed before computers? With music typewriters
[read more: buff.ly/3B7bj1O]
[📹 pbuttner, illustrating a rare 1953 music typewriter: buff.ly/3KqkVIb]
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In the province of East Java, Indonesia, the gigantic Kawah Ijen volcanic complex stretches over 22 km. But it is more known for its "blue lava", arising from the burning of sulphur released from the earth
[source, read more: buff.ly/3is9yWl]
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«All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star-stuff»
—Carl Sagan
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There's an endemic Mexican maize (Sierra Mixe) that has aerial roots using bacterial colonies to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere
[read more: buff.ly/3VI8dZU]
[📷 A. Van Deynze]
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The Inca road system was the most extensive and advanced transportation system in pre-Columbian South America. It was at least 40,000 kilometres long (25,000 mi). Only 25% of the system remains visible today
[read more: ow.ly/t3ai50xn60g]
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How fast are you spinning around Earth's axis? This chart shows you the rotation velocity as a function of latitude bit.ly/2ioM0CR [source of the chart: buff.ly/2R2iulB]
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In 1995, 14 wolves were released in Yellowstone National Park. No one expected the miracle that the wolves would bring
[video, HD: buff.ly/3C69xyG]
[read more: buff.ly/3dETKh3]
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How your food travels
[📹 Keith Siau: buff.ly/3Fp5Q8U]
[read more: buff.ly/3HfWGgi]
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A vertical wind tunnel (VWT) is a wind tunnel that moves air up in a vertical column. Its vertical orientation enables gravity to be countered by drag instead of lift, as experienced by a skydiver at terminal velocity.
[📹 buff.ly/3uk8iY7]
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There is an inland island in Canada that is larger in area than the lake in which it is situated
[read more: bit.ly/2zBqpLJ]
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This snow leopard was filmed a few years ago in the Himalayas by Prasenjeet Yadav. The internsity of the expression on his face and his eyes are a unique documentation of observation in the wild.
[source, read more: buff.ly/3FnJ3dP]
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See this? It's a spider that pretends to be an ant and mimics the antennae with its front legs. The phenomenon is called myrmecomorphy and there are two reasons why a spider would want to mimic an ant: to eat them, and to avoid being eaten by them ow.ly/9JsM30nZtEc
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Architecto is a real challenge with more than 900 pieces to assemble in order to then solve the enigma which requires 116 movements
[📹 The_Puzzle_Guy: buff.ly/3B9XXSn]
[more: buff.ly/3B5cVZQ]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links