1101
Pastry artist Dinara Kasko creates edible cakes that are inspired by geometry, architecture, sculpture, and technology, using the Grasshopper graphical algorithm editor and a 3D printer to realize silicone cake molds
[site: dinarakasko.com]
1102
A violin bow creates beautiful geometric figures from thin air. They are called Chladni figures
[read more: buff.ly/3OpRR5J]
[📹 Steve Mould: buff.ly/3GtzLhp]
1103
Mycena interrupta, commonly known as the pixie's parasol, is a species of mushroom with a brilliant cyan blue colour
[read more: buff.ly/2Jdwk25]
[📷 Steve Sargent: buff.ly/3hZI1eV]
1104
This periodic table by Jennifer Johnson is color coded to indicate humanity's best guess as to the nuclear origin of all known elements
[source, read more: buff.ly/2XGx19h]
1105
The Sakya Monastery in Tibet houses a huge library of as many as 84,000 books on traditional stacks 60 meters long and 10 meters high. One scripture weighs more than 500 kg, the heaviest in the world
[read more: buff.ly/3UTum7t]
1106
This rocket launch from NASA-Kennedy in Cape Canaveral, Florida was caught on camera from a distance of 21 km away and altitude of 8,500 m by E. Milner on a flight from Baltimore, Maryland to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 2016
[HD: buff.ly/3OAVp5v]
1107
This video by traditional carpenter Dylan Iwakuni shows some of the fascinating traditional joineries discovered while taking apart this 100 year old Japanese house, literally built without using a single nail [full video, HD: buff.ly/3A3pN2W]
1108
Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows
— Werner Heisenberg
[source: buff.ly/3TRIoVO]
[📷 buff.ly/3XeCCkf]
1109
Just to let you know, this account on Mastodon is not me: it's an impersonator. Thanks.
1110
One of the most convincing and attention attracting opening to a math lesson
—Thomas Garrity Williams, «On mathematical maturity»
[full video: buff.ly/3EIch6N]
1111
Kyushu University released more than 1500 3D models of animals and plants using a photogrammetry technique, taking digital photos from multiple angles
[database: buff.ly/3OmYi9N]
[full paper: buff.ly/3UTBq40]
1112
Hydnellum peckii is a fungus whose fruit bodies can "bleed" bright red guttation droplets that contain a pigment known to have anticoagulant properties similar to heparin
[read more: buff.ly/3Omraif]
[📷 Coolskylerman, DeviantArt: buff.ly/3hPUGkh]
1113
In 1939, William E. Urschel created a technology very similar to the one used for today's 3D printed building. He did it behind a small warehouse in Valparaiso, Indiana and called it "Wall Building" machine
[full video: buff.ly/3tHAJiz]
1114
Modern mirrors are made by depositing aluminum. But back in the Victorian era, they made their mirrors using silver nitrate.
[This is how the process works: buff.ly/3O1jIrN] [video: buff.ly/3NIvPJT]
1115
If you remember this robot, you're no longer young, but this is a fully functioning, screen accurate, full size replica of Johnny 5 from the movie Short Circuit (1986)
[more clips on IG: buff.ly/3OigEJ2]
1116
Stephen Cunnane made this clip to help breakdown animal gaits for animators and artists, but it's very useful to learn how dogs walk too
[full video: vimeo.com/215637283]
1117
Paint correction is the process of permanently removing surface scratches, swirl marks, hazing, marring, and other imperfections in a vehicle’s paint. Yet, one must master the technque of car color grading, like this.
[source: buff.ly/3tPzLk1]
1118
In primates, recognition of snakes is instinctive, but fear of snakes is learned. This clip shows how caretakers of the jungle school set about teaching this buffoonery of orangutans
[full video: buff.ly/3jLSJSc]
1119
A mature Giant Sequoia can use 2000 liters of water every day during the summer. That's why snowy winters are fundamental: with adequate water they can live over 3,000 years [read more: buff.ly/3j1JY87] [📽️by Michael Block: buff.ly/2WEwNA8]
1120
Scientists have determined that the V-shaped formation that geese use serves two important purposes: it conserves their energy and they can keep track of every bird in the group
[read more: buff.ly/3pWnGZk]
[📹 buff.ly/3Ohwd3L]
1121
When hunting, owls swoop silently from the sky. To show just how impressive a feat this is, BBC Earth set up this experiment comparing owl flight to that of a pigeon and Peregrine Falcon
[full video, BBC: buff.ly/3eSbcvr]
1122
At the Hall des Lumières art museum in New York, you can happen to see immersive perspectives like this one
[read more: halldeslumieres.com]
[📹 eshaknows: buff.ly/3UU0A2A]
1123
Did you know? In the time it took scientists to discover it, let it be a planet for 76 years, take away its planet status, say it might be a planet again, then explore it and have its best pictures: Pluto didn't even completed a full orbit around the Sun buff.ly/33W8JJo
1124
It's called visual hierarchy [read more: buff.ly/2RrbNGi]
1125
This is a coloured scanning electron micrograph of a sweat gland pore opening onto the surface of a human palm. Sweat pores bring sweat from a sweat gland to the skin surface. The sweat evaporates, removing heat and playing a vital role in cooling the body buff.ly/2qXFMOC
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