1226
Oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid made of 1 part of water to 1.5–2 parts of corn starch, and is used to show the force of sound vibrations. When sitting on subwoofers, it thickens from the force, and looks like it’s dancing or coming to life
[full video: buff.ly/2p3XwXW]
1227
Body transfer illusion is the illusion of owning either a part of a body or an entire body other than one's own. One particular case is the rubber hand illusion which is an interesting experiment that reveals how the brain understands the body [read more: buff.ly/2J48u8D]
1228
Bees can quickly master an insect version of football — with a sweet reward at the end — just by watching another bee handle the ball, suggesting that the tiny pollinators are capable of sophisticated learning
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1229
Around 85% of humans only breathe out of one nostril at a time. Even more interesting is that the pattern of switching from breathing out of one nostril to the other happens in a cyclical fashion, with about four hours between each switch
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1230
This is a Babylonian tablet recording Halley's comet, written in cuneiform on a clay tablet between 22 and 28 September 164 BCE
[source: ow.ly/OIKl30nMUti]
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1231
Samanea saman, is a species of flowering tree in the pea family. It usually reaches a height of 15–25 m (49–82 ft) and a diameter of 30 m (98 ft). This is located in Alae Cemetery, Wainaku, Hawaii
[source, alexjbauer: buff.ly/3Uyezeb]
1232
Ferrets, both useful and adorable, have a long history of assisting mankind by accomplishing the most impossible of tasks – including cabling
[read more: buff.ly/2kpBWav]
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1233
This BBC Earth video documents an extraordinary survival strategy that Japanese wild bees have developed. Being capable of tolerating 2°C of temperature vs their enemies, they kill a giant hornet by overheating it at 46°C [full video: buff.ly/3gkxY0V]
1234
85 years ago #Today, Alan Turing first described to the world the Universal Machine, later to be known as the Turing Machine, creating the basic theory of computability for several decades to come [read more: ubm.io/2ABJm0l] [source of the gif: buff.ly/3qxfVtG]
1235
The story of the shark, which, fitted with a GPS tracker, seemingly spent years drawing a picture … of itself
[read more: buff.ly/3Gerfmp]
1236
The cigar box juggling is so rapid here, that the illusion of 3 hands is quite strong
[source: Kris Kremo, Generation Game Christmas Special, 1993, buff.ly/2GXLzGa]
1237
Tamas Kalman owns and operates Octopus Kites, an online store that sells giant high-quality handmade, yes, octopus kites. Each kite is 15 meters long and amazing to watch
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1238
Every Veterans Day, November 11 at exactly 11:11 am, the sun aligns perfectly with the Anthem Veterans Memorial in Anthem, Arizona
[read more: bit.ly/2xDU0lI]
1239
Nikifor Ivanov, the gardener who grows a special breed of apples the size of pearls which can withstand the extreme weather conditions in Siberia
[read more: buff.ly/3ULqg0S]
1240
Photographer and sculptor Yves Lappert uses pieces of wood and other simple materials to play with lights and shadow, obtaining extremely effective optical illusion with a minimalist gestures [IG account: buff.ly/3x1HmPD] [site: buff.ly/3NHrTK6]
1241
"The End of the War" is a graphic record of when the guns fell silent at the end of WWI recorded by sound ranging equipment near the front, 104 years ago #Today
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1242
Current benchmarks for don & doff Richard Browning's Gravity Jet Suit, speed bearing ams and demonstration of the helmet steered sidearm
[full video, HD: buff.ly/3UEFmoW]
1243
With rice transplanting, seedlings are grown in a nursery, transported and transplanted into puddled fields 15 to 40 days after seeding. Rice seedlings can either be transplanted manually or by machine, like in this case [📹: buff.ly/3Jh2XaD]
1244
It might sound as an insane idea, especially because it took 83 days of planning, dreaming, building & filming, but in the end The Brick Wall gave you a video of a cucumber house being constructed using a LEGO robot
[full video: buff.ly/3pFfFrK]
1245
This 1960s documentary from The Kinolibrary envisions a set of future home tools that appear quite matching our current ones, especially buying online and working from home
[source, full video: buff.ly/2Cyyweo]
1246
The story of the young arctic fox that walked across the ice from Norway's Svalbard islands to northern Canada in an epic journey, covering 3,506 km (2,176 miles) in just 76 days
[read more: buff.ly/2FGW6YD]
1247
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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1248
The olinguito is a mammal of the raccoon family Procyonidae that lives in montane forests in the Andes of western Colombia and Ecuador. The species was described as new in 2013
[read more: buff.ly/2saAQna]
1249
The story of HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen, the Dutch minesweeper that avoided Japanese aircraft in 1942 and escaped to Australia by disguising as a tropical island, covered in foliage and with rocks painted on the hull, only sailing at night
[read more: buff.ly/2DoTPTJ]
1250
This is Bruce, the animatronic Shark used for Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws'. While the stories of its malfunctioning are legendary, it showed how effective an animatronic special effect could be
[read more: buff.ly/2QxyoGD]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links