1351
This performance by dancer and coreographer Yoann Bourgeois ("Success isn't linear") is also a good visualization of how potential, kinetic and elastic energy are exchanged
[animated scheme: buff.ly/2qhkllZ]
1352
This photo of Kuala Lampur during a lightning storm is a stack of 32 shots taken over the course of 40 minutes by photographer Fendy Gan in May 2020
[source, more photos: buff.ly/3yA6Ljz]
1353
Cape penduline tits build a globular nest made of spider webs and silken fibers. They have a false entry and chamber below the actual entrance. This is a defence against snakes and other nest predators
[read more: buff.ly/3qsZDA6]
[source: buff.ly/3sDBhqa]
1354
The parking assist feature on modern cars might seem like a recent innovation, but if Brooks Walker had his way we would have been using it since the 1930s
[source, read more: buff.ly/3ErlD3l]
1355
Valonia ventricosa is one of the largest known unicellular organisms, if not the largest. This means that what you see in the image, a sea-algae that can get to 5 cm in diameter, is actually a single living cell
[read more: buff.ly/3FyTYjt]
1356
If enough speed is built up in the water, an African butterflyfish can jump and glide a small distance above the surface. These are three young specimens
[read more: buff.ly/3mAqt8t]
[source, full clip: buff.ly/30ZMpCl]
1357
Elephants learn to fully control their trunk around 9 months - 1 year of age. This video collage by National Geographic show some glimpses of this process
[sources: buff.ly/3EkpnUf]
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1358
Photographer Dimitar Karanikolov piloted a drone over the waters near Oslob in the province of Cebu, Philippines, to get this stunning view of whale sharks seen from above
[source: buff.ly/3HbFoxD]
[author's Instagram: buff.ly/3qlbd0i]
1359
Photographer David Orias is specialized in pictures of surfing, waves, and water reflections using slow shutter speeds and panning the camera to create a more painterly look, which produces remarkable results
[more photos by the author: buff.ly/2rWIEZK]
1360
The world’s 7.95 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things, yet since the dawn of civilisation, humanity has caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of plants
[read more: buff.ly/2rY7RTw]
1361
The giant oceanic manta ray is the largest type of ray in the world. It can grow to a disc size of up to 7 m (23 ft) across with a weight of about 3,000 kg (6,600 lb)
[📹 Shiva Selwyn]
[read more: buff.ly/2pBEk41]
1362
Iceland is an amazing land, where you can even happen to spot a nightsky split between the cold green of an aurora and the fiery red of a distant volcanic eruption, like in this impressive photo by Hörður Finnbogason
[source: buff.ly/2X5wj3i]
1363
The most common estimates of the humans who have ever lived on Earth are around 108 billion people. Using that assumption, a little under 7% of all people who have ever lived are alive right now
[source: buff.ly/3iG40V2]
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1364
Manatees are herbivores and eat over 60 different freshwater and saltwater plants, but they are often spotted while eating land grass. In other words, sea cows being cows
[read more: buff.ly/3JmFvIA
1365
Floating soaked loops of thread onto a soap film. How surface tension pulls the thread into round loops
[source: buff.ly/2rXZJ5y]
1366
The Zanclean flood or Zanclean Deluge is a flood theorized to have refilled the Mediterranean Sea 5.33 million years ago. According to this model, water from the Atlantic Ocean refilled the dried up basin through the modern-day Strait of Gibraltar buff.ly/2KFkCJt
1367
The Typhoon is a class of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines built by the Soviet Union. With a submerged displacement of 48,000 tonnes, the Typhoons are the largest submarines ever built. This picture gives an idea of their scale vs the crew buff.ly/2oNliRT
1368
This is an excerpt from the original US Patent number 3005282 A, issued 61 years ago #Today, proposing a design for a "Toy building brick", from a company named LEGO. That brick became much more than a simple toy buff.ly/2W9C0gy
1369
The coast around Benagil, Portugal, is made up of Miocene limestone sitting on much older rocks created in the Mesozoic: over time, the limestone built up, with the layers that make up the Benagil Sea Cave forming about 20 million years ago
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1370
A 3.6MW wind turbine off the Irish coast was struck by lightning and bursts into flames on October 20, 2022
[read more: buff.ly/3DnGYxl]
1371
The comet moth is one of the world's largest silk moths, with a wingspan of 20 cm and a tail span of 15 cm
[read more: bit.ly/1OF90Rf]
[📹 franni.moth: buff.ly/3NhWuwx]
1372
A facial reconstruction project focusing on ancient Egypt on some of its pharaohs and even normal people
[full video: buff.ly/3TRSeI1]
1373
Let's imagine 𝟏 𝐛𝐲𝐭𝐞 is 𝟏 𝐦𝐦³
What would it be the size of the 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭?
[full 📹, HD, MetaBallStudios: buff.ly/3Fc78EH]
1374
“Abandoned Civilization” is a collection of nine separate paintings cobbled together to resemble the famous Mona Lisa — a recreation of the Leonardo da Vinci’s work by Artificial Intelligence
[source + tutorial to make your own: buff.ly/3F9uCua]
1375
Watch the incredible moment as Wounda, one of the more than 160 chimpanzees living at the Jane Goodall's Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center in the Republic of Congo, was released in the wild
[full video: buff.ly/3xFT2pR]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links