1401
Artist Shinrashinge makes 2D characters come to life with the simplest of materials. The curved surface on the cups allows Shinrashinge to make art that looks like a moving animation [read more: buff.ly/3EurYLo-] [Instagram: buff.ly/3JllQc0]
1402
Minori Yamazaki invented the kaleidoscope "CUMOS" in 1974. This polyhedral closed box kaleidoscope uses 6 mirrors to create a repetitive reflection and an infinite macro universe within a tiny micro box
[read more: minoriyamazaki.com]
[full video: buff.ly/2X6tAZg]
1403
When humans lose weight, fat is eliminated and leaves the body. But not through the channels you probably think. Believe it or not 80% of the fat is exhaled through the lungs as carbon dioxide
[read more: ow.ly/oGXV30nIUxP]
[source: buff.ly/2KbQTrN]
1404
It's always difficult to answer what is the best focal length for a portrait. But the popular gif by @danvojtech offers a smart preview of how different focal lengths can change the look of a face
[source, read more: buff.ly/327dIoJ]
1405
This waterfall is located outside the Peruvian city of Cajamarca and resembles the shape of a woman wearing a bridal dress: it's called La Cascada de la Novia
[read more: buff.ly/3xDcwex]
[note: this is a cinemagraph obtained by a shorter clip]
1406
Theresa Lucas was driving in north-central Minnesota toward Bemidji on June 18, 2022 and catpured this impressive cloud formation that looks like an ocean in the sky
[source, read more: buff.ly/3TqHsbO]
1407
The Río Tinto is a river in southwestern Spain which has a unique red and orange colour derived from its chemical makeup that is extremely acidic (pH 2) and with very high levels of iron and heavy metals
[read more: buff.ly/3kHBVMC]
1408
This clip shows how realistic Amsterdam looks like in this Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 walkthrough. The upgraded engine features new streaming/rendering systems
[read more: buff.ly/3eUHqd2]
[full video, 4K, by Shirrako: buff.ly/3TLfNSM]
1409
The moment in which surfer Sebastian Steudtner rode a 35 meter (115 feet) tall wave at Nazaré, Portugal on January 18, 2018
[full video, HD: buff.ly/2PBDUqP]
[why the waves at Nazaré are so tall: buff.ly/3jsANxA]
1410
American Kestrels have super head stabilization skills, making it look locked in one position in the air. This video shows the natural ability this bird has to stabilize its head
[📹 Talons and Teeth: buff.ly/3nbuUVu]
twitter.com/magioliveira/s…
1411
"Tradinno" is a radio-controlled, outdoor-capable, four-legged, 15.50 m long walking robot, powered by a 2.0 l turbo diesel with 140 hp, a mechanical power of 80 kW and electrical power of 10 kW
[video: buff.ly/3Di79FS]
1412
A DJI MAVIC3 drone captured these stunning views above Mount Everest
[📹 Oduyin VDGER: buff.ly/3SjWPRP]
1413
In 1993, AT&T launched an advertising campaign directed by David Fincher that somehow predicted pretty much everything about how we work and live today: tablets, smart watches, GPS, on-demand entertainment, and more
[read more: buff.ly/3F6SbDR]
1414
The Parrot Toadstool is a small mushroom, with a convex to umbonate cap 1–3 centimetres (⅓–1 in) in diameter, which is green when young and later yellowish or even pinkish ting [read more: ow.ly/EbYA50AJSHi]
1415
Petr Spatina plays glasses. When he was young, he learned to play the accordion and the piano before embarking on learning a quite unusual musical instrument, “the glass harp”
[full video: buff.ly/3gu2sji]
[read more: buff.ly/3SsriNI]
1416
Photographer Dan Legend captures the magic of the ocean in his captivating underwater images, often using simple effects capable of creating stunning results.
This one is titled «Between two worlds»
[source, more photos: danlegend.com]
1417
This is what installing 2 Petabytes (2048 Terabytes) of storage looks like.
There are 20 shelves with 12 HHDs each in the rack, for a total of 240 HDDs.
[source: buff.ly/3z1w5i9]
1418
Commerson's frogfish (also known as giant frogfish) grows up to 38 cm and like other members of its family, it has a globular, extensible body. Its large mouth allows it to consume prey as large as itself
[📹 krakenaquatics: buff.ly/3TJq4Pm]
1419
This 20,000 meter high tornado spawning supercell was filmed by Rich Isaacman on May 16, 2022 near Lubbock, Texas
[source: buff.ly/3DfZpEj]
1420
Watch the moment the Kham Lha herd runs to a reunion with Darrick Thompson, who operates an elephant sanctuary in Chiang Mai province, Thailand, after 14 months
#ElephantsNeverForget: buff.ly/2FHKthn
[📹 elephantnews: buff.ly/3H4wBxw]
1421
How simple pieces of wood and hinges makes a basic mechanical binary counter
[full video, Mathmo14159: buff.ly/2rUlTF2]
1422
The Ubari Sand Sea is a vast area of towering sand dunes in the Fezzan region of south-western Libya. The place includes about twenty small salt lakes and beautiful palm-fringed oases that appear like anomalies in the harsh desert environment [read more: ow.ly/VrTG30nGTiv]
1423
Hippos can’t swim. So how do they move through water? They leverage their own buoyancy and bone density to charge through the water
[read more: theatln.tc/2qJpFn6]
[📹 realalishahraki: buff.ly/3O3lXL4]
1424
This is a detail of the right forearm of Michelangelo's Moses (c. 1513–1515). The blue circle highlights a small muscle called extensor digiti minimi, which only contracts when the little finger is lifted
[source, read more: buff.ly/3xsSG5L]
1425
Cookeina is a genus of cup fungi in the family Sarcoscyphaceae that has a deep, cup-shaped to funnel-shaped fruiting bodies, or apothecia
[read more: buff.ly/3MTGgve]
[📷 buff.ly/3CVAkgi, buff.ly/3F23YU6]
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