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The Ruppert Archaeopteryx is a high-wing, single-seat, foot-launchable microlift glider
[read more: buff.ly/3pxI6ae]
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The ocean sunfish is the world's heaviest known bony fish: it reaches up to 2,300 kg of weight & 4.2 meters of size across the fins buff.ly/2p3FDYk [video: buff.ly/2PTq3fA]
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Gerd Schuster co-author of "Thinkers of the Jungle: The Orangutan Report", took this photograph of a male orangutan in Borneo on the island of Kaja, clinging to overhanging branches, trying to spear a passing fish [source: buff.ly/2YxE5Dr]
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Migratory birds are suffering the loss of their natural habitat & become critically endangered. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology works to help save them. This video by 422south.com explains the migratory patterns in the the Yellow Sea: buff.ly/3w64dqx
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Young owls sleep face down, mainly due to the weight of their heads. The owlets lie down on their stomachs, turn their heads to the side, and fall asleep
[source: buff.ly/3i68Ic3, buff.ly/3qmFBbk]
[clip: buff.ly/3IpEPk4]
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Pavegen tiles are used to generate kinetic energy, and each step on them may generate up to 7W of off-grid electricity [source, read more: buff.ly/3AxW7uE]
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The original problem set in 1954 looked for Solutions of the Diophantine Equation x³+y³+z³=k with k being all the numbers from 1 to 100. This is how researchers solved the final piece for the most elusive number of all, 42: buff.ly/2N0TuKq [video: buff.ly/2Q2J9Qe]
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An example of how AR glasses will manage your physical items. It may be possible to look at your credit card, see your account statement and balance, and even place new orders
[📹 artirilmisgerceklik: buff.ly/3AB6P3O]
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Astronomers have discovered one of the biggest black hole jets in the sky. Spanning more than a million light years from end to end, the jet shoots away from a black hole at almost the speed of light showing shock diamonds analogous to jet engines buff.ly/3ceC9f3
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A blowhole is essential the nostril of a whale. Similar to a human's the whale’s blowhole is attached to their trachea and is connected to the lungs. In some whales' species, their appearance is definitely similar to a human nose, like this humpback whale ow.ly/e3iS30n5bbH
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It looks like a drawing, but it's a seawater drop extracted with a zooplankton net and magnified 25x, showing bacteria, larvae, zooplankton and worms [read more: bit.ly/2w5PZFu]
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A kingfisher diving, as seen from a fish's point of view
[source, Earth Rangers + read more: buff.ly/2pIFpEh]
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This video shows the stars orbiting the black hole at the center of our galaxy.
S0-2 has the fastest known ballistic orbit, reaching speeds exceeding 5,000 km/s (11,000,000 mph, or 1⁄60 the speed of light)
[source: buff.ly/2UCPUsS]
[more: buff.ly/3QC2F0R]
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The Colomban Cri-Cri is the smallest twin-engined manned aircraft in the world, designed in the early 1970s by French aeronautical engineer Michel Colomban [read more: ow.ly/PGa430n4hgw] [source: ow.ly/zmhg30n4hh1]
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The Cereus Forbesii ‘Spiralis’ is a rare cultivar of the Cereus forbesii prized for its spiral growth habit. It is a cross-pollination between the Cereus forbesii and the Cereus peruvianus
[📸 Ernesto Murguía]
[source: buff.ly/3c6rOlk]
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Bears can climb steep cliff faces very nimbly.
This 2014 video by Stephanie Latimer captured two Mexican black bears (mom and cub) climb Santa Elena Canyon
[source: buff.ly/2LU7GEN]
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Emperor penguins transport their chicks on their feet. Some of them might be doing that the wrong way
[source and full video: buff.ly/34Ew5nI]
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Dinoflagellates are bioluminescent organisms found in the surface layers of the sea, responsible for the sparkling phosphorescence seen at night in disturbed water
[read more: buff.ly/3A92WBp]
[📹 Patrick Coyne: buff.ly/3Aa5Vd0]
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There are many ways to get across the point of distortion in the Mercator map. Here's a planisphere indicating a distance across Africa and another distance across Russia and things don't add up [source, read more: buff.ly/3HGVLme]
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Artist Roberto Ziche computer rendered in 3D these sleek graphics elegantly depicting the immense scale of our Solar System and its planets. This meticulous work leaves the viewer with a stunning depiction of the massive scale of our planetary neighbors buff.ly/3wn9aM1
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A crinkle crankle wall is an unusual type of garden wall built in a serpentine shape typically found in the UK. It economizes on bricks because it can be made just one brick thin. If a wall this thin was made in a straight line, it would easily topple over ow.ly/4LY850zYx9T
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In Pompeii, some streets have little white stones between the bigger ones and it's very likely this was done to facilitate the nighttime visibility, reflecting moonlight or the oil lamps' brightness [source, read more: buff.ly/3uh90nO]
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Fossil coral is a natural stone formed when ancient coral is gradually replaced with agate. Its proper name is agatized coral. The fossilized coral typically appears as small flower-like patterns in the stone [read more: buff.ly/3k7BFHp] [photo: buff.ly/2No3cIw]
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Take your time to understand exactly how differentiation is defined using the concept of limits [source: buff.ly/2rZ2cQa]
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Fun fact: the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost part of Brazil [read more: buff.ly/2Q73lxK]
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