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Gustaf III Airport s a public use airport located in the village of St. Jean on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy. This video by Sam Watt shows how airplanes land there, with the addition of (recurrent) windy conditions [full video: buff.ly/3pZCDay]
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Many creatures wear disguises in order to keep safe from predators, but there are some that dress to kill. Orchid mantises are one of nature’s most awesome examples of aggressive mimicry [video: buff.ly/3lYRHG7-]
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Ippitsuryu is an ancient Japanese tradition of creating the flowing, river-like body of the dragon in just a single stroke. In this video, artist Keisuke Teshima shows the mesmerizing balance required by this technique [full video: buff.ly/34WUHNe]
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One of the most poetic sights of the Apollo missions: a crescent Earth seen from the Apollo 15 command module during the trip back home, 51 years ago #Today bit.ly/2aGDtCC
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This 1974 photograph shows the freshly excavated pit with 2,000-year-old terracotta warriors still showing the original color scheme before the rapid deterioration that made them as we know them today [sources, read more: buff.ly/3zXKYDg]
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The Fourier Transform explained in one sentence [source and read more, by Stuart Riffle: buff.ly/3ILfsdD]
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The Victoria crowned pigeon is now the most rarely occurring of the three crowned pigeon species in the wild and is evaluated as Near Threatened in the IUCN threatened species
[read more: buff.ly/3QgbflG]
[📹 nohumanz_: buff.ly/3Jw4BFC ]
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Extra vertebrae and free floating clavicle bones allow cats to pass their body through incredibly narrow spaces. Basically they can squeeze through any space larger than their skull: bit.ly/2pU9aU7 [source of the gif: buff.ly/3Q1Dwwd]
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How high you would jump on other planets or moons?
This video shows the average jump height of a person on Earth and its equivalent in other worlds of the Solar System
[full video, HD, MetaBallStudios: buff.ly/3Jzo5sW]
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«Le Petit Chef» restaurants playfully guide diners through an interactive experience where the story behind each course is brought to life through cutting edge projection-mapping created by the world-famous artists of Skullmapping lepetitchef.com
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This is the Bonsai tree that was planted in 1625, survived the devastation of the Hiroshima bombing 77 years ago #Today and is still growing today [read more: buff.ly/3Qn5kuP]
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The story of the crew of the Ethiopian Boeing 737-700, who, after being hit by a swarm of locusts in January 2020, had to open the cockpit side window and clean the windscreen by hand at 2600 meters of altitude [read more: buff.ly/2NjSEGY]
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In 1988 the U.S. government wanted to know how strong reinforced concrete is, the very same stuff used in construction of nuclear reactor facilities, So they launched an F4 Phantom jet at 500 mph and slammed it head-on directly into a slab of concrete buff.ly/3vK1Fzj
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The lobster moth (Stauropus fagi), has an odd-looking caterpillar with a crustacean-like appearance.
This caterpillar can also shoot formic acid (most commonly found in ant venom) as a defense.
[learn more, video: buff.ly/3P2lY20]
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Swincar's e-Spider is an all-terrain electrical vehicle developed by designer Pascal Rambaud. Its design is based on a pendulum: four independent suspension systems keep the driver vertical at all times [read more: swincar.net]
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Owls are masters in using blind-spots and in flying in an extremely silent manner, thanks to a special feather adaption
[read more: buff.ly/3Qln1uX]
[📷 Tom Samuelson: buff.ly/2YSm6cI]
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This keepers worked at one of the most dangerous lighthouses in the world, Le Kéréon, located off the coast of Brittany. It was fully automated in 2004, so no one commutes to it anymore, but this is how they changed shift
[videos: buff.ly/3StSJIi]
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Smoke usually doesn't behave like a liquid, because its particles tend to rise, carried by convection currents. But there are conditions in which smoke can drip like water
[learn when: buff.ly/2XC70eo]
[source of the clip: buff.ly/3m2d3SP]
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With an improved haptic device, this Naver Lab robot used various human-like movements to successfully complete the difficult task of assembling an IKEA chair without any special additional devices [full video, normal speed: buff.ly/3Qql4NS]
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You can make a glass sing with your fingers, but can you play Sugar Plum Fairy by Tchaikovsky? The Glass Duo did it, among the other impressive performances [full video and more: buff.ly/37cetm7] [the physics behind the sound: buff.ly/36UkOCo]
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The Geneva drive is a gear mechanism that translates a continuous rotation into a discrete motion
[source, read more: buff.ly/2nya5bS]
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Middle-class home comes to light in Pompeii. A cupboard that had stayed unopened for 2,000 years, was found complete with dishware, glass plates, ceramic bowls and vases. In the findings also ornaments and a bed [read more: buff.ly/3SteLL7]
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The complete human nervous system dissection
In 19th-century Philadelphia, an anatomist dissected and mounted this human nervous system. Now researchers are trying to figure out whose remains are stretched out in a glass case
[source, read more: buff.ly/3bYUB8B]
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Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland is on fire again. The new eruption in the valley of Meradalir has attracted tourists who have travelled to see the red-hot lava flowing [read more: buff.ly/3dcdAiY]
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You can hear the words «Green Needle» or «Brainstorm» only based on which one you think about.
This is an auditory illusion, or a false perception of a real sound [explanation: buff.ly/3ItCQfg]
[📹: buff.ly/3vJDKQH]
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