1776
The strange story of this unusual train line in Baku, Azerbaijan, crossing a 7 lane motorway
[video, explanation: buff.ly/3W07B2E]
1777
«Ladder to the sky»
This small wooden jetty on a foggy lake in Latvia creates a brilliant optical illusion of being totally suspended amidst the sky
[📹 elizabetevizuma: buff.ly/3D4uARv]
1778
Born #Today in 1910, William Higinbotham was the physicist who invented the first video game, Tennis for Two in 1958, using a small analogue computer with ten operational amplifiers and output a side view of the flight of the tennis ball on an oscilloscope buff.ly/3BgnBSG
1779
#Today in 1983, Microsoft Word was first released
[read more: buff.ly/3F94vnf]
1780
This video shows an experiment modeling a dam, where the water is slowly drenching the sand until the model dam bursts and collapses
[📹 HD1080ide: buff.ly/3dncheO]
1781
A kinetic LEGO sculpture of the Greek mythological figure Sisyphus endlessly pushing his boulder
[source, JK Brickworks: buff.ly/2GADEhP]
[feet motion and driving mechanism: buff.ly/2wTTswy]
1782
Bats are not rodents. They are their own group called Chiroptera. They are more closely related to cats than rats
[📹 Tracey Jolliffe]
[read more: buff.ly/3ekNqI3]
1783
Building an electric motor in its simplest form: coil, magnet, and battery
[📹 lilingogames: buff.ly/2tAV0ax]
1784
There were over 158,962,555,217,826,360,000 combinations to the Enigma Machine, regarding the codes it could use for messages. Yet, Alan Turing's Bombe machine, through trial & error, was able to decode messages sent by Germans in 20 minutes
[video: ow.ly/QjlS30nM0Fr]
1785
The seeds of these wild oats each have two bristles called awns. Once the seeds fall to the ground their awns help them do something truly extraordinary…they walk
[full video, BBC Earth: buff.ly/3gF2MLZ]
1786
50% of Panda births result in twins, but Panda moms almost always abandon one. Therefore, zookeepers have to switch the cubs every few hours to trick the mom in to caring for both
[source, full video, BBC: buff.ly/2N3GBvu]
1787
In 36BCE, Marcus Varro wrote about germs describing "minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes...enter the body through the mouth & nose & there cause serious diseases" The germ theory of disease would not be widely accepted for another 1,900 years ow.ly/RVjE30nIUoZ
1788
Here's how deep humans have dug underground in the past 100 years
[video: buff.ly/2GT4uSI]
1789
The male Cabot's tragopan has very colorful decorative, inflatable wattles below its beak and has a pair of peculiar fleshy blue "horns" over the eyes
[read more: buff.ly/2IxQQ96]
1790
Strange as this may sound, when a bee hive becomes too full, bees will form a "senate" comprised of more experienced bees to seek a new location. When the location has been found, they vote on it by dancing as a collective until a consensus is reached buff.ly/2PPpd1O
1791
Bastien Dausse's "Moon" is a show imagined as a living and acrobatic exhibition, conceived as an accumulation of surprising antigravity devices. This one simulates the lunar gravity.
[source: buff.ly/3HOAqbT]
[video: buff.ly/3OnOTOe]
1792
In the 1980s, a decade before the Internet went mainstream, all adults in France had access to a powerful network. This included same day food delivery, paying bills, and home automation. The Minitel
[read more: bit.ly/2gtMJBC]
1793
Born #Today in 1790, Robert Stirling was minister and inventor of the Stirling Cycle engine.
This is a 1903 phonograph working with a Stirling hot air engine
[read more: buff.ly/3srbRL5]
[📹 Oliver Mallia]
1794
Every year, across Japan there are literally hundreds of Firework Festivals. "Yonshakudama" is the largest firework shell in the world launched for the Katakai-Matsuri Festival: 420 kg of weight
[source, full video: buff.ly/3AqBIYP]
1795
This clip shows a bobcat jumping over a river in super slow motion
[📹 BBC Planet Earth II: buff.ly/3q4ghV4]
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1796
Gujo Hachiman, in Japan, has been a center of food replica production for decades. This 2014 video by Tony Begbie shows how display lettuce is made out of wax
[source: buff.ly/3AkLAn8]
1797
Anothere review of the carved mahogany writing table, said to have been crafted specifically for use by King Carlo Alberto of Sardinia (1798-1849) with a surprising number of unusual secret compartments
[source, m.s.rau_: buff.ly/3gLf9GI]
1798
Yamaha Motoroid has been conceived as machine that behaves like a living creature. Its primary technologies are an image recognition AI system, self-balancing technology, and a haptic human-machine interface
[video, HD: buff.ly/3vw1Gop]
1799
This popular video shows the «world's most battered great white shark»: a specimen filmed in southern Australia in 2021, showing dozens of scratches, scars and wounds on every part of its body
[Dean Spraakman: buff.ly/3sreQmW]
1800
Created by Charles Hartenstein, this toy explains one of the most fundamental principles of math, the Pythagorean Theorem, using marbles
[source: buff.ly/2WQWcEe]
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