1876
The story of the young arctic fox that walked across the ice from Norway's Svalbard islands to northern Canada in an epic journey, covering 3,506 km (2,176 miles) in just 76 days
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1877
This 1960s documentary from The Kinolibrary envisions a set of future home tools that appear quite matching our current ones, especially buying online and working from home
[source, full video: buff.ly/2Cyyweo]
1878
It might sound as an insane idea, especially because it took 83 days of planning, dreaming, building & filming, but in the end The Brick Wall gave you a video of a cucumber house being constructed using a LEGO robot
[full video: buff.ly/3pFfFrK]
1879
With rice transplanting, seedlings are grown in a nursery, transported and transplanted into puddled fields 15 to 40 days after seeding. Rice seedlings can either be transplanted manually or by machine, like in this case [📹: buff.ly/3Jh2XaD]
1880
Current benchmarks for don & doff Richard Browning's Gravity Jet Suit, speed bearing ams and demonstration of the helmet steered sidearm
[full video, HD: buff.ly/3UEFmoW]
1881
"The End of the War" is a graphic record of when the guns fell silent at the end of WWI recorded by sound ranging equipment near the front, 104 years ago #Today
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1882
Photographer and sculptor Yves Lappert uses pieces of wood and other simple materials to play with lights and shadow, obtaining extremely effective optical illusion with a minimalist gestures [IG account: buff.ly/3x1HmPD] [site: buff.ly/3NHrTK6]
1883
Nikifor Ivanov, the gardener who grows a special breed of apples the size of pearls which can withstand the extreme weather conditions in Siberia
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1884
Every Veterans Day, November 11 at exactly 11:11 am, the sun aligns perfectly with the Anthem Veterans Memorial in Anthem, Arizona
[read more: bit.ly/2xDU0lI]
1885
Tamas Kalman owns and operates Octopus Kites, an online store that sells giant high-quality handmade, yes, octopus kites. Each kite is 15 meters long and amazing to watch
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1886
The cigar box juggling is so rapid here, that the illusion of 3 hands is quite strong
[source: Kris Kremo, Generation Game Christmas Special, 1993, buff.ly/2GXLzGa]
1887
The story of the shark, which, fitted with a GPS tracker, seemingly spent years drawing a picture … of itself
[read more: buff.ly/3Gerfmp]
1888
85 years ago #Today, Alan Turing first described to the world the Universal Machine, later to be known as the Turing Machine, creating the basic theory of computability for several decades to come [read more: ubm.io/2ABJm0l] [source of the gif: buff.ly/3qxfVtG]
1889
This BBC Earth video documents an extraordinary survival strategy that Japanese wild bees have developed. Being capable of tolerating 2°C of temperature vs their enemies, they kill a giant hornet by overheating it at 46°C [full video: buff.ly/3gkxY0V]
1890
Ferrets, both useful and adorable, have a long history of assisting mankind by accomplishing the most impossible of tasks – including cabling
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1891
Samanea saman, is a species of flowering tree in the pea family. It usually reaches a height of 15–25 m (49–82 ft) and a diameter of 30 m (98 ft). This is located in Alae Cemetery, Wainaku, Hawaii
[source, alexjbauer: buff.ly/3Uyezeb]
1892
This is a Babylonian tablet recording Halley's comet, written in cuneiform on a clay tablet between 22 and 28 September 164 BCE
[source: ow.ly/OIKl30nMUti]
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1893
Around 85% of humans only breathe out of one nostril at a time. Even more interesting is that the pattern of switching from breathing out of one nostril to the other happens in a cyclical fashion, with about four hours between each switch
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1894
Bees can quickly master an insect version of football — with a sweet reward at the end — just by watching another bee handle the ball, suggesting that the tiny pollinators are capable of sophisticated learning
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1895
Body transfer illusion is the illusion of owning either a part of a body or an entire body other than one's own. One particular case is the rubber hand illusion which is an interesting experiment that reveals how the brain understands the body [read more: buff.ly/2J48u8D]
1896
Oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid made of 1 part of water to 1.5–2 parts of corn starch, and is used to show the force of sound vibrations. When sitting on subwoofers, it thickens from the force, and looks like it’s dancing or coming to life
[full video: buff.ly/2p3XwXW]
1897
Where the terms 'uppercase' and 'lowercase' came from: from the early days of the printing press
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1898
Platysternon megacephalum (or big headed turtle) is a very odd-shaped turtle with a huge head and a long tail that are almost the same size as its body.
[read more: buff.ly/3hzA93q]
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1899
This slow motion video depicts the motion of the brain during an impact event. Concussions are the most common form of traumatic brain injury & are a growing concern in many contact sports [Source, University of California: buff.ly/3mJouPh] [more: ow.ly/MnvP30nOnGV]
1900
Why golf balls have dimples. It turns out, somewhat counter intuitively, those dimples significantly decrease the drag on the golf ball as it flies through the air, compared to a smooth ball
[read more: ow.ly/iBbo30nMBi4]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links