2076
#FibonacciDay is celebrated on November 23 because when the date is written like (11/23), it forms part of the Fibonacci Sequence (1, 1, 2, 3). How can you celebrate it? Go out and start looking for evidence of the sequence in the world around you buff.ly/3CKOlvx
2077
This simple gif by Jakub Nowosad shows the effect of the Mercator projection on the real size of continents and countries on a planisphere
[source, read more: buff.ly/2rrI5Wz]
2078
This visualization by @kevinmgill shows what Mars would look like today if it still had water (or tomorrow, when terraforming succeeds)
[source + details + read more: buff.ly/3G7Zc4W]
2079
The Pangeos is a concept created by Lazzarini Design for an itinerant floating city, comprising various hotels, shopping centers, parks, ship and aircraft ports, and all other facilities needed to house up to 60,000 guests
[📹 buff.ly/3Evwrzx]
2080
In this mesmerizing 6-minute time lapse, a single cell divides seemingly endlessly until what was once a yellow blob has become a wriggling, darting salamander tadpole
[read more: buff.ly/2TR1ttg]
[full video: buff.ly/2GYIaeG]
2081
Stotting is a behavior of quadrupeds in which they spring into the air, lifting all four feet simultaneously
[read more: buff.ly/2r6WmJY]
[full video: buff.ly/31GAg1E]
2082
An autostereogram is a single-image stereogram, designed to create the visual illusion of a 3D scene from a two-dimensional image. Often called 'Magic Eye', not everyone is able to see the hidden image, but you can use a trick: magiceye.ecksdee.co.uk [buff.ly/2J5DAwO]
2083
'Vida' is a glass sculpture by Jack Storms made with 32% optical lead crystal, optical crystal and dichroic glass
[source, read more: bit.ly/2wVmE1M]
2084
The Etruscan shrew is the smallest known mammal by mass, weighing only about 1.8 grams (0.063 oz) on average and has a heart rate of over 1500 beats per min (~25 beats per second)
[read more: ow.ly/hYOj30nSnTY]
2085
When thunderstorms form in wintry conditions they can sometimes give rise to heavy downpours of snow with lightning often called 'thundersnow'. This was captured by Sam Roback in Buffalo, New York, on Nov. 18, 2022
[read more: buff.ly/39Tb7W9]
2086
Some quantum physics
[full story: buff.ly/3i1moe1]
2087
In case you have some difficulties to see my tweets, I used a shadowban test tool and the result seems to be positive. While I'm not sure it's accurate, the diffusion of my tweets radically decreased after the 2 blocks I had for (not) violating 'non consensual nudity rules'
2088
In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’. It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion
[video from The Curiosity Show: buff.ly/36DvRNs]
2089
Kleptoparasitism, in which an individual steals food from other individuals of the same or a different species, is frequent in birds.
This paper explores the phenomenon among corvids: buff.ly/3qWB9Qh
[📹: buff.ly/3tdL8mS]
2090
You may never have heard of the plant Brassica Oleracea, but six vegetables you can find in any grocery store and you eat on a regular basis are actually all from this one plant and they're all human made products of selective breeding [source, read more: buff.ly/3F8yOXl]
2091
There's one account that has been systematically copying & pasting my tweets and @gunsnrosesgirl3's ones. In the space of a couple of days, they uploaded a huge proportion of our accounts. We work for free, they use affiliate links to earn money 1/🧵
2092
And what's worse, all the work done for free in order to make some order with sources and context, is taken for earning money. It took years for us to reach our respective number of followers, while this account, using this unfair method, made almost 1M followers in 2 months.
2093
In case of doubts, the account we were talking about is @fasc1nate
2094
This is what the Micrasterias rotata algae cell division looks like
[read more: buff.ly/2JquGGi]
[📹, Nikon Instruments Inc.: buff.ly/2sEtb0O]
2095
The evolution of the scrollbar
[Sébastien Matos: scrollbars.matoseb.com]
2096
A chameleon having a live birth. This happens only to some species that are "ovoviviparous", meaning that the babies grow inside the mother for a few months and are then born live
[source: buff.ly/3EYm60v]
2097
Compared to other bears, polar bears are huge. The largest polar bear, reportedly weighing 1,002 kg, was a male shot at Kotzebue Sound in Alaska in 1960. This specimen, when mounted, stood 3.39 m tall on its hindlegs buff.ly/32TCgC1 [photo: buff.ly/2qoRvWy]
2098
The bizarre floral appearance of Hydnora africana seems almost extraterrestrial, but in fact it is finely adapted for pollination in its arid habitat. This plant, resident of southern Africa only emerges from the soil to flower
[source, read more: buff.ly/3VpbsoZ]
2099
How researchers use drones to catch viruses blasted out of whale blowholes to overcome difficulties in sampling
[paper: buff.ly/2Ju0pcZ]
2100
Here's a time lapse video of the LEGO version of the James Webb Space Telescope.
[Visit: bit.ly/LEGOJWST]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links