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Artist Timur Zagirov has created a beautiful rendition of Van Gogh’s famous self portrait, using 425 polished, colored wooden blocks of pine. The curious thing about it, is that you see a Van Gogh only if you squint or you look at it from afar [source: buff.ly/37edj9o]
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A gimbal is a device consisting of a pivoted ring or rings capable of swinging freely while mounted on a fixed frame. This is possibly a much more mundane usage of it than you might expect: grilling [source, Gualberto Elizondo: buff.ly/2NPYCke]
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Popularly nicknamed "St. Michael in peril of the sea" by medieval pilgrims, Mont-Saint-Michel can still pose dangers for visitors who avoid the causeway. The tides vary greatly, at roughly 14 meters
[📹 Ryan Shirley: buff.ly/3JRJI7W]
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Doppelmayr Garaventa, an Austrian company, made this monorack to transport people and materials with a compact yet powerful design and it's available with different drive variants: petrol, diesel and electric [full video (DE): buff.ly/3pEn3DW]
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This photo taken from Phares des Baleines, Île de Ré, France, shows crossing swells, consisting of near-cnoidal wave trains. The interaction of such near-solitons in shallow water may be modeled through the Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation [read more: buff.ly/3vOLdgk]
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This comparison between a shark's brain and a dolphin's brain, shows why dolphins are deep thinkers [source of the photo: buff.ly/3Phrmy9]
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This mesmerizing aerial view of hundreds of sheep being herded shows the beauty of a chaotic motion and how it approximates the behavior of a fluid
[source and full video, Tim Whittaker: buff.ly/2UTPiwQ]
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To celebrate the opening of a factory in China in 2012 Nissan teamed with artist Paul Veroude to create "Journey in Motion", a Nissan Teana taken apart to its individual pieces
It gives an idea of the complexity of a car
[video: buff.ly/3QFzslw]
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Smoke rings (or more precisely, steam rings) are rare, spectacular events seen in volcano plumes
[read more: buff.ly/2p5QXis]
[video by Geoff Mackley: buff.ly/2SXaFeN]
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Ever imagined how big black holes can be? They are true monsters of the cosmos: in this video Alvaro Gracia-Montoya made a comparison of their size
[full video, HD: buff.ly/3JS2jkc]
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The common basilisk is endemic to Central South America, where it is found near rivers and streams in rainforests. It is also known as Jesus lizard, for its ability to cross a surface of water by moving quickly before sinking
[📹: buff.ly/3C3PUaT]
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Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven’t forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.
-- Carl Sagan
[NASA Spacewalk EVA 64, Exp. 61, January 2020: buff.ly/2Zpbfu6]
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How many stars we can see in the night sky with the naked eye (Andromeda galaxy excluded)? About 9,096, or 0.000004% of all the stars in the Milky Way [source, read more: buff.ly/33VEEMK] Reddit user u/KSPoz visualized that in this chart [source: buff.ly/3CnPucP]
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The armadillo girdled lizard is a species of lizard in the family Cordylidae and its size can range from 7.5 to 9 cm (3.0 to 3.5 in) [read more: buff.ly/2DISYHC] [📷 buff.ly/3C481hg]
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This algorithm can reconstruct an audio by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in a video. In this experiment, intelligible speech was recovered from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag photographed from 15 feet away through soundproof glass ow.ly/SIdV30n37Hg
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The largest dam removal project in the U.S.: a successs story that brought the ecosystem of Washington's Elwha River to thrive again [source: buff.ly/2pslh93]
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The Arctic hare can run up to 60 kilometres per hour, but it's when it's sitting that we like it more bit.ly/1ODbJPQ
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What are those dots between Saturn's rings? Our Earth & Moon. Just about 5 years ago, because the Sun was temporarily blocked by the body of Saturn, the robotic Cassini spacecraft was able to look toward the inner Solar System [processed by @kevinmgill buff.ly/2XEib2i]
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A drone is probably the best tool to observe a controlled demolition [a silo in Aalborg Havnefront, Denmark, 2017. Full video: buff.ly/2ZHsMwf]
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Dendrosenecio kilimanjari is a giant groundsel found atop Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. The giant grounsels of the genus Dendrosenecio evolved, about a million years ago, from a Senecio that established itself on Mount Kilimanjaro [read more: ow.ly/A2PL50Bdw1F]
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Vincent Bal is "shadowologist" and filmmaker: he uses the shadows of ordinary objects to complete his artwork [this and other amazing works on his Instagram account: buff.ly/2tsOhi4]
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Listen to this sound
It comes from the depth of the oceans and from millions of years of evolution. Ultimately, the ancestral song of a mother protecting her baby
[📹 Paul Nicklen + read more: buff.ly/3zT063l]
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Adam Pickard took DALL-E 2's inpainting feature & 57 prompts, asking the AI to draw its impressions, then combined the results in Adobe After Effects obtaining this: an AI version of Eames' «Powers of Ten»
[read more + original: buff.ly/3QBWs4A]
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Artist Greg Edwards uses Mental Canvas to push the boundaries of space and time, taking us on a graphic, immersive journey through the infinite, zooming space of his fantastical imagination [author's Instagram account: buff.ly/3xzayvT]
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This spectacular display of a great white shark jumping out of the water is called breaching. They do that during hunting, to stagger and catch fast moving prey.
This clip was filmed by Chris Fallows in 2020
[source, read more: buff.ly/3pUspe5]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links