2401
According to historian Yuval Noah Harari, it's been 125,000 generations since the emergence of human species, 7,500 since human physiology reached its current state, 500 since the agricultural revolution, and only 20 since the scientific revolution: ow.ly/7xYC30nZIDb
2402
Ed Fairburn repurposes old maps, transforming them into beautiful, highly-detailed portraits, merging landscape and humanity, reminding us that we are a product of our environment & vice versa
[site: edfairburn.com]
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2403
The spectacular sight of mountain goats defying gravity on a vertical dam wall in Italy, and all because they have a craving for some of Earth's elements essential to life
[full video by BBC with @ProfBrianCox: buff.ly/3sHnxry]
2404
On the geometry of a Möbius strip a right pointing arrow points left after one trip around, a second trip restores the original orientation. This mathematical property is called non-orientability
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2405
Hydra is a genus of small, fresh-water organisms of the phylum Cnidaria and class Hydrozoa. Biologists are especially interested in Hydra because of their regenerative ability — they do not appear to die of old age, being virtually immortal
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2406
The commercial aviation industry has changed a great deal since it first became an integral part of the way we travel. This is what the Interior of an airliner looked like in 1926
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2407
The British Museum has a 3700+ year old clay tablet that is the world's oldest known complaint letter.
1750 BC problems.
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2408
If you ever need to empty a bottle of its liquid (perhaps you’re cleaning the bottle) then there is a trick to do it quickly and it involves a whirlpool. This video demonstrates how
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2409
Borgund Stave Church in Norway was built sometime between 1180 and 1250 AD. It's part of of a group of medieval churches almost only present in Scandinavia, built with wood only and without using a single nail through timber framing
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2410
Photographer Mandy Wilson has captured an extraordinary image showing a newborn dolphin riding on mom’s back around Penguin Island, near Perth, off Western Australia's coast – and seemingly smiling in delight
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2411
Where snow meets the sea
Taken on the western coast of Japan in the San’in Kaigan GeoPark by photographer Hisatoshi Matsumura, this is a beautiful photo that shows where biomes collide
[site: hisatoshimatsumura.com]
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2412
Part of the watermelon farming operations include keeping them cooled off as they go from harvest to shipment. This farmer took advantage of their buoyancy to both transport them & keep their temperature controlled
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2413
This clip shows, with beauty and elegance, two fluid properties:
- Laminar flow: buff.ly/2FvvQCv
- Surface tension: buff.ly/3UBTUp1
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2414
This optical phenomenon has been defined as a parhelion, but it should probably be defined (more correctly) as a subsun, because it appears as a glowing spot when observed from above
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2415
Unlike other mammals, camels' red blood cells are oval. This makes them better at withstanding high osmotic variation without rupturing when drinking large amounts of water: a 600kg camel can drink 200 L of water in 3 minutes
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2416
A photographic worthy natural phenomenon occurs every year in Lake Baikal. Masses of broken ice look like shards, transparent and shining in a turquoise color, caused by the slow and unequal pressure in the main body of the packed ice
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2417
There's a place in Morocco where you can find goats perching on these trees' branches. Yes, goats on trees
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2418
Nimo Planet wants its glasses to replace your laptop when you're on the go. Nimo is a mini-computer that sits on your head and gives you six virtual screens to work with when you're away from your desk.
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2419
When throwing paint turns into a masterpiece.
Paul Kenton is a contemporary artist, acclaimed for his cityscape paintings which capture the unique energy of cities across the world
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2420
This is a Luna moth emerging from its pupa.
Thi smoth is extremely beautiful but the elongated tails of the hindwings are also useful: they confuse the echolocation detection used by predatory bats.
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2421
This graphic explains how Nomura's jellyfish multiply: from fertilized larvae, to polyps, to an incredible transformation that sees polyps walking and multiplying into trillions
[source and full video: buff.ly/2yjiExj]
2422
The Line is a smart city in Saudi Arabia that will have no cars, no streets, and no carbon emissions. When completed, it will be 170 km across, will preserve 95% of the nature within Neom & is planned to have 1 million residents: buff.ly/3Id2AMC
2423
These two mounds are in the Louisiana State University campus & they are structures older than the pyramids: one has been dated to be the among the oldest known human structures on earth. Yet they were used for tailgate parties until 2010
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2424
Alces alces, known as moose in North America & elk in other regions of the world, can reach a height of 2.3 m (7ft 6") from hoof to shoulder (i.e. head & antlers are not in the count)
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2425
In 1862 Charles Darwin received a flower from Madagascar with the nectar located in an extremely deep crevasse. He predicted the existence of a moth with an extraordinarily long tongue to reach the nectar. Xanthopan morganii was discovered 150 years later ow.ly/3hmm50B6Brz
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