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The Golden Mechanical Horse is a is a kinetic sculpture by artist Adrian Landon, commissioned by and displayed at the Daxton Hotel, in Birmingham, Michigan
[read more: buff.ly/3SMBBgW]
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Before 3D printing there was the photo sculpture, a process invented in the XIX century for the reproducing subjects in 3-dimensions by taking a series of photos in the round. This is a 1939 footage
[📹 British Paté: buff.ly/3BYRmcW]
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The fruits of Melocactus are pink and resemble the shape of pepper fruits. The fruits of this genus are edible, and in the wild they are frequently dispersed by lizards and birds
[read more: buff.ly/3cnCPPl]
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After working as a kite maker for over 30 years, Feng Tsan Huang of Taiwan has created his masterpiece: the bike kite. It's 2 meters tall and weighs just 0.8 kg, thanks to carbon fiber beam and polyester panels [source: buff.ly/2JUFvkx]
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A swan landing on water. An ability acquired in millions of years of evolution.
[read more: buff.ly/3YntZ7C]
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Haruki Nakamura brings his artwork to life through the time-honored tradition of paper crafting. Using paper engineering, he constructs whimsical creatures and dolls that move in surprising ways
[read more: buff.ly/2F3mkFj]
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The 'flight' of the mobula ray is made to attract a mate: pure beauty at the origins of life [source, full video, BBC: buff.ly/2of5UlR]
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"Confusing perspective"
[📹 Larry Carlson: buff.ly/3qaubXW]
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This is the (logarithmic) timeline of an expanding universe. We live at the 3rd line from the left and all stars will disappear in 10¹⁴ years (4th line). Then there will be 10¹⁰⁰ year of just black holes and then, the Dark Era
[read more: buff.ly/3f37dfv]
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Since octopuses lack bones, they can contort their bodies to fit into tiny spaces. This makes them excellent escape artists, as confirmed by this one
[read more: buff.ly/3I7ICUs-]
[📹: buff.ly/3Scjpw7-]
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Brewinng Turkish coffee is a kind of thermodynamics activity that requires hot sand
[read more: buff.ly/3qMKw5q]
[📹 Night Bazaar in Karasu, Sakarya, Turkey, National Geographic]
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Panulirus ornatus is a large spiny lobster with 11 larval stages. It migrates annually from the Torres Strait to Yule Island in the Gulf of Papua in order to breed
[read more: buff.ly/3C7uLg2]
[photo: buff.ly/3wbjMhV]
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To prevent drying out in the hot sun of the dry season, the giant monkey frog secretes a form of organic ‘sun screen’ and applies it to its body
[source, full video, BBC: buff.ly/2lhLK6Q]
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On every equinox day, March 21 and September 22, everyone visiting the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in the capital city of Kerala, will see the setting sun aligning through each of the window openings in almost five-minute intervals [read more: buff.ly/3lqryNY]
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Artist Kenichi Kanazawa might be well defined as a 'sound sculptor' as in this clip he gives a visual demonstration of the power of sound to put order into chaos
[video: buff.ly/2X9PDRt]
[read more about Chladni plates: buff.ly/3A5Y13d]
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Artist Kohei Ohmori spends more than 200 hours on each project with a striking attention to details. Ohmori's hyperrealistic designs are drawn with ultra-thin lines and remarkably steady hand
Instagram: buff.ly/3CRv8va
YT: buff.ly/3RU81ED
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Cystisoma is a crustacean that lives between 600-1000 m deep in the ocean. Its body is totally transparent: only its eyes are pigmented. This one has a brooding pouch full of orange eggs
[read more: buff.ly/3cs0caB]
[📹 Alejandro Damian-Serrano]
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The Giant Alaskan Malamute is a selectively bred Malamute that exceeds 70 kg in weight & 70 cm of height, originally bred to pull heavy goods between cities throughout Alaska. They have been recorded to pull loads up to 500 kg
[📹: buff.ly/3Rbvf9O]
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The Golden Mechanical Horse is a is a kinetic sculpture by artist Adrian Landon, commissioned by and displayed at the Daxton Hotel, in Birmingham, Michigan
[read more: buff.ly/3SMBBgW]
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Alsomitra macrocarpa has seeds which use paper-thin wings to disperse like giant gliders. The seeds, which are produced by a football-sized pod, can glide hundreds of metres across the forest [read more: buff.ly/2xzxEqt] [full video: buff.ly/2EDymnV]
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To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
—Stephen Hawking
[📹 Specoolar, HD: buff.ly/3PoWgVu]
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Photographer Axel Bocker took a glorious dragonfly close-up in Germany and earned a spot as a finalist in the 2021 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards [source: buff.ly/3kYtApd]
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Located in the town of Caviahue, Argentina, Salto del Agrio is a 60 meter high waterfall, which drops to a small green pool surrounded by yellow and red basaltic rocks
[read more: buff.ly/3TyAiSg]
[📹 buff.ly/3Tm5Kn6]
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Shoebill stork are normally silent, but they sometimes perform bill-clattering displays by clapping the upper & lower jaws, producing a loud hollow sound like a machine gun, or tribal drums beating
[source, Matsue Vogel Park: buff.ly/3fFVbtI]
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Marg Leehane, owner of Great Bear Lodge in Port Hardy, British Columbia, decided it was worth waking up the guests at 6 a.m. to show them two humpback whales in the bay [source, HD: buff.ly/3JKlZ9M] twitter.com/Gabriele_Corno…
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