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It's called the Ames Room, and it was invented by American ophthalmologist Adelbert Ames, Jr. in 1946 to screw with your brain
[read more: buff.ly/2qcbbZM]
[📹 La casa De La Ciencia, Seville: buff.ly/2ydLpMo]
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The Stepping-Feet Illusion features two rectangles apparently moving like a pair of stepping feet, but they're actually moving at the same constant speed.
The illusion is broken when the striped texture is removed.
[source, read more: buff.ly/3eSzghH]
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Bridge building has been one of the tests for second year University of Canterbury civil engineering students in Christchurch for nearly 30 years. Graduates have to build a bridge that supports 2 people, but collapses with 3
[📹: buff.ly/3Hj2F4n]
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Fractal spirographs are generated by tracking a series of circles rotating around each other as shown in this animation by PantheraLeo1359531
[source: buff.ly/3LcfOf7]
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Lobsters' color comes from astaxanthin, which binds to other proteins. Depending on those bonds, the shell gets a color. Blue lobster are extremely rare, with in about 100 million
[read more: buff.ly/3U7Vsb3]
[📹 : buff.ly/2LEgCdo]
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Icelandic black sand is found on beaches near a volcano and consists of tiny fragments of basalt
[read more: buff.ly/3wLzKhQ]
[📹 Lorenz Weisse: buff.ly/3wUa18q]
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After months of chasing starlings, photographer James Crombie captured this remarkable shot of the flock as it swelled into an enormous bird-like murmuration
[read more, author's site: inpho.ie]
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Bats and dolphins evolved echolocation in the same way (down to the molecular level). An analysis revealed that 200 genes had independently changed in the same way and this is an extreme example of convergent evolution [read more: ow.ly/xkfk30nysHa]
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Instagam's Taitan21 mainly takes pictures of the scenery of Mt. Fuji around Fuji City and Fujinomiya City every day. This is a majestic view of Mt. Fuji surmounted by lenticular clouds while reflected in a lake [source, more pictures: buff.ly/3RNAzkv]
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The EVNautilus team of researchers spotted this elegant Cirroteuthid octopus dancing at a depth of around 1,600 meters. It measured an estimated 20 centimeters across and entertained the team for more than five minutes [source and full video: buff.ly/30aoz08]
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These cape lappet caterpillars respond to human voice and noise.
[📹 Overberg Renosterveld Conservation Trust: buff.ly/3iAR9a3]
[read more: buff.ly/3vN5LHb]
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When owls hunt their prey in the snow, typically leave evidences like this, marking the spot where a small rat or a squirrel has been caught
[source: ow.ly/Hrd830q1vlZ]
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A journey to the heart of matter by CERN
[read more: buff.ly/3gjMxE6]
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Ontario photographer Cody Evans took roughly 10,000 photographs during the lake-effect storm on Nov. 19, 2022 on Lake Eerie. One of them resulted particularly striking and he title it "Poseidon's Wrath"
[source, read more: buff.ly/3XERoRA]
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Richard Feynman's Lectures on Physics are timeless: their main strength is in demonstrating how to reason about physics. You may not know all the lectures are completely online:
Volume 1: feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_toc.html
Volume 2: feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_toc.html
Volume 3: feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_toc.html
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Andreas Wannerstedt crafts unique 3D sculptures and mesmerizing looping animations. His synchronised animations have often been described as “oddly satisfying”, since the overall effect evokes a hypnotizing feeling [Instagram: buff.ly/2Bd8obg]
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Volcanic lightning is always impressive to see, but it's not just an awesome photographic subject. It could also yield clues about the Earth’s geological past. This picture was taken by Takehito Miyatake during an eruption of sakurajima volcano in 2014 buff.ly/2POMMGg
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This impressive tornado was filmed by Amie Kuxhaus in Martin, Soth Dakota on June 30, 2019
[read more: buff.ly/3d2T1Gi-]
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This drawing ruler allows a multifunctional design through a series of shape and a rotating protractor [read more: buff.ly/3JYlOaM]
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Photographer Peter Maier captured this jaw-dropping timelapse of a cloudburst over Lake Millstatt in Carinthia, Austria [source, full video, HD: buff.ly/2Mv5n7G]
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Inspired by solar furnaces, this parabolic mirror concentrates light onto a focal point, and can be consequently used for more mundane tasks in place of industrial purposes
[how it works: buff.ly/3vZapSz]
[📹 buff.ly/3vZJYvU]
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The Ruppert Archaeopteryx is a high-wing, single-seat, foot-launchable microlift glider
[read more: buff.ly/3pxI6ae]
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How old are tech companies (2023)?
TikTok: 7
Snapchat: 12
Uber: 14
Twitter: 17
Facebook: 19
Tesla: 20
Google: 25
Mozilla: 25
Netflix: 27
Amazon: 29
Apple: 47
Microsoft: 48
Intel: 55
HP: 84
IBM: 112
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The Blue Java is a hardy, cold tolerant banana cultivar known for its sweet aromatic fruit, which is said to have an ice cream like consistency and flavor reminiscent of vanilla
[read more: ow.ly/SqUn30o6i14]
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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]
[IG: buff.ly/3P6HPXq]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links