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Watch the stunning aerial view of the Nebelhorn Peak in Germany like you have never seen it before: through an Eagle's Eyes
[full video, HD, Red Bull: buff.ly/2G7Ns4H]
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This carved mahogany writing table is said to have been crafted specifically for use by King Carlo Alberto of Sardinia (1798-1849). It has a surprising number of unusual secret compartments
[source, m.s.rau_: buff.ly/3sgBLRQ]
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The story of "water man" Patrick Mwalua, the man who has been buying and transporting water for long distances to Tsavo West National Park to quench wild animals' thirst
[read more: buff.ly/3QCwmON]
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Population growth from 10,000 BCE to today
[video by Robert Rohde, HD: buff.ly/3egX55U]
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Here are some sounds you'll recognize if you were alive in the 1980s. All of the sounds are created by interacting with these then-everyday objects.
[more videos by rerunthe80s: buff.ly/3spG9OB]
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Cephalopods' intelligence allow them to understand and solve even complex problems, like this not easy test of opening a jar from the inside
[read more: bit.ly/2gElV25]
[source: ow.ly/P4sG30o4Erz]
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San Francisco, Market Street, April 14, 1906: four days before the M7.9 earthquake and fire.
[full video, NASS + process of restoration, upscaling, colorization: buff.ly/3pmvUc5]
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The superb lyrebird is an Australian songbird. It is one of the world's largest songbirds, and is renowned for its elaborate tail and courtship displays, and its excellent mimicry
[📹 World Birds]
[read more: buff.ly/3ddF9IK]
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NickFlightX has captured on video the perfect synchronized touchdowns at SFO (San Francisco Airport) with a United 737 MAX 9 and Alaska E175 landing together.
[more clips by the author: buff.ly/3uUEjq6]
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You can make a glass sing with your fingers, but can you play Sugar Plum Fairy by Tchaikovsky? The Glass Duo did it, among the other impressive performances [full video and more: buff.ly/37cetm7] [the physics behind the sound: buff.ly/36UkOCo]
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Bastien Dausse's "Moon" is a show imagined as a living and acrobatic exhibition, conceived as an accumulation of surprising antigravity devices. This one simulates the lunar gravity.
[source: buff.ly/3HOAqbT]
[video: buff.ly/3OnOTOe]
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These excerpts from a 1980 documentary about Czech animator Karel Zeman show how some of Karel’s special effects were achieved in the movies he made between 1947-1980
[full video + read more: buff.ly/3LAKWnn]
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Artist Insane 51 created an art called "Double Exposure 3D" which uses 3D glasses to show different aspect of the same mural painting. This one was made in Bristol, UK [source, more artworks: buff.ly/3QKLXMm]
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Photographer Hannie Heere was photographing barn owls when she captured an unusual shot of a baby barn owl running across grass. Barn owlets start flapping their wings at seven weeks, making short flights around the nest at eight weeks
[📷 read more: buff.ly/3jAmoQ4]
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The black heron hunts with a method called canopy feeding, using its wings like an umbrella, creating shade that attracts fish. This video by @leedsbirder shows one filmed in Gambia [read more: buff.ly/3CzNrld-] [video, HD: vimeo.com/303166907-]
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Odd as it may seem, this occurred in 2020 in Ogre, Latvia and it's another example of how smart are corvids. This crow was literally explaining to a hedgehog that it had to cross the road
[read more: buff.ly/2SKBBQH]
[📹: buff.ly/3nJ5cbK]
twitter.com/cryptogemhodl/…
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The Mandelbulb is a 3-dimensional fractal: since a canonical 3-dimensional Mandelbrot set does not exist, it is possible to construct Mandelbrot sets in 4 dimensions using quaternions & bicomplex numbers
[read more: buff.ly/2KyGDuj]
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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/🧵
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Auto-targeting fire sprinkler systems are intelligent fire extinguishing equipments used in interior large spaces
[read more: buff.ly/2TzaR6R]
[📹: buff.ly/3fEcMVi]
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Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat. Following rain, a thin layer of dead calm water transforms the flat into the world's largest mirror, 129 km across [read more: buff.ly/37Ugxma-] [source, David Houncheringer: buff.ly/370vKSj-]
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As it passed below the south pole of the Moon on Nov 7, 2014, JAXA's Kaguya spacecraft spied the Earth in the distance [source: bit.ly/2fUJLVl]
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The curious story of the public drivers from San Luis Potosí, Mexico, who were put on bicycle to know how bad it is to pass by scraping cyclists
[read more (ES): buff.ly/3Gfzoqy]
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An unusual scene in the wild: a tiger approaches a pool for an afternoon dip, but it carefully checks the depth of the water before relaxing [source, full video, National Geographic: ow.ly/EhGw30n8w8m]
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This video by Pure Life shows how traditional Uzbek bread is made. The doughs are baked upside down, where the heat keeps them in place and the bakers know exactly when to grab them out of the oven before they fall off [full video: buff.ly/3FMoN2i]
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If you think dragons are just imaginary creatures look at this draco lizard. While it's certainly smaller than you probably expect, it's nothing short of impressive
[source, read more: buff.ly/3BYfUo7]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links