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The library of Wiblingen Abbey near Ulm, Germany captivates with its unique ceiling fresco & decorated figures. It is considered a masterpiece of rococo style and one of the most world's beautiful libraries
[📹 baroqueblockbuster: buff.ly/3FKVH5J]
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Flatworms have a peculiar characteristic: when sliced in pieces, each piece will grow into a complete flatworm, just like the original one
[source, read more: buff.ly/3wVFCX2]
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The smell of rain is pure chemistry [read more: buff.ly/2yDTy7r]
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Sodium Citrate is the secret ingredient to make any cheese into smooth, creamy nacho cheese sauce. Coincidentally, Sodium Citrate's chemical formula is Na₃C₆H₅O₇ [rad more: ow.ly/JYzH30npn62] #FoodScience
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If you're old enough, you will recognize this sounds and appreciate the spectrogram of a dial up modem handshake. The full video's caption reports a verbal translation/breakdown of the process
[Full video, Scotty H: buff.ly/3zVFdom]
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A photographic magic folding cube
[step by step tutorial: buff.ly/3EONAEG]
[mathematics: buff.ly/3XK9wcx]
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This impressive video of a lightning apparently striking two cars, is a proof you're relatively safe not thanks to the tires, but because a car is a Faraday cage
[read more: buff.ly/3bSqKkL]
[📹 LSC/Michaelle Paul Whalen, Florida, July 1, 2022]
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Photographer David Canales captured this outstanding photograph while kayaking on Alaska’s Prince William Sound. A seagull attacking an eagle that has another seagull in its grasp [source, read more: buff.ly/2FoUGyQ]
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This 2018 video shows how a harbor pilot boards a moving 200 m long ship moving fast into a sea of ice
[video: buff.ly/2IxKIRt]
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This bonsai tree, currently housed in the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, D.C, was planted in 1625, it's 397 years old and survived the bombing of Hiroshima, still growing today [read more: buff.ly/2H0sy6W]
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The blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) is a marine bird native to subtropical and tropical regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is easily recognizable by its distinctive bright blue feet [read more: buff.ly/2Gxvibz]
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Porcupines' quills take on various forms, depending on the species, but all are modified hairs coated with thick plates of keratin. This video by Mariette Landman shows what a formidable defense they constitute
[video, HD: buff.ly/3DKOe3y]
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What does a baby rhino sound like? Certainly not anything like we thought they would. If we had to describe their sound, it would probably be a cross between dolphins and when you pinch the neck of a balloon to let the air out [full video by DoctorDuni: buff.ly/2p2JB4t]
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Comparison of the height of the most known trees, from the apple to the tallest tree in the world
[full video, HD, Red Side: buff.ly/3dHRLrO]
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The saddleback caterpillar has tubercles that contain threatening hollow spines connected to a gland that secretes venom that, when broken, is released into predators
[read more: buff.ly/3SvSZqe]
#SundayFunday
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The common name "Vietnamese mossy frog" arises from its mottled green and brown skin that resembles moss growing on rock, and it's an effective form of camouflage
[read more: buff.ly/2q2duOO]
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Plants do actually move: we just don't live in the same time reference frame.
This 2-day time lapse shows the so called plants' nastic movements, mostly due to changes in turgor or changes in growth
[source, houseplantjournal: buff.ly/3HBFC1o]
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Yamaha Motoroid has been conceived as machine that behaves like a living creature. Its primary technologies are an image recognition AI system, self-balancing technology, and a haptic human-machine interface
[video, HD: buff.ly/3vw1Gop]
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You may not believe that your cat was born with a predatory instinct because it's a so playful critter, but it looks like cats are responsible for the global extinction of 33 animal species & responsible for the deaths of 6.9-20.7 billion mammals annually buff.ly/2s8mL91
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The Fourier Transform explained in one sentence [source and read more, by Stuart Riffle: buff.ly/3ILfsdD]
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In this video on NightHawkInLight, Ben demonstrates how a "Lubor’s lens" works. This is a type of Fresnel lens that takes the light coming into it from the back at obtuse angles and projects it forward in the front of the lens
[video: buff.ly/3lBAxgO]
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The story of Dr. Khurshid Guru, who created a nebulizer on an Air Canada flight, using a water bottle, a cup, oxygen, and an adult inhaler to help an asthmatic toddler breath [read more: ow.ly/UVYa30nc83t]
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Someone said intelligence is the ability to adapt and Tony Ann gave a majestic example of this by turning his neighbor's annoying car alarm into art
[source, more videos: buff.ly/3RS1KKu]
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The mineral pyrite also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS₂. It can be found in nature with almost perfect cubic formations like these ones
[read more: buff.ly/2Llz1Lw]
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You can hear the words «Green Needle» or «Brainstorm» only based on which one you think about.
This is an auditory illusion, or a false perception of a real sound [explanation: buff.ly/3ItCQfg]
[📹: buff.ly/3vJDKQH]
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