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This is what a bear looks like without hair. Dolores, a spectacled bear at the Leipzig Zoo in Germany in 2009 had this condition caused by a wrong diet. When the diet was corrected the fur grew back completely within 4 months
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Mount Taranaki National Park has an almost perfectly circular boundary: the change in vegetation is so sharply delineated that the photos from above show an incredibly neat base [read more: buff.ly/2jp3r3B]
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Pilot David Evans was flying between Minco and Tuttle, Oklahoma in June 2021, when he found himself side-by-side with a landspout tornado during its formation
[read more: buff.ly/3UyIgwb]
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This Japanese technique to fold shirts in 2 seconds seems to find a secret topology hidden inside clothes
[full video, HD, DaveHax: buff.ly/37sSeXf]
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This candle holder is made up of a clear tube that collects all the melted wax, and once the candle is fully melted, it automatically creates a new candle by forming a new candle from the melted wax [source, read more: ow.ly/rBEI30nwF42]
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Masahiko Kimura is a widely recognized bonsai master, author of this remarkable Hinoki forest planting, sold at the 38th annual Nippon Bonsai Taikan Exhibition in 2018 for ¥1,800,000 (~US$15,800) [clip: buff.ly/3tQHmOn] [more about the author: buff.ly/2Z9SKXf]
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Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur. The stripes are like fingerprints and no two tigers have the same pattern. A tiger's stripes help to break up the outline of its body and make it hard to see [read more: buff.ly/3h0yfmN]
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Fletcher Capstan Table is a round table which, when rotated at its outer perimeter, doubles its seating capacity and remains truly circular [read more: fletchertables.com]
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In New Mexico, just east of Albuquerque, you can drive east on Route 66 and hit a rumble strip that plays "America the Beautiful" if you drive at the speed limit, 45 mph, turning the wheels of your car into a phonograph [read more: thesingingroad.com]
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This clip by the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) explains quantum levitation and quantum locking as a consequence of the Meissner effect
[read more: buff.ly/3xfw2PO]
[source, HD: buff.ly/3apBuGQ]
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Giant sequoia specimens are the most massive individual trees in the world. Record trees have been measured at 94.8 m tall & 9 m in diameter. Outdoor adventure photographer Quin Schrock captured the scale vs a human [source: buff.ly/3GNmT3s]
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Baby crocodiles sound like laser guns.
The chirps are made to communicate with their mother and the siblings in the same nest
[Brad Valle, Dragonwood Wildlife Conservancy: buff.ly/2otlKdo]
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While at Cat Lake, British Columbia, XYSM, a DJ from Vancouver realized that every time he played a loud note on his guitar, the insects populating the lake's water, reacted to the sound
[read more: buff.ly/3vN5LHb]
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There are no plants in this picture.
pink: orchid mantis
brown: ghost mantis
dark green: hooded mantis
light green: leaf insect
grey: cat-eyed mantis
[source: buff.ly/3Q0XfLI]
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The beautiful harmony of Shaolin Kung Fu is captured with an amazing bird-view from above, in this video by BBC Earth
[full video: buff.ly/2HggQXM]
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San Francisco, Market Street, April 14, 1906: four days before the M7.9 earthquake and fire.
[full video by NASS + process of restoration, upscaling, colorization: buff.ly/3pmvUc5]
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These incredible salt formations can be seen in the south, southwest, and central areas of Iran. The best examples are found in the Zagros mountains that run parallel to Iran’s coast on the Persian Gulf [read more: buff.ly/3ksLL4c]
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Eggplant tastes like something you’d think of as a veggie, but it’s technically a kind of fruit. And more specifically, it's a berry by botanical definition. Here's a time-lapse from seed to eggplant in 87 days
[📹 Boxlapse: buff.ly/3T9V3n8]
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In the heart of this grove among the mountains of Mexico, half a billion Monarch butterflies lie sleeping. This spy hummingbird ventures to witness a breathtaking swarm
[📹 John Downer Productions: buff.ly/2VUVLbQ]
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This is what eye rubbing looks like in MRI.
keratoconus (and possibly other ocular conditions) is caused by excessive eye rubbing
[full video, Damien Gatinel: buff.ly/31xl0Yk]
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This is an animated representation of all the multi-planet systems discovered in the Milky Way galaxy by NASA Kepler Space Telescope as of October 30, 2018. The systems are shown together at the same scale as our Solar System (dashed lines) [source, NASA: buff.ly/2KC5oHQ]
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A musical road is a road which when driven over causes a tactile vibration and audible rumbling that can be felt through the wheels and body of the vehicle. This one is in Hungary
[read more: buff.ly/3UttoOl]
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Louisa's multiple sclerosis related spasticity before & after wearing the Exopulse Mollii Suit. Just 1 hour of near full-body stimulation improves her balance, gait, & stability, and helps make everyday tasks easier for her
[more: buff.ly/3O5j7Gr]
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It's the only example of cooperative male-male displays ever discovered in nature. Surprising as it may sound, the Blue Manakin dominant male has a team of subordinate males who help him attract females buff.ly/3axr1mT [📹 Kenny Neal: buff.ly/3dCsSZM]
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Squeezable lightbulbs like Incredibulb use A19 LED lights and flexible silicone, which keeps them shatterproof throughout use. The rubberized material also ensures that the bulb is never hot to touch
[read more: theincredibulb.com]
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