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This spectacular display of a great white shark jumping out of the water is called breaching. They do that during hunting, to stagger and catch fast moving prey.
This clip was filmed by Chris Fallows in 2020
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When you cast a visible light shadow you also cast a thermal shadow. But while the former disappear when you walk away, an infrared thermography shows you the latter staying on the wall.
[source: buff.ly/3RsB6r4]
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A chameleon having a live birth. This happens only to some species that are "ovoviviparous", meaning that the babies grow inside the mother for a few months and are then born live
[source: buff.ly/3EYm60v]
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Flow Wall Desk by Rober van Embricqs acknowledges the potential how to combine functionality with art: a piece of functional art that builds on the design track record of transformations in space
[read more: robertvanembricqs.com]
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In order to avoid expensive irrigation systems, this farmer lifted the spraying pipes using hydrogen balloons
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An incredibly rare black deer spotted in the forest of the Barycz Valley, Poland in 2021. Most estimates guess that only about 1 in every 500,000 deer is melanistic
[read more: buff.ly/3R326gl]
[📹 Jakub Wencek: buff.ly/3Kd6AyZ]
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The village in Germany whose houses are built on giant tree stumps (but not real trees).
[source, read more: buff.ly/3PmVgkP]
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A peacock can fly despite its large size. Its tail is up to 2 meters long, about 60% of its body length. Despite these odd proportions, the bird flies just fine, if not very far [read more: buff.ly/2V2ZNQC-] [clip by Harsha Narasimhamurthy]
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The red-capped manakin's "moonwalk" to impress the ladies
[source and full video: buff.ly/2uA52f9]
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Fun fact: the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost part of Brazil [read more: buff.ly/2Q73lxK]
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Circles growing in place
[source: buff.ly/3WFKhao]
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In the past 10 years, Japan has moved at a tremendous pace to install elevators at subway and train stations for the disabled and the elderly. These wheelchair accessible elevators are unique to Japan
[read more: buff.ly/3G1WQXW]
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Born 135 years ago #Today, Srinivasa Ramanujan had almost no formal training in pure mathematics but made substantial contributions to analysis, number theory and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable bit.ly/2zhi5ix
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The orchid species overall produces many amazing flowers but probably none is more so than the Anguloa Uniflora which has flowers that resemble swaddled babies
[read more: buff.ly/2tvLypf]
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The white raven that was thought to be a legend but inhabits a coastal segment of British Columbia, Canada. These ravens are not albino, but leucistic, or lacking any of several different types of pigment (not simply melanin) buff.ly/2IpD6N2 | buff.ly/2EgBxyB
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Gustaf III Airport airport located on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy is a very peculiar one and possibly one of the most dangerous airport in the world
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The Arctic hare can run up to 60 kilometres per hour, but it's when it's sitting that we like it more bit.ly/1ODbJPQ
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Hitting and launching molten iron into the air with a shovel is a very dangerous activity and must not be tried anywhere, but (with the proper protection equipment) it can produce surprising beauty
[source, SUSHI RAMEN【Riku】: buff.ly/3KcE5zz]
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European starlings are exceptional mimics, including human speech. Their ability at mimicry is so great that strangers have looked in vain for the human they think they have just heard speak. Jabber is 5 years old
[source: buff.ly/33Z9V3G]
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The Glacier National Park in Montana, on the border with Canada, is home to more than 700 lakes. One of the most striking feature of some of these lakes is the presence of a variety of colored rocks & pebbles just below the water surface and on the shores buff.ly/2IpbcEA
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The scale of a marble quarry can be so huge that an excavator might look like a toy [more about Carrara's marble quarries: buff.ly/2YkDN59] [source of the gif: buff.ly/2Z9t2lB]
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Correlation does not equal causation, but this specific correlation is particularly stimulating
[source, read more: buff.ly/2INud0t]
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The "Still Face" experiment was conducted at UMass Boston in 2009. A mother denies her baby attention: a short period exposure can lead to bad, but repairable socialization. But in prolonged situations can be irreversible [video: buff.ly/3Cu0NkV]
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Called the pioneer of the Perceptual Art movement, artist and sculptor Michael Murphy works with anamorphosis. This is one of his most famous works, "The Immigrant"
perceptualart.com
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Fallingwater, the modern house prototype built by Frank Lloyd Wright over a waterfall in 1935
[read more: buff.ly/3e66mZ4-]
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Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links