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To pay tribute to all the enslaved people buried in cemeteries with no name, artist Craig Walsh put a face in the trees to honor their souls in an installation in Charlotte, North Carolina, called "Monuments"
[read more: buff.ly/3ChbM2N]
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Dinoflagellates are bioluminescent organisms found in the surface layers of the sea, responsible for the sparkling phosphorescence seen at night in disturbed water
[read more: buff.ly/3A92WBp]
[📹 Patrick Coyne: buff.ly/3Aa5Vd0]
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WindPal is a practical solution for outdoor lovers to charge their devices. It’s a lightweight (less than 1 kg), portable wind turbine that generates power. And it can be assembled in less than one minute [video: buff.ly/2JaV6ff]
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This is the raccoon dog, the only extant species in the genus Nyctereutes. It's a close relative of true foxes and the only canid known to hibernate during the winter [read more: ow.ly/kEtj30nrQoa]
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A self-produced film entitled "Sancy: the last ascent" by Justin Labattou is the source of this eagle equipped with a GoPro camera flying over the Sancy mountains in Puy-de-Dôme, France [video: buff.ly/3wqyqk9-]
706
Graduating art student Shun Onozawa has created this mesmerizing device named “Movement Act” where a golden formula allow all 16 balls to continuously move through it without ever colliding
[read more: buff.ly/3yMtQiF]
707
This video 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
[📹 Pure Life: buff.ly/3FMoN2i]
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Designer Joe Doucet invented a flat wind turbine that can be incorporated into walls, rather than harnessing the wind with huge blades suspended on tall towers. The turbine wall is made up of a grid of square panes that spin along 25 axes [read more: buff.ly/3G4e3xW]
709
The potato paradox is a mathematical calculation that has a counter-intuitive result.
"You have 100kg of potatoes, which are 99% water by weight. You let them dehydrate until they're 98% water. How much do they weigh now?"
The surprising answer is 50kg
buff.ly/2B5t3xS
710
The golden eagle is considered one of the most powerful predators. Yet, in this video filmed by Terra Mater & Omar Penker on the European Alps, a chamois shows how, seriously risking its own life, it finally saves it [full story: buff.ly/3c2IN8n]
711
When hunting, owls swoop silently from the sky. To show just how impressive a feat this is, BBC Earth set up this experiment comparing owl flight to that of a pigeon and Peregrine Falcon
[full video, BBC: buff.ly/3eSbcvr]
712
Watch carefully: this is a monkey that gets upset when he's paid less than another monkey for doing the same job
[find more, full video: buff.ly/2pbzLta]
713
A remarkable photo taken by Rick Geiss from Gulf Shores, Alabama in July 2016, showing a majestic cumulus congestus cloud with a microburst pouring a rain shaft over the ocean
[source, read more: buff.ly/2tiJkIC]
714
There are many challenges associated with living on the International Space Station. Things that are easy to do on Earth where there is gravity can be difficult in space. @AstroKarenN shows how she washed and rinsed her hair in microgravity [full video: buff.ly/2N699E3]
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The story of the tiger that in 1997 was wounded by a poacher who also stole part of its kill: the tiger found the poacher's cabin, destroyed his belongings, waited at least half a day for him to return, then killed and ate him
[read more: buff.ly/2IhMG4w]
716
Merging art with AI. Using the new Outpainting capability,DALL-E 2 imagined how the landscape could look like between famous impressionist paintings from Van Gogh, Monet, Munch and Hokusai
[source, read more: buff.ly/3F65vrL]
717
How Oklahoma farmer Carl Barnes uncovered a brilliant strain of corn now called Glass Gem Corn
[read more: bit.ly/2eVoqqR]
718
A pyramidion used to be the uppermost piece of an Egyptian pyramid or obelisk. It was generally made of diorite, granite, or fine limestone, then covered in gold or electrum. Very few pyramidia have survived into modern times. This is one of them [more: buff.ly/334VWDg]
719
This kinetic wave sculpture by Ross McSweeney is made from mostly all wood. Each wave is driven by a cam that moves the wave both horizontally and vertically [full video and more: buff.ly/2CQsR7d]
720
Very effective anamorphic floor art
[📹 source: buff.ly/3wVcz65]
721
Manufacturing ropes is an old, north German activity that is still practiced today. Tugboats use this kind of huge ropes to pull large ships. This is where traditional handwork merge with industrial production
[full video (DE), NDR Doku: buff.ly/3dKBRtp]
722
Dolphins enjoy surfing ocean waves and it's very likely they have been doing this for millions of years. No suprise if they kindly ask you to get out of the way
[read more: ow.ly/llJU30nrOki]
[📹 Lucas Englert: buff.ly/3fge4pt]
723
The hammered dulcimer is a percussion-stringed instrument which consists of strings stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board, played with a mallet hammer.
[read more: buff.ly/3P0u7pl]
[📹 Ted Yoder: buff.ly/2EhLzmW]
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«Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking»
— Carl Sagan
Last interview with Charlie Rose, May 27, 1996
[full interview: buff.ly/3BaU4f0]
725
Diver Kendall Roberg built a rig with marker caps attached to his GoPro to show how colors change as you go deeper underwater, because water selectively scatters and absorbs certain wavelengths of visible light [video: buff.ly/2SdfUq5] [more: buff.ly/2n7iODf]
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