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The story of Dennis Ritchie, the man who invented C, co-created Unix, and is largely regarded as effectively influencing every software system we use on a daily basis. His death was largely ignored, overshadowed by Steve Jobs' death, one week before buff.ly/2pauBB2
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James Harrison is a blood donor whose unusual plasma composition has been used to make a treatment for Rhesus disease. He made 1173 donations throughout his lifetime, which are estimated to have saved over 2.5 million unborn babies from the condition ow.ly/ssIl30oabuI
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A native group of people living in the Oceania subregion called Melanesia, is famous for their beautiful dark skin & naturally blonde hair. The blonde trait is developed via the TYRP1 gene, which is not the same that causes blondness in European blonds ow.ly/u7HF30np7mi
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How a mechatronics engineering student invented a “mobile airbag” that automatically deploys when you drop a device, protecting it from harm [read more: ow.ly/2AvB50nZ4X5]
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How your body stops bleeding when you are injured. The coagulation process
[📹 designmate.com: buff.ly/3payJhz]
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Valonia ventricosa is one of the largest known unicellular organisms, if not the largest. This means that what you see in the image, a sea-algae that can get to 5 cm in diameter, is actually a single living cell
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Strange as this may sound, when a bee hive becomes too full, bees will form a "senate" comprised of more experienced bees to seek a new location. When the location has been found, they vote on it by dancing as a collective until a consensus is reached buff.ly/2PPpd1O
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A Fleischmann's glass frog (Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni) can often be spotted lying very flat against a leaf looking more like a leaf with a pair of eyes
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An accessory cloud can often be seen just above Mount Teide’s summit. Such cloud formations are always attention-getting, such as this lenticular cloud captured by Bartosz Wojczyński, staying in the same spot for hours [full video: buff.ly/35BSa98]
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Yes, this really happened: this is a robot trying to escape from children's abuse
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There's a mountain in the Tianmen Mountain National Park, Zhangjiajie, China, with a marvelous natural arch with a stairway leading to it
[read more: bit.ly/2uHvsrh]
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This animation using a domino analogy, shows why speed of sound is faster in solids, slower in liquids and slowest in gases
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The Banff Wildlife Crossings Project was implemented in Banff, Alberta. Combined with fencing to keep the animals off the road, the structures have reduced animal-vehicle collisions in the area by more than 80% (>96% for elk and deer alone)
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This is the level of detail you can get from a 365-Gigapixel picture
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The sunken hull of the City of Adelaide steam ship, burnt in 1912, has become an artificial island hosting a variety of plant and bird life approximately 300 metres (330 yd) off the shore of Cockle Bay, Australia [read more: buff.ly/2E8TaAj]
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Smart-X conductive thread visualizes how we are all connected with Connecting Thoughts, a promotional video for Japanese infrastructure company Kandenko
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The nilgai or blue bull is the largest Asian antelope and is endemic to the Indian subcontinent. They stand 1–1.5 metres (3.3–4.9 ft) at the shoulder and their maximum weight recorded is 308 kilograms [read more: buff.ly/30hvV2e]
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Ayam Cemani is an uncommon and relatively modern breed of chicken from Indonesia. They have a dominant gene that causes hyperpigmentation (Fibromelanosis), making the chicken entirely black; including feathers, beak, meat, bones, and internal organs buff.ly/2GEwTQZ
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Slow motion (mirrored) art
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A lightbeam book's lightbeam is not a real light. It's literally a cardboard cutout inserted behind a see-through page, but it frames a nice optical illusion, not only for kids
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This is the size of the star Betelgeuse compared to our Solar System size
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As soon as hatched, a juvenile flamboyant cuttlefish is capable of producing the same camouflage patterns as adults
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Humpback whales produce songs that can travel at least 10 km. They are so complex they are divided into layers: "sub-units", "units", "subphrases", "phrases" and "themes"
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A particularly beautiful murmuration of starlings captured in Piazza della Repubblica, Rome, in January 2022
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Japanese monkeys learned to wash sweet potatoes in fresh water. After some generations they started to carry the potatoes to the sea. Their motivation might have been to get the salty taste: a first strong evidence of cultural behavior in nonhuman animals buff.ly/3yqORxI
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