951
There's an amazing tabletop mountain in South America, with sheer 400 meter high cliffs on all sides: Mount Roraima [read more: bit.ly/2cf33mN]
952
Student Esmée Kramer realized a life-like dinosaur costume from PVC pipe and foam. She made it in her free time between work and her Systems Engineering studies [source & full video: buff.ly/3065nW9]
953
Visualization of Newton's first law with dirt on a tennis racket, in slow motion.
[source of the gif, IG's philip_tennis: buff.ly/3mk0rqm]
[Newton's first law explained: buff.ly/3pI8csh]
954
Unlike other mammals, camels' red blood cells are oval. This makes them better at withstanding high osmotic variation without rupturing when drinking large amounts of water: a 600kg camel can drink 200 L of water in 3 minutes
buff.ly/31jk3QO
[📹 buff.ly/2E9lDMB]
955
Science communicator and video producer Hashem Al-Ghaili has released a video envisioning EctoLife, the world’s first concept of artificial womb facility
[full video: buff.ly/3Bv5nzX]
956
On the Equinox day, March 21 and September 23 of every year, everyone visiting the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in the capital city of Kerala, will see the setting sun aligning through each of the window openings in almost five-minute intervals [read more: buff.ly/3lqryNY]
957
The impressive molt of a cobra mantis (Choeradodis rhomboidea)
[📹 kripticantids: buff.ly/3IlCvhA]
958
The 12-Faced Holoscope is a type of kaleidoscope based on truncated Platonic solids by artist Gary Allison. Through the symmetry of the reflections, these triangles appear as an infinite array of tetrahedrons [source, read more: buff.ly/2MUvhmo]
959
Scientists found that only some bees can figure out how to do this on their own. But 60% of inexperienced bees watching this, learned the new skill
[read more: buff.ly/2XGvsFZ]
960
Watch carefully: you'll see the accelerometer in the back of the cabin register zero g when the plane goes in free fall
[📹 zbestwun2001: buff.ly/3dARyHh]
[NOTE: No animals were hurt in the making of this video]
961
An interesting fact about Fibonacci numbers is that you can use them to convert miles to km & viceversa. If you need to convert from km to miles, you need to find the preceding Fibonacci number. Bonus: there are 1.609 km in a mile, almost the Golden ratio ow.ly/VG1v30nghZt
962
Thailand’s Moken sea gypsies can see twice as clearly underwater by controlling the size of their pupils. But what was generally considered an automatic reflex for the rest of us, is now thought to be something that any child under 5 could learn how to do buff.ly/2oBKVur
963
Elephant seals rarely cross paths with humans but when they do, they can really throw their weight around
[source, full video, BBC Earth: buff.ly/2IEAmeD]
964
Ice shards floating out to sea along the coast of Greenland
[📹 Luke Stackpoole: buff.ly/3VA0b67]
965
Researchers from Samsung Labs have developed a way to create high-resolution avatars, or deepfakes, from a single still frame photo or even a painting. Called MegaPortraits, they can create megapixel-sized avatars from simple single-frame starting points: buff.ly/3oo36iW
966
NASA only uses 15 digits of π for calculating interplanetary travel. At 40 digits, you could calculate the circumference of a circle the size of the visible universe with an accuracy that'd fall off by less than the diameter of a single hydrogen atom ow.ly/rhmO30o4k7G
967
Artist Markos Kay's “aBiogenesis” reimagines the origin of life in a rendering of the lipid world hypothesis: the first self-replicating, cell-like objects were composed of of fatty acids that could not dissolve in water
[video: buff.ly/3IugWMb]
968
Of the 118 elements that make up everything—from the compounds in a chemists arsenal to consumer products on the shelf—44 will face supply limitations in the coming years
[read more: ow.ly/Oytp30q2LZp]
969
Exemplary representation of the Ohm's law
[read more: buff.ly/3PFvoCj]
#SundayFunday
970
Allopreening is the mutual preening between two or more birds, practiced to reduce instinctive aggression when birds are in close contact. During breeding, allopreening helps strengthen the social bonds
[📹 Hardik Rathod: buff.ly/3XAetVh]
971
Despite their bulky and heavy appearance, hippos' subcutaneous fat layers are quite thin. The 2,000-kg giant is mostly made up of muscles, and 6-cm thick skin. This anatomical model by Jun Huang visualizes its muscular structure
[source: buff.ly/3S62N8M]
972
Hinamitetu is the hand-crafted creation of a Japanese maker who has been running the little robot through a variety of gymnastic challenges. This is #26, dealing with floor gymnastics [videos: buff.ly/3vW9GkS]
973
As this remarkable picture by photographer Hemant Kumar shows, flying fox young bats ride clinging to their mother's breast with their mouth, even though some young are two-thirds the weight of their mothers & quite capable of flying on their own [source: buff.ly/300N3vb]
974
This is the note that Jimmy Carter placed on the Voyager
spacecraft in 1977 [read more: bit.ly/2fhGXzu]
975
Borgund Stave Church in Norway was built sometime between 1180 and 1250 AD. It's part of of a group of medieval churches almost only present in Scandinavia, built with wood only and without using a single nail through timber framing
[read more: buff.ly/2LachQV]
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