1151
These fabolous Star Trek effects with the starship Enterprise seen from from various angles, come from a drone light show held in Sydney this year
[full video, HD by Dave Cue: buff.ly/3AnQM9M]
1152
Kirie is the Japanese art of paper-cutting. A negative space is cut from a single sheet of white paper and then contrasted against a black background to reveal a rendering. Veteran kirie artist Masayo Fukuda has been practicing the art form for 25 years ow.ly/GI9w30n8uL3
1153
The Ruppert Archaeopteryx is a high-wing, single-seat, foot-launchable microlift glider
[read more: buff.ly/3pxI6ae]
1154
The city is alive: this site allows you to watch the dynamics of Manhattan's population, hour-by-hour: manpopex.us
1155
These two clips show how a hot & cold weather front interact when they come in to contact with each other due to different densities [source 1, Canada Science and Technology Museum: buff.ly/35gkgZm] [source 2, Simon Foster: buff.ly/3s4L5su]
1156
Ctenophora, commonly known as comb jellies, are generally predators, but they can also be prey to the same phylum. Watch a comb jelly bump into another and eat it [read more: buff.ly/3pmkBlD]
1157
Scientist Brian Greene demonstrates weightlessness during freefall
[source: buff.ly/3vDE4Qn]
[explanation: buff.ly/3QiOgHI]
1158
Lightning can assume various shapes. This is possibly one of the most stunning, in a picture by Jean-Yves Villa captured in 2016
[source, HD: buff.ly/3EO5DfK]
1159
There's a giant sculpture in New Zealand that gives the illusion of being a cartoon piece of paper on a hilltop
[read more: bit.ly/2zNG5Ld]
1160
«Necktie knots are inherently topological structures; what makes them tractable is the particular manner in which they are constructed»
[T. Fink, Y. Mao, «Tie knots, random walks and topology»: buff.ly/3L85fKn]
1161
Wolves live, hunt, raise young and spend most of their lives in packs.
This video by Reddit user u/Alloth- shows an evocative migration of a pack through the snow
[read more: buff.ly/3GHFgsr]
[source: buff.ly/3iegFC3]
1162
It looks like a drawing, but it's a seawater drop extracted with a zooplankton net and magnified 25x, showing bacteria, larvae, zooplankton and worms [read more: bit.ly/2w5PZFu]
1163
Gerd Schuster co-author of "Thinkers of the Jungle: The Orangutan Report", took this photograph of a male orangutan in Borneo on the island of Kaja, clinging to overhanging branches, trying to spear a passing fish [source: buff.ly/2YxE5Dr]
1164
The story of Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the man who survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima. Despite the explosions left him temporarily blind and burned, he jumped on a train to Nagasaki, arriving just in time for the second bomb. He survived that one too buff.ly/3Mf4ek8
1165
The F-16 Fighting Falcon has a thrust-to-weight ratio greater than one, providing power to climb and vertical acceleration. In this clip, you see one climbing to 15,000 feet in 20 seconds
[📹 Murat ÖZPALA: buff.ly/3FUCbnd]
1166
In the morning of September 28th, Ian became a category four hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 250 km/h (155 mph). This is Ian's lightning-packed eye wall
[source, more, RAMMB-CIRA: buff.ly/3Cr4bi1]
1167
This snowboard with LEDs changes light patterns when you perform certain tricks or movements, detecting its orientation [video: ow.ly/IutE30n71MB]
1168
Grand Lisboa is a 47-floor, 261-metre-tall hotel in Sé, Macau, China. Its peculiar shape lends itself to particularly evocative shots that mix old architecture and sci-fi like views, like in this photo by Paul Tsui buff.ly/2qR8YDi [source: buff.ly/30YAJw9]
1169
This square mile of water in the Lembeh Strait, Indonesia has some of the strangest and most unique marine life on the planet [source, full video by Shark Bay Film: vimeo.com/59168847]
1170
Strong winds creating the reverse waterfall in Maharashtra, India
[📹 Yash Mayekar: buff.ly/3H6qP1N]
1171
The strange story of this unusual train line in Baku, Azerbaijan, crossing a 7 lane motorway
[video, explanation: buff.ly/3W07B2E]
1172
Often shared as Koko's final message to humanity delivered before her death, this clip is actually a public service announcement addressed to COP21 for which the gorilla who learned the sign language received a script
[fact check: buff.ly/3Aw8FT7]
1173
This rotating circles tricks you into believing the shaped are 3D, but they're not
[location, Marwell Zoo, Winchester, UK]
[source: Jessie Younghusband School]
1174
Pure samples of hydrogen, nitrogen and five noble gasses are subjected to the high frequency pulsed field of a miniature Tesla coil. Each gas has a characteristic breakdown voltage and emission spectrum
[source, read more: buff.ly/3frLyOD]
1175
You may not know that the derivatives of the position vector (x) with respect to time have interesting names:
Velocity (v) = dx/dt
Acceleration (a) = d²x/dt²
Jerk (j) = d³x/dt³
Snap (s) = d⁴x/dt⁴
Crackle (c) = d⁵x/dt⁵
Pop (p) = d⁶x/dt⁶
[source: buff.ly/3bLn29h]
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