1176
The magnitude of difference between 1 million and 1 billion is not that intuitive and can be illustrated with this example of the time scale:
- A million seconds is 12 days.
- A billion seconds is 31 years.
- A trillion seconds is 31,688 years
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1177
When cayman's eggs fail to hatch, cayman moms crack the eggs with their mouth, breaking the hard shell first and then piercing the inner leathery membrane, until the young cayman is born
[full video: buff.ly/2LSoU3t]
1178
The flowers of Geum triflorum (or prairie smoke) are arranged in umbels of 3 to 5 flowers: their ring of many stamens sometimes produce nice shapes
[read more: buff.ly/2tP0Vbs]
1179
An amazing light show captured in the redwoods forest in California.
[📷 Mitch Crispe: buff.ly/3tqFZqI]
1180
The Blunt-headed Burrowing Frog (Glyphoglossus molossus), alo known as balloon frog, is found in south east Asia and lives in tropical seasonal forests, moist savanna, intermittent freshwater marshes
[read more: buff.ly/39aIrHi]
[📷 koshin0919: buff.ly/2KgkR3c]
1181
The pink colour of Lake Hillier, Western Australia is believed to be due to the presence of the organism, Dunaliella salina, an unicellular micro-algae that contains red/pink pigment
[📹, HD, Jaimen Hudson: buff.ly/3ChPvSA]
1182
Designers at BACA Architects came up with this idea of a house floating when the land is flooded. It is located on a small island on the River Thames, in south Buckinghamshire, UK [read more: buff.ly/3fNYM9B]
1183
The Asch conformity experiments (1951-1956)
people conform for two main reasons: they want to fit in with the group and because they believe the group is more informed than they are
[read more: buff.ly/3AMy8GY]
1184
A recent study shows that mushrooms can actively change the temperature surrounding their gills, which creates air currents that ultimately lift spores several centimeters into the air, where they can hitch a ride on stronger winds [full paper, video: buff.ly/3cQ9eu8]
1185
A brilliant Star Wars Trench run kinetic LEGO sculpture
[full video by JK Brickworks: buff.ly/2jfmjlv]
1186
Ruyi Bridge is a footbridge in Taizhou, Zhejiang China, made up of three bridges. It is a pedestrian bridge which was built to cross the Shenxianju Valley and it features a glass-bottomed walkway
[read more: buff.ly/3EZsRzM]
1187
Wunderpus photogenicus was discovered in the 1980s & only officially described in detail in 2006. This one strolling among garden eels, appears to compose a sci-fi movie scene
[read more: buff.ly/3xEMAih-]
[📽️ Gail Kukula: buff.ly/3lpgRwJ-]
1188
This "relatively accurate" prediction about future telephones was made by Mark R. Sullivan, president and director of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. in 1953
[read more: buff.ly/2K0HjKy]
1189
This dramatic time-lapse movie by the Hubble space telescope shows Uranus, its moons and the seasonal changes on the planet
[source: buff.ly/3gQIoVl]
1190
#Today is the 222nd anniversary of the discovery of Ceres, the first asteroid found in 1801: the number of observed asteroids in the inner and outer Solar System is now beyond one million bit.ly/1VqmQf1
1191
Flow Hive is a beehive designed to allow honey to be extracted simply by turning a lever: the hive does not have to be opened and the bees are not disturbed as in normal extraction
[read more 1: honeyflow.com]
[read more 2: buff.ly/302Vvet]
1192
This photo of two brothers in Sequoia National Park was taken moments before they got struck by lightning in August 1975 and it was used for years to warn about the dangers of pending lightning strikes [full story: buff.ly/2H3m1IA]
1193
Estimates state that 7% of all young gators are eaten by larger cannibal alligators. This is what happened in Florida, where a great egret narrowly escaped after an alligator was ambushed by a much larger one
[📹 Travis Akers: buff.ly/3MShM5a]
1194
Have you ever wondered how music was typed before computers? With music typewriters
[read more: buff.ly/3B7bj1O]
[📹 pbuttner, illustrating a rare 1953 music typewriter: buff.ly/3KqkVIb]
1195
The green vine snake is a slender green tree snake found in India: mildly venomous, it's also quite spectacular in its contorsions & appearance. This is a famous picture on one of them by Suhas Premkumar
[read more: buff.ly/2FpszPX]
[📷 buff.ly/3tF2ia2]
1196
Killer whales are notable for their complex societies only comparable to elephants & higher primates. Unlike any other mammal, killer whales live with their mothers for their entire lives & as they can reach age 90, as many as 4 generations travel together buff.ly/3vRtvYf
1197
The solvent based paint removers work by breaking the bond between the object and the paint, swelling the paint and weakening the adhesion to the surface. Historically, they used dichloromethane, banned by EU in 2010
[read more: buff.ly/3SX9ECR]
1198
This scale model shows how mangrove forests protect the coast. Mangrove forests are an essential component of the coastal defense systems in many places in Vietnam. This simple model makes it very easy to understand [paper: buff.ly/2KFID40] [gif: buff.ly/2VUWr0J]
1199
When scientists put slime mold over a map of Tokyo, with food used to represent urban areas, and after a day the mold created a network nearly identical to Tokyo's rail network: all this without any brain
[read more: ow.ly/7CA730o4Sjk]
1200
The parking assist feature on modern cars might seem like a recent innovation, but if Brooks Walker had his way we would have been using it since the 1930s
[source, read more: buff.ly/3ErlD3l]
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