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Watch the rise of human cities, beginning with [arguably] the world’s first city in 3700 BC and continuing up to the present
[full version with slider + read more at metrocosm.com: buff.ly/3gsWRGm]
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The fruit Monstera Deliciosa causes severe throat & skin irritation due to oxalic acid unless 100% ripe. Once the green outer scales fall off it's safe to eat and tastes like a mix of pineapple, banana & coconut. Its name literally means Delicious Monster ow.ly/Wz4J30nAIni
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Egyptians invented papyrus paper at least 5,000 years ago, revolutionizing the written word. Today, just one village still makes the paper and this Business Insider video documents the art and the industry of this ancient craft [full video: buff.ly/3tgtagH]
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These are Camellia Japonica flowers, a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. Perfectly formed, their rows are packed with luminous overlapping petals that gave them the monicker of 'pink perfection' [read more: buff.ly/2GSrG7G]
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The story of Emile Leray, the man who survived the desert by building a motorcycle from his broken car. When his Citroen 2-CV broke down in the Sahara in 1993 he tore the car apart and built a motorcycle from the parts to escape dying from the elements: buff.ly/3Xflhrs
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The spinner dolphin is famous for its acrobatic displays in which it rotates around its longitudinal axis as it leaps through the air. It can make up to seven spins in one leap
[read more: buff.ly/2MlizQi]
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In this video, YouTube's Brick Experiment Channel tests a Lego car against different obstacles and improving it until it becomes a capable climber [full video, HD: buff.ly/3x0U3rz-]
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Have you ever wondered how an athlete who competes in the javelin throw trains? This video by athletics.world shows German champion Johannes Vetter at work on a training device
[source: buff.ly/3ADMMA5-]
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Watch the incredible moment as Wounda, one of the more than 160 chimpanzees living at the Jane Goodall's Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center in the Republic of Congo, was released in the wild
[full video: buff.ly/3xFT2pR]
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Female lovebirds build their own nest from many materials, their favorite is palm leaves veins, which they tuck into their rump feathers for transporting them more efficiently [read more: buff.ly/3C4Z57F-] [source: buff.ly/3qrFAUE-]
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Tambja morosa, also known as gloomy nudibranch lives primarily in the Indo-Pacific area
[read more: buff.ly/3uS7yKe]
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This video by MWSU Chemistry Department uses balloons dipped in liquid nitrogen to demonstrate Charles's Law, which relates the volume of a gas with its temperature
[read more: buff.ly/3wKwHGy]
[full video: buff.ly/3wHhxC8]
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Elijah Secrest is an artist from Columbus, Ohio and works mainly in metals. Among the things he makes, there are these impressive mechanical masks
TikTok: buff.ly/3CzPnxL
Instagram: buff.ly/3PWikqG
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Very little is known about 19th century Italian sculptor Giovanni Strazza, but his marble sculpture Veiled Virgin’s striking transparency is testament to his virtuosity
[read more: buff.ly/2VAoDZG]
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Hemiscyllium halmahera is a species of bamboo shark discovered in 2013. It uses its pectoral fins to walk along the ocean floor [full video by Mark Erdmann: buff.ly/36t2yOQ]
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Here's how deep humans have dug underground in the past 100 years
[video: buff.ly/2GT4uSI]
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Monotremes are the only mammals left that lay eggs. This video of newly hatched baby platypuses and echidnas is one of few that documents this incredible process
[video: ow.ly/H4aY50AnbTT]
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Ocean sponges are multi-cellular animals that don’t walk or swim. They eat by filter-feeding. How powerful are their filters? With the help of non-toxic fluorescein dye, we can see how highly effective ocean sponges are as filters of ocean water [source: buff.ly/2HTzuoQ]
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A sod roof, or turf roof, is a traditional Scandinavian type of green roof covered with sod on top of several layers of birch bark on gently sloping wooden roof boards buff.ly/2ULfwll [photo: Faroe Islands by İlhan Eroğlu, IG: buff.ly/2NeE0Dk]
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A snake drining water.
Snakes don't lap up water with their tongues & they don't simply suck water through a hole in their mouths. They use a sponge-like capillary action
[read more: buff.ly/3APzH8g]
[📹 Mike Richardson: buff.ly/3PU9hXs]
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The cardiac cycle and the ECG, explained
[source: bit.ly/2gM4b14]
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Artist Sergi Cadenas realizes three-dimensional oil paintings which vary depending on the viewer’s perspective, introducing a kinetic, disturbingly suggestive dimension to our vision of reality
[more artworks: buff.ly/3itsmEJ]
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Why math love stories are never happy stories
[source, u/theroundpanda: buff.ly/3Mf2nvJ]
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The story of Lélia and Sebastião Salgado, the couple who worked since the 1990s on the restoration of a part of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil, helping plant 4 million saplings [read more: buff.ly/2GE5RX4]
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This is what Soyuz astronauts see through their window upon a reentry in the atmosphere. The video was recorded by Mike Hopkins at the end of Expedition 38 in 2014 [source, read more: buff.ly/3pFHxfK]
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