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The average life span of a wombat in the wild is estimated to be 15 years and 20 years in captivity. Patrick, a wombat of the Ballarat Wildlife Park in Australia, lived for 31 years, which is like a human that lived for about 130 years [read more: buff.ly/2qXwSOr]
1477
American black bears regularly climb trees to feed, escape enemies and hibernate. Four of the eight modern bear species are habitually arboreal. This photo perfectly captures the essence of this relationship with trees
[source: buff.ly/3VuE7sY]
1478
Calculation of π, from rain falling on two wooden plate sensors, one circular and one square: the number of raindrops that landed on each plate during a storm was counted with an Arduino and π was calculated as the ratio [source & credits: buff.ly/2Dqy0gN]
1479
Cuttlefish and cephalopoda in general are authentic masters of disguise: they can change appearance and shape in seconds bit.ly/2vx5Npg [source of the gif: buff.ly/30uul2z]
1480
Single-shot compressed ultrafast photography at one hundred billion frames per second allow to capture light bouncing in a mirror [full paper: buff.ly/2jl5Goy]
1481
This BMW was presented at CES 2022 to showcase a technology that enables a car to change its exterior colour, using an all-electric iX to debut this innovative paint changing technology
[source, read more: buff.ly/3EVlSnF]
1482
Simon Berger's unique sculptural language explores the depth of his material through striking and cracking the glass he works on with a hammer. This was obtained with hammered and layered glass sheets
[site: simonberger.art]
1483
This article was published on April 18, 1963, in the News-Journal, a newspaper out of Mansfield, Ohio which tells us the concept of a cellphone existed long before you held one in your hand
[read more: buff.ly/3wH1Olg]
1484
A mechanical demonstration of the chaos theory with the chaotic magnetic pendulum
[read more: buff.ly/2S96AZb]
[📹 wesphysdemo: buff.ly/2t1ouxL]
1485
Created in 2005 by Ryota Kanai, the so called healing grid has less regular pattern at the peripheral parts. If you stare at the center, the irregularities start to heal themselves because your brain strongly prefers to see regular patterns
[source: buff.ly/3tZVmol]
1486
This is a real photo of a male seahorse
[read more: buff.ly/3VvVAS1]
[📷 Nick More, Scuba Seraya, Bali: buff.ly/3VRaPVh]
1487
The lowland nyala or simply nyala, is a spiral-horned antelope native to southern Africa. As a herbivore, the nyala feeds upon foliage, fruits and grasses, with sufficient fresh water. A shy animal, it prefers water holes rather than open spaces buff.ly/347t7ZH
1488
Watch how the Australian Bat Clinic cares for orphaned baby bats: feeding, grooming, attending to their medical needs, and making them feel warm and safe by wrapping them like a baby bat burrito [full video: buff.ly/2vuwTLq]
1489
The story of Masako Wakamiya, the woman who became the oldest app developer at 84 years old, from when she got her first computer in 1997 to her first app developed when she was 82
[video story: buff.ly/3VALMXA]
1490
Spinning a gyroscope & putting it in its own box is an always surprising trick, but also useful to visualize the conservation of angular momentum. The box rotates in the opposite direction vs the disk's one
[📹 IncredibleScience: buff.ly/3PNXz28]
1491
Despite the descriptions of penguins report that they have a 'short neck', they actually have a long neck, covered by fat. On the other hand, one of the etymology alternatives for penguin is the Latin word 'pinguis', which means 'fat' or 'oil' ow.ly/AzHI30nrNvB
1492
What's the difference between an alligator (left) and a crocodile (right)?
The most visible one is alligators have a U-spaced rounded snout that is wide and short, whereas crocodiles have a longer pointed, V-shaped snout
[read more: buff.ly/3E63MiR]
1493
This video shows some interesting physics concepts: the levitation with compressed air obtained with the Coandă effect and Newton's third law of motion, plus the apple explosion triggered by the centrifugal force
[📹 Slow Mo Guys: buff.ly/3QGiHad]
1494
It’s the colouration that makes the painted bat (Kerivoula picta) remarkable. Its body is covered in downy orange fur, while its wings are striped in highly-contrasting black and orange; a strikingly beautiful combination [source, full video, read more: buff.ly/3FlsaNT]
1495
«The kid's guide to the Internet» is a 1997 informational videotape reviewing the online services available at the time, quite interesting to make a comparison 25 years later
[full video: buff.ly/3phhgn2]
1496
Anodizing titanium generates an array of different titanium colors, for which it is sometimes used in art and jewelry. The color formed is dependent on the thickness of the oxide, which is determined by the anodising voltage buff.ly/2Py1DUF [gif: buff.ly/3u3QG05]
1497
You may have noticed that:
13 x 13 = 169 and 31 x 31 = 961
which makes the two operations true even if read in reverse.
But this is not the only case.
buff.ly/2G6Pkga
1498
American woodcock videos often show them bobbing and rocking, and it's believed this dance may create enough vibration that it will disturb earthworms, so that the birds can forage them
[read more: buff.ly/2ZH231Z]
[📹 Kelly Cain: buff.ly/2Vj041W]
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The giant Pacific octopus is the largest octopus in the world: the largest individual on record weighed an impressive 270 kg and measured 9 m across in length. Along with 8 arms, an octopus also has 3 hearts and 9 brains buff.ly/2wrH1aY [image: ow.ly/dEzX30nBCbM]
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Before smartwatches, there was the Seiko UC-2000 wrist computer. It could store 2K of data, tell the time, and perform calculator functions. It made its debut in 1984 [read more: buff.ly/3vRejMX]
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