1601
Imagine being inside a painting by Van Gogh. This 3D video by 幻维数码 Motion Magic is designed to make you experience in 360° the famous Starry Night by the dutch artist
[full video: buff.ly/3fMcaJL]
1602
This clip showing a bonobo playing with her baby granddaughter tells us that, despite there aren't normally grandparents around when an animal is born, there are notable exceptions
[read more: buff.ly/2J1nPHm]
[source: buff.ly/3F8FpRO]
1603
This video by Artur Homan shows a parasitic cuckoo chick at work. It'll throw the other eggs out of nest and the predisposed parental urge of the victim birds will ensure it'll have food and care
[source, full video: buff.ly/357GexV]
1604
Current benchmarks for don & doff Richard Browning's Gravity Jet Suit, speed bearing ams and demonstration of the helmet steered sidearm
[full video, HD: buff.ly/3UEFmoW]
1605
21 years ago #Today, astronaut Frank Culbertson was on the International Space Station during Expedition 3 and witnessed the September 11th attacks from space [read more: buff.ly/3hleJE4] #September11
1606
Gustaf III Airport s a public use airport located in the village of St. Jean on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy. This video by Sam Watt shows how airplanes land there, with the addition of (recurrent) windy conditions [full video: buff.ly/3pZCDay]
1607
This is what a muffler for howitzers looks like. These photos were taken at an artillery range in Germany and the vehicle using the giant suppressor is an M109G 155mm self-propelled howitzer [read more: ow.ly/ViS850ApVho]
1608
Kingfishers have binocular-like vision with restricted eye movement, which allows for tracking fish underwater. They can compensate for reflection and refraction and can judge water depth very accurately [read more: buff.ly/3beyM3G] [full video: buff.ly/30Y3XhL]
1609
Volcom teamed up with Stab to install a 30-meter floating docking anchored in the middle of an A-frame peak in Bali, Indonesia to demonstrate how surfers can easily run and hang loose on perfect waves rather than paddling. It's called "The Dock" [video: buff.ly/2l7GKBD]
1610
Claudia Bueno’s installations are countless white line drawings meticulously intertwined and superimposed on glass panels. When illuminated, they mimic scores of nautilus spirals, coral, vines, and botanics that sway and throb in glowing masses [more: buff.ly/3sDOP1B]
1611
The eruptions of Mount Etna in Sicily are often spectacular and part of the show always comes from the ash columns: this is an impressive explosion captured in December 2015 photographer Fernando Famiani [source, read more: buff.ly/2KlkBLA]
1612
This TikTok user DYE2UXZJ3P9W made several slow motion videos of water balloons popped through various objects resulting in spectacular fluid motion effects, like this water flower
[more videos from Best of Tiktok: buff.ly/3m6VA9H]
1613
“Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, Let Newton be! and all was light”
― Alexander Pope
#HappyBirthday #IsaacNewton
(born 380 years ago #Today)
[gif: buff.ly/3JrvMB4]
1614
Bright idea for a staircase [photo credits: Nils Eisfeld, buff.ly/2KtMG3y]
1615
Roughly the size of a thumb, pelagic red crabs are not true crabs: rather a species of squat lobster that lives off Baja California. But in exchange they are very curious
[read more: buff.ly/3qreAE9]
[📹 Jessica Harmon: buff.ly/33eMlA0]
1616
GravityLight is an LED light powered by a bag filled with rocks, attached to a cord, which slowly descends and powers the light for up to 20 minutes. Intended as a replacement for kerosene lamps in the developing world it has no operating costs
[more: buff.ly/2sRSBbs]
1617
The barreleye fish lives in the ocean’s twilight zone, at depths of 600 to 800 meters. It has a transparent head and tubular eyes, generally directed upwards to detect the silhouettes of available prey
[source, @MBARI_News: buff.ly/3shzln9]
1618
«Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions , binding together people who never knew each other [...] Books [and writing] are proof that humans are capable of working magic»
— Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Season 1, Episode 11
buff.ly/3T88GnM
1619
Photographer Mandy Wilson has captured an extraordinary image showing a newborn dolphin riding on mom’s back around Penguin Island, near Perth, off Western Australia's coast – and seemingly smiling in delight
[source: buff.ly/3go5IXy]
1620
Attacus atlas is a large saturniid moth endemic to the forests of Asia. Its Cantonese name translates as "snake's head moth," referring to the prominent extension of the forewing which bears resemblance to the head of a snake [read more: buff.ly/2J9lJBl]
1621
Bismuth crystals exhibit a stairstep crystal structure with iridescence colors, produced by interference of light within the oxide film on its surface.
This is how you make them.
[📹 sapphire_shores_emporium: buff.ly/3B0T2Cq]
1622
Stare at the central cross for 15-20 seconds
3 distinct illusions take place:
- Troxler fading (the pink discs disappear)
- a green disc is now flying around the circle by itself
- afterimage
[read more: buff.ly/3xmkOrY]
1623
Auricularia auricula-judae is a species of fungus distinguished by its noticeably ear-like shape
[read more: bit.ly/1TyCHJ4]
1624
This otherwordly view is not a city in the clouds: it's Chicago reflected in Lake Michigan captured by photographer Mark Hersch in 2014 on an airplane on approach to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport [source, read more: buff.ly/2Kirxs1]
1625
Artist Greg Edwards uses Mental Canvas to push the boundaries of space and time, taking us on a graphic, immersive journey through the infinite, zooming space of his fantastical imagination [author's Instagram account: buff.ly/3xzayvT]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links