1626
Synsepalum dulcificum, also known as miracle berry, is a fruit that, when eaten, causes your taste buds to not detect sour flavor for about half an hour, causing sour foods to taste sweet [read more: buff.ly/2DTlxm2]
1627
Smoke usually doesn't behave like a liquid, because its particles tend to rise, carried by convection currents. But there are conditions in which smoke can drip like water
[learn when: buff.ly/2XC70eo]
[source of the clip: buff.ly/3m2d3SP]
1628
A seagull riding another seagull. What appears to be a very unusual view can find an explanation in the way male seagulls signal they are ready to mate.
[read more: buff.ly/3Q865ri]
[📹: buff.ly/3cIp5it]
1629
Yosuke Ikeda created this interesting marble machine called AlgoLoop (Algorithm + Loop), where each click determines the motion of the marbles along the loop, in single, double and quadruple versions
[video: buff.ly/3yVNI08]
[Kickstarter: buff.ly/2XbePH9]
1630
How to find tardigrades in moss
[🔬: Olympus CX31]
[📹 Adolfo Sánchez-Blanco: buff.ly/3WiFKdp]
1631
Popularly nicknamed "St. Michael in peril of the sea" by medieval pilgrims, Mont-Saint-Michel can still pose dangers for visitors who avoid the causeway. The tides vary greatly, at roughly 14 meters
[📹 Ryan Shirley: buff.ly/3JRJI7W]
1632
The HZ-1 Aerocycle, was a one-man "personal helicopter" developed by de Lackner Helicopters in the mid-1950s. It was expected to become a standard reconnaissance machine with the US Army, but the project was abandoned after two crashes
[video: buff.ly/3fyBu67]
1633
Selfie shark.
Or how cinematographer Nicolas Zimmermann had his ring camera eaten by a tiger shark, retrieved the camera and got this clip of the interior of a shark's mouth
[source, full story: buff.ly/3vwUDgY]
1634
A famous physics puzzle: why does the hourglass not start rising right away?
[source: buff.ly/2mSOj3E]
If you want to know the answer, you may visit this site, that has some different plausible answers: buff.ly/2EOKxeA
1635
In this ABC interview from 1974, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke makes the bold claim that one day computers will allow people to work from home and access their banking records
[full video: buff.ly/2RiX0Oy]
1636
Why is speed at sea measured in knots? From the 15th century, sailors tossed a log attached to a rope with knots tied in it at equal intervals. They would count the number of knots that were pulled off the reel in a given amount of time [read more: buff.ly/3mMc8WZ]
1637
There's a dive site hidden in the heart of Slovakia with miles of flooded excavated tunnels. It's an opal mine where you can find otherwordly scene like this, with submerged ladders, tracks, and construction equipment
[read more, photos: buff.ly/3tSiDYQ]
1638
This mildly terrifying CT scan was made by Scott Echols capturing tiny blood vessels in the head of a pigeon, created by a special ‘contrast agent’ to highlight the microvasculatory system
[read more: buff.ly/2to3oJN]
1639
'Denny' is the only known individual whose parents were two different species of human. The 13-year-old Neanderthal-Denisovan hybrid girl lived 90,000 years ago in central Asia, where a fragment of her bone was found in 2012 buff.ly/3AgYcee [📷buff.ly/2BuOExP]
1640
In image processing, one of the elements you see in the clip is called a 'gabor'. Configurations of drifting gabors that are stationary, can give rise to dramatic global motion percepts. This is the 2016 winner of the Best Illusion of the Year contest: buff.ly/2QGIkxj
1641
The weedy seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) has small leaf-like appendages that resemble kelp fronds providing camouflage and a number of short spines for protection, plus an often iridescent body
[📹 Harry Cassio: buff.ly/3qr7IWA]
1642
Believe it or not, approximately 1/3 of all tracked space debris orbiting Earth comes from just two distinct events: China's anti-satellite test in 2007, and the collision between a defunct Soviet satellite with an operating U.S. spacecraft in 2009 ow.ly/Gazd50wO1rZ
1643
Sandstorm flmed in the Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai province in July 2022
[fact check, read more: buff.ly/3CdSWIc]
1644
The Largest crane from Liebherr, "LR13000" can lift 3,000 tons. The second largest "LR11350" can lift 1350 tons. The third largest "LR 1350" 350 tons. And the "smallest" "LTR 1100" 100 tons. This was done on Customer Days 2012 [how it was done, video: buff.ly/2nxCO20]
1645
To catch their prey, blue-footed boobies can dive deeper than 20 meters and for longer than 30 seconds, but their dives usually are rather shallow and short. They plunge into the water from as high as 100 meter. And totally synchronized [full video: buff.ly/2Jc3RF8]
1646
«I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned»
— Richard Feynman
buff.ly/2HhV1by
#ThursdayThoughts
1647
The threadfin snailfish (Careproctus longifilis) is found at depths between 1,900 and 3,334 meters (6,230 and 10,940 feet) and measure up to 15 cm (about six inches long).
[read more: buff.ly/3RSPQj7]
[📹 @MBARI_News: buff.ly/3qqNeNB]
1648
The Sakya Monastery in Tibet houses a huge library of as many as 84,000 books on traditional stacks 60 meters long and 10 meters high. One scripture weighs more than 500 kg, the heaviest in the world
[read more: buff.ly/3UTum7t]
1649
Betsy is a black and white longhaired Border Collie, credited with being one of the world's most intelligent dogs. She has a vocabulary of more than 340 words, which rivals that of the great apes in terms of intelligence and lateral thinking [read more: ow.ly/2DaM30n5Vex]
1650
There's a mountain in Peru whose 7 colors make of it one of the most beautiful natural wonders in the world [read more: ow.ly/IBmH50DtEih]
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