1776
Using long exposure photography and a custom built lighting rig covered in colored gels, Daniel Mercadante created what he calls Rainbow Roads
[read more: buff.ly/2Jw61Ds]
1777
Pumice is a lightweight, bubble-rich rock that can float in water. It is produced when lava goes through rapid cooling & loss of gases. This clip was captured on a beach of Yoron island [read more: buff.ly/3Gi78kI-] [source: buff.ly/3E2Uqo2-]
1778
This gibbon is probably protecting its territory or just toying the tiger cubs, but its hazardous acrobatics and grace are simply stunning
[full video: buff.ly/3TS9T39]
1779
Born #Today in 1908, Mary G. Ross was the first known Native American female engineer, and the first female engineer in the history of Lockheed, remembered for her work on aerospace design and design concepts for interplanetary space travel [read more: buff.ly/2OX5Gtd]
1780
Alsomitra macrocarpa has seeds which use paper-thin wings to disperse like giant gliders. The seeds, which are produced by a football-sized pod, can glide hundreds of metres across the forest
[read more: buff.ly/2xzxEqt]
[full video: buff.ly/2EDymnV]
1781
Manganese Nodules are found at the bottom of the ocean and they contain all the components needed for electric car batteries. Its estimated there are enough nodules to create over 200 million batteries and their worth is estimated up to 16 trillion dollars ow.ly/7DZH50xdzFJ
1782
1959's Friden SBT10 was a very luxury full function mechanical calculator. This video shows how it divides 355 by 113 (approximation of π) and other calculations
[read more: buff.ly/3CQkKRa]
[source, Tiny H: buff.ly/30WLB0T-]
1783
50 years ago #Today, the crew of Apollo 17 took the iconic "Blue Marble" photo. The last time human eyes saw this amazing view from a spacecraft go.nasa.gov/2joIFBx
1784
This short video footage shows a Martin RB-57D bomber observing a nuclear test explosion during Operation Hardtack, in the Pacific Proving Grounds, on July 12, 1958
[source: buff.ly/2qVjPvM]
[clip: buff.ly/3eTLeZN]
1785
There's a point in South America where three countries borders meet in the so called Triple Frontier [read more: buff.ly/2qitcqG]
1786
Following simple programmed rules, these autonomous robots assembled at Harvard University, arrange themselves into vast, complex shapes
[source, read more: buff.ly/2HVLA2Y]
1787
You’ll start to hear words, but nobody is actually talking. What you’re hearing is an auditory illusion, a series of very rapidly played piano notes which replicate the sound of a human voice
[video, by Game & Gig: buff.ly/3sc6xwq]
[read more: buff.ly/33BFeRR]
1788
Take the orbits of any two planets and draw a line between their positions. The inner planet orbits faster than the outer planet and interesting, spirograph-like patterns will evolve. These are Jupiter & Mars
[CaptainGranit: buff.ly/2G1xaOP]
1789
This is a very high level visual chart that shows the basic differences between diagnostic imaging and their main purpose, with focus on the head and brain area.
[source: buff.ly/3sWhsL7]
[explanation: buff.ly/3ELw5De]
1790
Those who hadn’t left the city in time during the 79CE eruption, were trapped in their homes, buried by a shower of pumice stones and lapilli
During the excavations in Pompeii, the remains of over one thousand victims have been found.
[read more: buff.ly/3VtqWYJ]
1791
This is a giant 50-meter deep 'crater' opens up in Arctic tundra. The recently-formed new hole or funnel is just one of the latest to be seen in northern Siberia since the phenomenon was first registered in 2014 [read more: buff.ly/2YKPAcY]
1792
The Turkish coffee looks like an apparent violation of the laws of thermodyamics, but there's a pretty simple way to brew it
[read more: bit.ly/2fGy5n2]
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1793
Spy hippo is a robotic spy animal capable of capturing some of the closest views that have ever been seen. And when real hippos dive underwater, spy hippo discovers a fish spa and an underwater clinic with skin treatment & dental hygiene too [full video: buff.ly/2mbhOxm]
1794
Photographer Haukur Sigurðsson took this picture of cross country skiers that look like musical notes. And someone just put them in music
[score: buff.ly/2HWawaB]
[music: buff.ly/2ro9zNX]
[author's IG and source: haukursig.com]
1795
The AquaDom in Berlin, a 25 m tall cylindrical acrylic glass aquarium with built-in transparent elevator containining 1 million liters of water and over 1,500 fish of 50 species, has burst flooding the nearby streets.
[video: buff.ly/3YyCvjW]
1796
This is a streetcar traveling in New Orleans. Photographer Don Chamblee held the camera against the window sill, making sure to divide the image equally between the inside and the outside, giving us a representation of relativity [source: buff.ly/2KsZh6K]
1797
The tidal cycle
This 2011 time lapse movie speeds up by 720 times the fall and rise of the tide in Hall's Harbour, Nova Scotia,
[📹 Leo de Groot: buff.ly/3ipfMld]
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1798
The story of the bees in Brooklyn who produced red honey, which led to an investigation at a nearby marachino cherry factory, which led to the discovery of a marijuana farm beneath the factory [read more: ow.ly/q4i330nsLHU]
1799
This video by Joel Sartore shows a wolly monkey, native from the rainforests of South America. It's now considered highly endangered
[read more: buff.ly/3s776G9]
[source and more videos: buff.ly/3B5Kdah]
1800
Steve Joy built a coin operated feeding box for crows. And this is the proof crows can use a vending machine
[full story and video: buff.ly/2yJWBQC]
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