2101
Saltwater Brewery is known for their beer, but also because of its development and widespread marketing of a biodegradable 6-pack ring that is edible to sea life [source, read more: buff.ly/2HleZlP]
2102
The Line is a smart city in Saudi Arabia that will have no cars, no streets, and no carbon emissions. When completed, it will be 170 km across, will preserve 95% of the nature within Neom & is planned to have 1 million residents: buff.ly/3Id2AMC
2103
Designer Erik Åberg wanted to recreate the concept of origami out of wood, focusing on how the objects moved. During his experiments he devised this system of interlocking, moveable cubes called GHOSTKUBE
[read more: erikaberg.com]
2104
The incredibly well-preserved, painted ceiling at Egypt’s Temple of Hathor is part of the main temple at the Dendera Complex which was built around 2250 BCE and is regarded as one of the best-preserved temple complexes in Egypt [read more: buff.ly/2HWU5Xi]
2105
The glass frog is named for its transparent skin, so that you can see all its internal organs
[read more: buff.ly/2lsDhh7]
[photo, Jaime Culebras: buff.ly/2rhJvHi]
2106
This video by Magnetic Geames features a series of remarkable slow motion magnet collisions [source and full video: buff.ly/2IPnre2]
2107
This is the Great Daylight Fireball that grazed the Earth's atmosphere exactly 50 years ago #Today. The atmospheric pass modified its orbit, but it is probably still in an Earth-crossing trajectory and passed close again in 1997 bit.ly/2aYwgzS
2108
«At first all plates seem upside-down, once you see one that is straight up all the other ones will show straight up too».
This is due to your unconscious expectation to see objects illuminated from above
[read more: ow.ly/wgM530nBF4b, ow.ly/hZPE30nBF4F]
2109
Thomas Young proved that light is a wave, described elasticity, capillary action, explained how our eyes see colors, compared 400 languages vocabulary, deciphered hieroglyphs and contributed to music theory. He is called "The last man who knew everything" buff.ly/3gcAiDo
2110
A photograph can evoke a vivid sense of place - but this picture by Beh Hall with flamingoes flying through the Chilean Andes is possibly capturing the best from the interaction between animals and the environment [source: ow.ly/B6cM50x4zL3]
2111
This is the world's largest air cannon, built by Laborky Cz in collaboration with the TV show "Wonders of Nature" in 2015. The cannon could shoot air (with smoke to make it visible) more than 100 m, breaking a giant wall of cardboard boxes [full video: buff.ly/2TpT0Pe]
2112
Cold weather may contribute to create solar haloes. This impressive video was captured in Sweden in December 2018 and you can see a magnificent 22° halo with an impressive upper tangent arc [source: buff.ly/3p6DTKr ] [explanation: buff.ly/2UJezd3]
2113
Prairie dogs, a species of rodent native to North America, live together in little villages of underground burrows. They have a language with over 50 unique words including ones for “human” and “human with gun”
[read more: buff.ly/2KwHQVV]
2114
Not only Moley Robotics Kitchen cooks complete meals: it tells you when ingredients need replacing, suggests dishes based on the items you have in stock, learns what you like and even cleans up surfaces after itself [learn more: moley.com]
2115
«The B in Benoît B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoît B. Mandelbrot»
#WednesdayWit
[more math humor: buff.ly/3W0mceN]
2116
When bees feed on the pollen of rhododendron flowers, the resulting honey can pack a hallucinogenic punch. Honey hunters in Nepal make dangerous vertical climbs to harvest it since it sells for $60-80 a pound [read more: buff.ly/2uo87Pi]
2117
The Revolt Bear Mobil is a 1987 1/60 Bandai model kit with a very peculiar locomotion system
[video: buff.ly/3FjbWXs]
[read more: buff.ly/3uJ28kG]
2118
The koala has one of the smallest brains in proportion to body weight of any mammal, weighing only 19.2 g. Because of this, they have a limited ability to perform complex behaviours. When presented with plucked leaves, they don't recognize them as food ow.ly/9pFB30o02Xo
2119
The C-130 Hercules holds the record for the largest and heaviest aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier. In 1963, a KC-130F made 21 unarrested landings and take-offs on the USS Forrestal [video by jaglavaksoldier: buff.ly/31uoeM5] [full story: buff.ly/3Gd82hG]
2120
This mussel waves a lure that looks like a small fish. Bigger fish try to eat the lure & a cloud of larvae is expelled, attaching to the fish gills so that they can go upriver instead of downstream [source, read more: buff.ly/3bipggb] [Video by Ryan Haggerty]
2121
Pallas cats' fur is nearly twice as long on their belly/tail as on their top and sides. Standing on their tails helps keep the cats warm as they hunt on snow or frozen ground
[read more: buff.ly/3MMuySO]
[📹 Roman Paulov: buff.ly/3EZuH3w]
2122
Megathura crenulata is a northeastern Pacific Ocean species of limpet. Its blood contains a hemocyanin that appears blue due to its copper content
[read more: buff.ly/3DDWzXg]
[video by Aron Sanchez-Baranda, sped up 3x: buff.ly/3kWkzh7]
2123
The unexpected behavior of the origami karakuri puppets by Haruki Nakamura
[read more: ow.ly/fq8w30ob0X4]
2124
An autostereogram is a single-image stereogram, designed to create the visual illusion of a 3D scene from a two-dimensional image. Often called 'Magic Eye', not everyone is able to see the hidden image, but you can use a trick: magiceye.ecksdee.co.uk [buff.ly/2J5DAwO]
2125
How a team of scientists has successfully "reawakened" cells from a 28,000-year-old woolly mammoth. The cells came from an extraordinarily well-preserved woolly mammoth discovered in Siberian permafrost in 2012 and nicknamed "Yuka" ow.ly/IlYU30o7bir
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