2126
Into the Inferno is a 2016 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog. In it, Herzog explores active volcanoes from around the world, following volcanologist and co-director Clive Oppenheimer
[full trailer: buff.ly/3vdE87m]
2127
This is what happens if you burn calcium gluconate on a stove [note: sped up video]
[source, read more: buff.ly/3yV3LOq]
twitter.com/chemicalsreact…
2128
Elephant tusks are starting to get smaller and in the future more elephants will be without them, because member of the species with a rare “tuskless” genetic trait had a better chance of surviving poachers
[read more: buff.ly/3fuoKLE]
2129
This graphic explains how Nomura's jellyfish multiply: from fertilized larvae, to polyps, to an incredible transformation that sees polyps walking and multiplying into trillions
[source and full video: buff.ly/2yjiExj]
2130
When the motion of the planets are charted as their so called epicyclic geocentric paths, or the shapes their orbits have as seen from Earth, you find these interesting mandala-like structures
[from: «Old and new astronomy», Richard Proctor, 1892 buff.ly/3bcPuzt]
2131
Squirrels' brains can grow in size during the fall to help them remember where they bury their nuts. Their brains are smaller the rest of the year [read more: buff.ly/2FMp6R7]
2132
Building and testing different LEGO mechanisms to create a water vortex inside an enclosed plastic ball and explore fluid mechanics
[full video, Brick Technology: buff.ly/3ABTxTi]
2133
The Fourier Transform explained in one sentence
[source and read more, by Stuart Riffle: buff.ly/3ILfsdD]
2134
A powerful storm brought sub-zero temperatures to the northern region of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia in February 2021. The rare occurrence was captured by TikTok user x509o with this video of snow underneath the sand [full video: buff.ly/3uIpbed] [user: buff.ly/3sJdEte]
2135
Explaining the popular internet phenomenon of "The Dress" with the help of some graphical tools
[source: buff.ly/3ekrD71]
[read more: buff.ly/2prohRb]
2136
The world’s 7.95 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things, yet since the dawn of civilisation, humanity has caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of plants
[read more: buff.ly/2rY7RTw]
2137
Kawachi Fuji Garden in Japan, is home to an incredible 150 Wisteria flowering plants spanning 20 different species. The garden’s main attraction is the Wisteria tunnel that allows visitors to walk down an enchanting tunnel exploding with colour [source: buff.ly/12qUhav]
2138
The Andean condor is the largest flying bird in the world by combined measurement of weight and wingspan. It has a maximum wingspan of 3.3 m and weight of 15 kg [read more: bit.ly/3cCzYyo] [source of the photo, ornithologist Jerry McGahan: bit.ly/3cCzYyo]
2139
In 36BCE, Marcus Varro wrote about germs describing "minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes...enter the body through the mouth & nose & there cause serious diseases" The germ theory of disease would not be widely accepted for another 1,900 years ow.ly/RVjE30nIUoZ
2140
This robot can win rock-paper-scissors 100% of the time thanks to high speed recognition of high speed vision
[source, Ishikawa Group Laboratory: buff.ly/2tBTFQ9]
2141
40 minutes from recently unocovered footage of the detonation of the largest nuclear bomb the world has ever seen, the RDS-220, or Tsar Bomba
[read more, the full video: buff.ly/34GCnp8]
2142
In the early morning of 2013 May 10, from Western Australia, the Moon was between the Earth and the rising Sun. In an annular eclipse, the Moon is too far from the Earth to block the entire Sun, resulting in what is known as a ring of fire [source: buff.ly/3d395Se]
2143
The balls behind the horizontal lines are all the same color.
This one and many other color illusion by
@NovickProf
are available here: bit.ly/2O74l2I
Explanation of the Munker illusion: engineering.utep.edu/novick/colors/
2144
The story of Maurice Hilleman, the biologist who developed over 40 vaccines, among which measles, mumps, hepatitis, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia: an unparalleled record of productivity that saved more lives than any other scientist of the 20th century buff.ly/2o9ChmY
2145
The James Webb Space Telescope captured images of Jupiter and its moons Amalthea and Adrastea on July 27, 2022. Also visible in the false color Near Infrared Camara (NIRCam) images are the gas giant planet's rings and auroras [read more: buff.ly/3QFcuuV]
2146
When does the line between day and night become vertical? #Today, September 23 at 01.03 UTC, there was an equinox on planet Earth
[read more: bit.ly/3xPFGYT]
[watching solstices and equinoxes from space: buff.ly/1Qe1hk7]
2147
National Geographic chose this as the best picture of 1987. This is the story of Dr. Zbigniew Religa, captured after a 23 hour heart transplant, and of his patient Tadeusz Zitkevits, who ended up by outliving his surgeon [read more: ow.ly/jz4P50wlaI7]
2148
In this 1964 episode of the ABC’s classic science program, ‘Why Is It So?’, Professor Julius Sumner Miller re-attempts a favourite experiment, and things don’t quite go to plan. But then, his pure joy as experiment takes unexpected turn
[full video: buff.ly/3yywZRv]
2149
Andreas Kunert and Naomi Zettl, a married artist duo based in Vancouver, create beautiful flowing wall installations out of rocks, pebbles, and other decorative elements. And the results are remarkable
[read more: buff.ly/2HdmAyJ]
2150
The Klein Bottle (in this version by Cliff Stoll) is a 3D representation of a four dimensional mathematical object with one side, no edges, and zero volume. Kind of like a Möbius strip with no edges [source, read more: buff.ly/38lhKQA]
Astronomy, astronautics, meteorology, physics. Engineer, trying to build the big picture of #science via selected & curated pics, videos & links