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The world's hjghest tides occur in the Bay of Fundy in Atlantic Canada. This time 2011 lapse movie by Leo de Groot speeds up by 720 times the fall and rise of the tide in Hall's Harbour, Nova Scotia, highlighting what we could call the ocean's breath: buff.ly/3ipfMld
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The average dog can count to 5 and understands about 165 words, including signs, signals and gestures. The smartest dogs understand up to 250 words, putting them on par intellectually with 2-and-a-half-year-old humans [read more: buff.ly/2KiJ5rL]
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The African tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) walks - not climbs - up the branches of a tree, using its prehensile tail for balance. It can even climb trees with no branches [source, read more: buff.ly/2HKoKu3]
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This rainbow with a rainshaft was observed by Jared Rackley on May 27, 2014 during a NOAA storm chasing session in Carr Colorado
[source, NOAA Photo Library: ow.ly/TQZA50AR2J2]
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Unlike most birds, kiwis have heavy bones filled with marrow. Their powerful legs make up a third of their body weight and allow them to even outrun a person
[read more: buff.ly/30SrReC]
[clip by YT's Peter: buff.ly/3cJO8xP-]
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The green shield bug (Palomena prasina) lays its eggs in hexagonal batches of 25 to 30, and a single female will lay three to four batches. Each egg frequently shows marks on it and sometimes pareidolia makes the rest buff.ly/30JyF8I [photo: buff.ly/30Okv6m]
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Lactation
When a baby suckles, it stimulates the mom's body to release prolactin & oxytocin. Oxytocin causes muscle contractions that push out the milk of the alveoli & prolactin causes the alveoli to make milk
[📹 design_cells: buff.ly/3QyoU7O]
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Einstein's General Relativity field equations are quite complex, but sometimes single ideas can simply summarize entire theories, like John Archibald Wheeler did with his sentence "spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve" ow.ly/vW4u30n6yga
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50 years ago #Today, one of the earliest arcade video games, #Pong, was originally released by Atari bit.ly/1JQZDlB
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This wonderful image captured by Greg Robertson when mustering in far north western New South Wales shows the intricate patterns created by the tracks of a dingo running across water in a clay pan
[source: buff.ly/2u6ctHq]
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The migration of golden cownose rays in the Gulf of Mexico is a sight that will leave you breathless. It only happens twice a year and it's actually beyond beautiful [read more, photo by Florian Schulz: buff.ly/2Ku3aIU]
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Octopuses are anti-social towards other octopuses by nature, but when given MDMA they’re much more friendly and try to “hug” each other
[read more: buff.ly/2QM4wle]
[full paper: buff.ly/2DiDZcP]
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The Lambert 1 typewriter (1896) is unique in shape and technology. Its keyboard consists of one single piece. On pushing a key, the entire keyboard and the attached type stamp (pic 6) swivelled into position and printed the correct letter onto the paper ow.ly/2zQU30q1y1r
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Airless tires eliminates the need for air with a structure capable of supporting the vehicle, while also delivering a safe ride. Without air, flat tires and pressure loss are no longer an issue
[read more: buff.ly/3vfObKv]
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The size of Earth compared to the size of the rings of Saturn [source: buff.ly/2DGi1LA]
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Sea lions physiology allow them to dive for long periods of time, very deep and in nearly any condition. See them ride roaring waves near Santa Barbara Island, California
[read more: buff.ly/3RtYTXn]
[📹 Ryan Lawler: buff.ly/39KwXKz]
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Lawrence Anthony was known as the "elephant whisperer". When he died in 2012, a group of wild elephants which he had helped rescue and rehabilitate walked up to his home on their own, and stood around in an apparent vigil for two days, before dispersing ow.ly/aKFB30o9dII
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This is what you obtain plotting the permutation of 7 items.
[5040 permutations: buff.ly/3ZbOapc]
[Lars Wander's site: larswander.com]
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This short clip shows the process of digging, extracting cleaning and enjoying crystals
[📹 rocksforthespiritt: buff.ly/3PwWJFh]
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Brittle stars move fairly rapidly by wriggling their arms which are highly flexible and enable the animals to make either snake-like or rowing movements
[📹 D. Allan Drummond]
[read more: buff.ly/3FjzYBt]
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SuitX Phoenix is a semi-passive and lightweight powered exoskeleton for patients with spinal cord injury and mobility disorders
[full paper: buff.ly/3qUtCSk]
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Gripping workpieces just as a chameleon's tongue grips insects – that is the operating principle of the adaptive shape gripper DHEF. The adaptive shape gripper grips energy-efficiently and reliably when combined with a pneumatic drive
[full video: buff.ly/3aX2dGA]
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Since its inauguration in 1964, approximately 6.4 billion people have used the Tokaido Shinkansen, aka the Bullet Train, with zero accidents and an average delay time of 0.9 minutes [read more: buff.ly/3qZCO7I]
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Where did the chemical elements of the Solar System come from? This periodic table by Jennifer Johnson shows the origin of the elements in the Solar System [source, read more: buff.ly/2wkotaV]
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You may not know that when Robert Ballard announced a mission to find the Titanic, it was a cover story for a classified mission to search for lost nuclear submarines. They finished earlier & spent the extra time looking for the Titanic & actually found it ow.ly/rX5N30ogWsA
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