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Fascinating 3 days ago
How holes for screws are made [📹 factory.cnc]
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Fascinating 5 days ago
A beautiful way to explain chaos theory 10 pendulums begin almost identically, separated by only 1 degree, yet over time their motion becomes completely different. [🎞️ thebrainmaze]
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Fascinating 5 days ago
Real wasabi comes from a gnarly root that’s super rare, expensive, and basically impossible to grow outside Japan. This chef carefully preps it for top-tier sushi. [📹 sushi.yoshinaga]
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Fascinating 1 week ago
The tides of the Qiantang river makes patterns exactly like a tree
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Fascinating 2 weeks ago
The three-body problem stumped Isaac Newton and Henri Poincaré—the latter even laying the groundwork for chaos theory while trying to solve it. A major breakthrough came in 2000, when Alain Chenciner and Richard Montgomery uncovered the famous figure-8 solution—shown in clip 4. In 2013, Milan Šuvakov and Vladimir Dmitrašinović expanded the picture further, identifying 13 additional families of solutions. Each clip represents a true numerical integration of Newton’s law of gravitation, F = G·m₁m₂/r², using equal masses—no tricks, no shortcuts. It’s a reminder that mathematics dating back to 1687 still holds deep and unexpected surprises. [🎞️ extract: From Infinity with Love]
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Fascinating 2 weeks ago
Bom Jesus de Matozinhos Church in Barra do Guaicuí, Brazil. Dating back to the late XVII century, it was built with sandstone blocks from the Três Marias Formation, Bambuí Group. [📹 institutogeoatlantico]
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Fascinating 2 weeks ago
Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D reconstructions of a human cell (eukaryotic cell) ever produced. This groundbreaking model, often termed a "Cellular Landscape Cross-Section Through a Eukaryotic Cell," combines data from X-ray tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy to map molecular structures in extreme detail.
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Fascinating 2 weeks ago
Visual proof that: 6 ⋅ (1² + 2² + ... + n²) = (n) (n+1) (2n+1) [🎞️ Beau Janzen / reason4math]
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Fascinating 3 weeks ago
In 1923, aircraft were used to release titanium tetrachloride as a smokescreen to conceal ships at sea. When exposed to moisture in the air, the chemical produced a dense white cloud—made up not just of smoke, but fine droplets of hydrochloric acid and titanium oxychloride.
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Fascinating 3 weeks ago
How photography with a tilt-shift effect turns reality into a tiny toy like world. [📹 diorama_toyama]
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Fascinating 0 months ago
An efficient and vicious microscopic hunter, the single-cell organism Lacrymaria olor, attacks and consumes another single-cell organism. [📹 James Weiss]
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Fascinating 0 months ago
The mind-bending reflections of Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat, located in southwest Bolivia at an elevation of 3,656 meters (11,995 ft) above sea level.
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Fascinating 0 months ago
Xie Yifei is a contemporary Chinese artist who creates vibrant cityscapes using palette knives, emphasizing urban architecture, light, and movement.
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Fascinating 0 months ago
This Mazda 787B has the most insane rotary engine sound you'll ever hear