Roman inverted siphons made water climb uphill: without pumps.
[🎞️ intheeasyway]
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Tourists visiting Laguna Humantay in the Peruvian Andes, captured the exact moment a medium-sized avalanche occurred on the eponymous peak.
[📹 memomtz88]
Best use of AI I've seen this year
Two teachers in China teach static electricity in a fun way.
Cafe in Yandang Mountain, Wenzhou City 🇨🇳
The most likely cause of the Nepal–Tibet border flash flood is the creation of a barrier lake formed by a previous avalanche. The following devastating avalanche triggered the powerful surge of water seen in the August 26 event.
[🎞️ sciencebyansh]
The physics of 16 uncoupled pendulums
[📹 Marcel Clemens]
A “Canadian well” is an underground pipe system that uses the earth’s stable temperature (about 8–15°C) to pre-condition air. In winter, it warms incoming air, and in summer, it cools it.
He walked backward so perfectly, the world looks reversed
[📹 robinchanning]
A man in 1835 was digging a duck pond and accidentally uncovered a 70-foot tunnel made of 2,000 sq ft of mosaic made from 4.6 million shells (mussels, cockles, whelks, limpets, oysters, scallops).
It's the Shell Grotto in Margate, Kent, England.
Moon perfectly suspended in the rainbow. Captured during a rare clear morning over Scotland.
So sweet 🎂🎂
Finland 🇫🇮
A newborn melts hearts by kissing his mother right after birth.
Stunning views of wave hiding a cliff in Nazaré, Portugal.
[📹 Marcio Costa / mcydro]
Between 1508 and 1512, Michelangelo painted the Sistine chapel's ceiling, a project that changed the course of Western art and is regarded as one of the major artistic accomplishments of human civilization.
The Garbage Beneath Lower Manhattan
Stunning timelapse of the Moon and Venus setting over West O'ahu, Hawai'i.
[📹 Travis Shak]
Hear what ancient musical instruments actually sounded like.
[📹 Bilimtüel]
The rugged beauty of Fjaðrárgljúfur canyon in Iceland.