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What It’s Like To See 100 Million Colors
SUBSCRIBE Concetta Antico is an artist with a superhuman power: she can see up to 100 million colors, a hundred times more than the average human. She is a tetrachromat: a person with four (instead of three) photoceptors in their … Continue reading
This Is How Birds See The World As Compared To Humans And It’s Pretty Amazing
For many years, people were in the dark about how other animals see. Thankfully, recent scientific researches have revealed an amazing world of vision diversity across the animal kingdoms. For example, a dragonfly’s brain works so fast that it sees … Continue reading
Some corals ‘killed’ by climate change are now returning to life | New Scientist
Warm water can leave corals looking dead – but in some cases polyps still survive deep in the coral skeleton and in time they can return the coral to life More: Some corals ‘killed’ by climate change are now returning … Continue reading
Why lightning strikes twice as often over shipping lanes — scoreit.online
Enlarge John Fowler / Flickr For all the progress humanity has made since Odysseus had a spot of trouble on a long voyage home, life on the high seas remains a largely joyless affair. Twenty-first-century sailors spend weeks away from … Continue reading
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Growing electricity. — Hmmstudio
Sometimes you watch or read something that makes you go, wow. Sorry humans, but we did not invent electrical networks. These living growing multi-cellular micro-organisms are literally electricity and it doesn’t stop there, these 2cm tiny electrical pulses can link … Continue reading
A Dreaming Octopus’s Imagination is Revealed in Her Color-Changing Slumber
A recent documentary from PBS includes a fascinating clip of an octopus changing colors while sleeping. The marine biologist involved in Octopus: Making Contact thinks that the sea creature was dreaming about hunting, which sparked the color shift to a camouflaged … Continue reading
Life Lessons From 100-Year-Olds
LifeHunters We asked three centenarians what their most valuable life lessons were, and also their regrets. The conversations that followed were remarkable. They talked about the importance of family, people, relationships and love. Their view on life, as an elderly … Continue reading
Lightning Scribbles Across the Sky in Dramatic Footage of Extreme Storms Around the U.S.
Arizona-based storm chaser and videographer Dustin Farrell just released “Transient 2”, the sequel to his 2017 film. For roughly three and a half minutes, the skies open up to reveal flashes of lightning and billowing clouds rolling across open plains. … Continue reading
Reasons for the seasons – Rebecca Kaplan
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/reasons-for… Why do some regions experience full-time heat while others are reckoning with frigid temperatures and snow? And why are the seasons reversed in the two hemispheres? Rebecca Kaplan explains how the shape of the Earth’s orbit … Continue reading
What If You Could See Every Wavelength Of The Electromagnetic Spectrum? | Answers With Joe
Visible light is only a small part of the electromagnetic spectrum, but some people see more of it than others. Let’s take a look at why.
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