Tag Archives: Environment

The Ig Nobel Prizes: Fluid Dynamics of Cats? Can Humans Run on Water?

Posted on December 3, 2024 by agogo22

The Ig Nobel Prizes – awards presented for research that first makes you laugh and then makes you think. 🔗 Social Media 🔗 📸 Instagram: / ellieinstem 🧵Threads: https://www.threads.net/@ellieinstem?… 🦋Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/elliesleight… 🎵 TikTok: / elliesleightholm 🐦 Twitter / X: https://x.com/elsleightholm … Continue reading →

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Another way of obtaining silk that doesnt include boiling them

Posted on December 3, 2024 by agogo22
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Nordic Survival Food #nordic #norway #sweden #finland #food #language #funny

Posted on December 2, 2024 by agogo22
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Tree struck by lightning burning from inside out.

Posted on December 2, 2024 by agogo22
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Ancient Amazonian Cities [3 examples…kind of]

Posted on December 2, 2024 by agogo22

  […] What’s going on with these ancient Amazon cities! Sources: Prümers, Heiko, et al. “Lidar reveals pre-Hispanic low-density urbanism in the Bolivian amazon.” Nature, vol. 606, no. 7913, 25 May 2022, pp. 325–328, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04…. Rostain, Stéphen, et al. “Two … Continue reading →

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The Himawari 8 weather satellite takes a picture of Earth every 10 minutes. This image is from today.

Posted on December 2, 2024 by agogo22
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You’re Probably Wrong About Rainbows

Posted on December 1, 2024 by agogo22

[…] Special thanks to Mats Vermeeren. 00:00 Most people don’t understand rainbows 01:08 Light refraction explained 08:20 How does a rainbow form? 13:10 Circular rainbows 15:14 Why are rainbows curved? 17:30 Why can’t you see a rainbow with sunglasses? 18:43 … Continue reading →

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Jasper Doest (@jasperdoest) | So, here’s the thing about my cousin Odette…

Posted on December 1, 2024 by agogo22
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13-year-old Barbara Kent (center) and her fellow campers play in a river near Ruidoso, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, just hours after the Atomic Bomb detonation 40 miles away [Trinity nuclear test]. Barbara was the only person in the photo that lived to see 30 years old.

Posted on December 1, 2024 by agogo22
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Why Planes Follow This Invisible Path Across the Atlantic ✈️ Jet Stream Highway 🌍

Posted on November 30, 2024 by agogo22
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