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Sebastião Salgado: Genesis | Famous landscape photographers

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Why British People Can’t Donate Blood in America

[…] Credits: Narrator: Stephanie Sammann Writer: Ashleen Knutsen Editor: Dylan Hennessy (https://www.behance.net/dylanhennessy1) Illustrator/Animator: Kirtan Patel (https://kpatart.com/illustrations) Animator: Mike Ridolfi (https://www.moboxgraphics.com/) Sound: Graham Haerther (https://haerther.net) Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster (https://twitter.com/forgottentowel) Producer: Brian McManus (https://www.youtube.com/c/realenginee…) Imagery courtesy of Getty Images References: [1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/… … Continue reading →

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The robot-proof job men aren’t taking

It’s easy to imagine that the jobs of the future, if they even exist, will all revolve around technology. But it turns out, the jobs that are least likely to succumb to automation are those that involve building human relationships. … Continue reading →

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Close-Up Portraits of Bees Capture Each of Their Unique Faces

By Jessica Stewart on May 25, 2021 Being stuck in quarantine encouraged this photographer to point his lens at his own garden, and he wound up with incredible bee portraits. Documentary camera and drone operator Josh Forwood specializes in capturing … Continue reading →

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Where Do Insects Go In the Winter? (And the Fascinating Way Honey Bees Keep Their Hives Warm)

[…] In this video: Up until only a few years ago, it was thought by many scientists that Honey bee hives were kept warm by pupae in the brood and that the bees would often congregate there to warm themselves … Continue reading →

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Why Vultures Don’t Get Sick When Eating Dead and Rotting Things

[…] In this video: In the video today we’re looking at why vultures can happily eat various dead and rotting things, even when said flesh is disease ridden, all without apparent negative effect on themselves. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.p… … Continue reading →

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Homochirality: Why Nature Never Makes Mirror Molecules

[…] Molecules of biological origin always have a fixed handedness or chirality. For example you only ever see right handed sugars and left handed amino acids in nature. But why? Credits: Meteorite image – Art Bromage – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi… RNA and … Continue reading →

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How the Body Builds a Healthy Relationship with “Good” Gut Bacteria – ScienceBlog.com

Our body’s relationship with bacteria is complex. While infectious bacteria can cause illness, our gut is also teaming with “good” bacteria that aids nutrition and helps keep us healthy. But even the “good” can have bad effects if these bacteria … Continue reading →

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SWEET COCOON : le court métrage “recommandé” des Oscars 2015

Deux insectes aident une chenille dans sa métamorphose… Retenu comme court-métrage “Hautement recommandé” de la catégorie “Nominated Short Films” aux Oscars 2015! Plus de courts métrages ici ► http://bit.ly/ESMA-Movies Réalisateurs : Matéo Bernard, Matthias Bruget, Jonathan Duret, Manon Marco, Quentin … Continue reading →

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41 micrometeorites in less than 2 minutes | The Kid Should See This

“The solar system is a dusty place,” explains Project Stardustfounder Jon Larsen in the caption of one of his videos. “Every day approximately 100 tons of cosmic dust fall down on Earth, mainly as micrometeorites…” “Most of these mineral particles (iron, … Continue reading →

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Homochirality: Why Nature Never Makes Mirror Molecules

Molecules of biological origin always have a fixed handedness or chirality. For example you only ever see right handed sugars and left handed amino acids in nature. But why? Credits: Meteorite image – Art Bromage – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi… RNA and DNA … Continue reading →

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A Candy-Colored Cloud Hovers Over a West Texas Landscape Mid-Thunderstorm | Colossal

Image © Laura Rowe While chasing a tornado near the small town of Earth, Texas, earlier this week, amateur photographer Laura Rowe captured this enormous cloud filtered with pastel sunlight. The candy-colored mass swells above the dusky expanse in the … Continue reading →

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