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Indian businessman Datta Phuge's iconic custom $240,000 gold shirt was made from 14,000 pieces of 22-carat gold, weighs 3.32 kg and was crafted by 15 artisans over 16 days. Original post

A pair of oarfish swimming at the surface. The oarfish is thought to inhabit the epipelagic to mesopelagic ocean layers, ranging from 200 meters (660 ft) to 1,000 meters (3,300 ft) and is rarely seen on the surface [📹 31963947121] Original post

Schrödinger's dumpster Original post

Tulum is a traditional Turkish goat's milk cheese ripened in a goatskin casing, which has been cleaned and salted [📹 İlter Avşar / ilteravsar] Original post

The Ambuluwawa Tower is located in the suburbs of Gampola Town in Sri Lanka: it's 48 meters tall, cone-shaped tower housing the Stupa (Pagoda) of a Buddhist Temple [📹 enronquecido] Original post

As the light passes from water to air, it is refracted. At a critical angle, the light bounces off the internal boundary of the water stream: it's called total internal reflection [📹JaDropping Science] Original post

Perhaps no animals have more of a reputation for their playful nature than river otters and this is true in any environment, be it water or snow. This one has been caught using its belly to slide on the snow [📹 Cassie Wistrom] Original post

Casual lunch in the sky [📍 Praia Grande, SC - Brazil] [📹 daniel_cajal / goprobr] Original post

Watch your step (1949) Original post

Old Harry Rocks are three chalk formations, including a stack and a stump, located at Handfast Point, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, southern England. They mark the most eastern point of the Jurassic Coast. [📹 luigichiurchi] Original post

Never turn your back to the sea. The most beautiful and peaceful beaches can be the most dangerous ones. 📍Nusa Penida, Bali [📹 sssextreme] Original post

The white ghost elephant of Etosha National Park, Namibia. Elephants use clay from the Etosha Pan – a 120 km lakebed of salt – to protect themselves from the fierce Namibian sun and this is what they look like when the clay dries. [📹 jaqueline.mszt] Original post

Ice shards floating out to sea along the coast of Greenland [📹 Luke Stackpoole / withluke] Original post

This long vertical formations in the ice, are created when gas and other substances gushing from the bottom of the lake freeze near the surface. Original post

Few species have been observed imitating (at least some) human behaviors, but the list of observations has recently grown. This is just a flamingo at a yoga class at Baha Mar Resort in Nassau, Bahamas [📹 Lindsay Silberman / lindsaysil] Original post

One of the crucial roles a meerkat plays is the watch guard. One meerkat will stand on its hind legs and act as a lookout, scanning for predators. And sometimes, the vantage point they choose can be very peculiar. Original post

Anatomy and movements of the human eye [🎞️ animagraffs. com] Original post

Brillian stop motion LEGO bottle smashing [📹 TheJumiFilm] Original post

Dr Tatiana Erukhimova explains the basic principle of a gyroscope using the classic bike spinning wheel and a rope [📹 TAMU Physics & Astronomy videos] Original post

Alfonso Yuste Navarro is a street artist active in Spain. He makes little, very detailed homes for stray cats in the streets of Valencia [📹 Jeanne Paquette / jea.nnee] Original post

A camera lucida is an optical device used as a drawing aid by artists and microscopists. It performs an optical superimposition and the artist sees both, scene and drawing surface simultaneously [📹 Mathieu Stern] Original post

Physics 1 Original post

While koalas might look like small bears, they are actually marsupials. They give birth to underdeveloped young that crawl into their mothers' pouches, where they stay for the first 6-7 months of their life. [📹 zoo_rascal] Original post

The story of Masako Wakamiya, the woman who became the oldest app developer at 84 years old, from when she got her first computer in 1997 to her first app developed when she was 82. Original post

The Shepard scale is an audio illusion which sounds like a musical scale constantly getting higher and higher - while it really isn’t. Here the tone is combined with the popular M.C. Escher's stairs [📹 hjfreeland] Original post

The magic of the Californian sunset’s reflections into a breaking wave [📹 dgphotography264] Original post

Al-Khazneh is one of the most elaborate rock-cut tombs in Petra, a city of the Nabatean Kingdom. It is thought that it was built at the beginning of the 1st century CE [📹 giuliacck] Original post

Do you know what's a CAPTCHA and what does it mean? And why can't a robot pass a CAPTCHA test? [📹 Australian Broadcasting Corporation / WTFAQ] Original post

This time-lapse video shows how a stop motion clip is made: hours of work for 15 seconds of animation [📹Justin Rasch] Repost of @pascal_bornet: Original post

Kirigami (切り紙) is a variation of origami, where the paper is cut as well as being folded This paper investigates the creation of shape-morphing material structure with Kirigami & this is how you square the circle. Repost of @garyptchoi: Original post

This is when the US Navy launched trucks off the USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier to test its jet catapult system. Original post

Ben's Worx's handmade wood and resin sculptures look like they hold otherworldly mountainscapes and colorful galaxies within them Original post

The best costume Original post

«Never tell your electrical engineer parent you want to be a transformer for Halloween» Original post

Chada the bear from a sanctuary near Kyiv has become a social media star. A video of her emerging from her den has gone massively viral. Original post

The shadow of second highest mountain in the world, K2, projected into China across hundreds of miles. [📸 Chris B. Warner] Original post

Fun fact. The Great Sphinx in Giza, Egypt, has a tail. It is often overlooked because most people view the monument from the front. Original post

Moving pavements in Paris in 1900. The ‘Trottoir Roulant’ consisted of two moving pavements that ran in parallel at 4.5 and 8.5 kph. You could change tracks by holding onto one of the poles. Filmed by Thomas Edison’s crew. Original post

A sky straight out of Stranger Things.⁣ ⁣ These stunning supercilium clouds were spotted at sunset over Santa Cruz, California. [📹 sawdustimagery] Original post

UPS driver saves a calf that was stuck in between fences. Original post

This guy went jet skiing during a flood. Original post

Evolution of China Original post

In 2024, Bear 32, also known as Chunk, was observed eating 45 sockeye salmon in 10.5 hours from Brooks River in Katmai National Park & Preserve. At an estimated average of 3,000 calories per fish, Chunk consumed around 135,000 calories in that one sitting. Original post

An interesting trick Original post

10,500 years old woven basket found in the Cave of Horrors, near the Dead Sea. It's the oldest intact woven basket ever found in the world. Original post

This truck was equipped with an airplane turbine for cleaning up the snow, reaching a maximum temperature of 800℃. [📍 Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, Shandong, China] Original post

Pigeon took all the seeds Original post

ernoulli principle in action. Spinning this flexible tube super fast creates a high-speed airflow → low pressure at the end → ping pong balls get 'sucked' up into the tube like magic. No vacuum pump needed—just pure physics Original post

Rick Moranis left Hollywood at the peak of his fame to raise his children after his wife passed away. Original post

In 2002, Copenhagen scored a goal without the ball ever touching the ground. Original post