Using early morning condensation from a hail net to water crops
[📹 Jack Adelaide]
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The sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica), also called a touch-me-not, instantly responds to touch by folding its leaflets, a result of specialized cells at the leaf base rapidly losing water pressure.
[📹 Miguel Á. Padriñán]
What smoking does to your body
Granaries known as igoudar were central to North Africa's Indigenous Amazigh civilization for over 1,000 years.
Moroccan granaries are also considered by some historians the world's oldest form of the banking system.
Did you know?
After the race, the horse’s legs are placed in ice-filled buckets to reduce inflammation and help the muscles recover faster.
This is what happens if you cut only one support cable which holds tower
How Buster Keaton did this insane stunt in 1924
T. rex named Gus sells for $50.1 million becoming the most expensive dinosaur fossil ever sold. The skeleton, found in South Dakota, measures 38 feet in length and 12.5 feet tall, with a skull of 54 inches, according to the art auction firm Sotheby's.
Simple Tai Chi hand exercises for relaxation
This 1889 Swiss mountain railway folds its bridge into the cliff every winter to survive heavy snow.
The sound of a snoring hummingbird.
Breathtaking timelapse of nightfall over Cerro Paranal in Chile.
[📹 ESO/José Francisco Salgado]
The speed of a chamois running down a mountain.
[📹 Zian Perrot-Couttet]
Unsatisfying situations animation by Parallel Studio.
He reported that his bag was stolen at the gym.
So they checked the CCTV footage.
In the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, the real grass is moved underground when the stadium hosts concerts and events.
This allows the field to stay healthy while the space transforms for huge crowds.
The dog at the shelter holds the reporter's hand and refuses to let go.
In the end, the reporter adopts the dog.
The intriguing topology of this toy
Little boy: "If you score a goal can you do this dance?"
Neymar: "I will do that one then, deal?"
Amazing footage of a USGS geologist approaching fast-flowing lava at Kīlauea Volcano in Hawaiʻi.
[📹 USGS]