Quote from Lois Hi on August 21, 2022, 10:43 pm

 

Alsomitra macrocarpa has seeds which use paper-thin wings to disperse like giant gliders. The seeds, which are produced by a football-sized pod, can glide hundreds of metres across the forest [read more: https://t.co/V74QJ84UIi] [full video: https://t.co/0cwEY0BDE4] pic.twitter.com/jyzq2JPS0Q

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 21, 2022

 

Wow. 👏👍

The red-capped manakin's "moonwalk" to impress the ladies [source and full video: https://t.co/qjwXV8yKJV] pic.twitter.com/YP3wb49QxM

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 22, 2022

Changing teams.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/VeyTnmSwby

— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) August 22, 2022

NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and @NASA_Orion spacecraft will soon launch from @NASAKennedy in Florida for its flight test, #Artemis I. Watch to learn more about how @NASA delivered the individual pieces of the Moon rocket to assemble them at KSC and form the SLS rocket. pic.twitter.com/s11HT61pFE

— NASA_SLS (@NASA_SLS) August 22, 2022

An incredibly rare black deer spotted in the forest of the Barycz Valley, Poland in 2021. Most estimates guess that only about 1 in every 500,000 deer is melanistic

[read more: https://t.co/yg1PvbRrGs]
[📹 Jakub Wencek: https://t.co/VljV1LEiLI]pic.twitter.com/kluT6L5YHr

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 23, 2022

If you're ready to take a break, let me suggest something that's more fun than coffeepic.twitter.com/mUiUrHp3A4

— Hy Bender (@hybender) August 22, 2022

Good morning lovelies. 😘

1958. an engineer wiring an IBM computer pic.twitter.com/rDZsp5gM20

— World's History (@syeda12857880) August 21, 2022

This is how the first hard drive looked like. It weighed 1 ton and had 5 MB of storage, 1956. pic.twitter.com/UUm6gHAlux

— World Of History (@UmarBzv) August 24, 2022

Margaret Hamilton who took mankind to the moon. She is standing beside the codes she created to program the computer systems on The Apollo 11 Spacecraft, 1969. pic.twitter.com/0M7CQzYIuv

— World Of History (@UmarBzv) August 24, 2022

It's the only example of cooperative male-male displays ever discovered in nature. Surprising as it may sound, the Blue Manakin dominant male has a team of subordinate males who help him attract females https://t.co/6DQvD9IMfo [📹 Kenny Neal: https://t.co/mwpW2XJERR] pic.twitter.com/HApRV6wk0m

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 23, 2022

Dinosaur tracks from 113 million years ago have been revealed in Texas after a severe drought dried up a river. The footprints - left by a single acrocanthosaurus - had not been seen for more than 20 years [read more: https://t.co/bcwaIsWKmy] pic.twitter.com/6byfbyoCDB

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 24, 2022

To pay tribute to all the enslaved people buried in cemeteries with no name, artist Craig Walsh put a face in the trees to honor their souls in an installation in Charlotte, North Carolina, called "Monuments" [read more: https://t.co/eNvkocjub7] pic.twitter.com/9nAywnrpmC

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 19, 2022

Of the many structures Leonardo da Vinci designed, perhaps none made more ingenious use of materials than his practical design for an easy-to-assemble, self-supporting bridge

[read more: https://t.co/8YShCAl9ar]
[📹 https://t.co/kzhAztnx88] pic.twitter.com/LVIlsXrKnC

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 25, 2022

These silky sheets are actually a spider web. As happened in June 2021 in Australia, sometimes there are so many spiders making webs the silk becomes like one gossamer blanket [read more: https://t.co/HNqQhBS7mq] [Carolyn Crossley: https://t.co/MdWwuvT4rk] pic.twitter.com/ooGqCiEH87

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 25, 2022

Cabot's tragopan is a pheasant from mountain ranges in south-east China

Below the beak is a decorative wattle, and there are a pair of blue soft "horns"

These are inflated as part of a courtship display to impress females, you can see that happen here pic.twitter.com/fYxjs2eHg2

— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) August 25, 2022

How monopolies workpic.twitter.com/XqKeB38Ttv

— Hy Bender (@hybender) August 25, 2022

Quote from Lois Hi on August 25, 2022, 11:21 pm

 

How monopolies workpic.twitter.com/XqKeB38Ttv

— Hy Bender (@hybender) August 25, 2022

 

Supply and demand Lois, brilliant !🤣

Staircase designed by Leonardo da Vinci, 1516. pic.twitter.com/GRksh5funG

— World Of History (@UmarBzv) August 12, 2022

I didn't actually last for 30 seconds staring at the dot on the screen - managed about 15 - and it still worked. Very cool 😍

1. stare at the red dot for ~30 seconds
2. turn your eyes towards a plain, white surface
3. keep blinking your eyes quickly
4. discover what is a negative afterimage: https://t.co/e3bM9AiBZ9 pic.twitter.com/mLmMe1ikVJ

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 26, 2022