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Massimo

@rainmaker1973

Engineer. Selecting and curating pictures and videos trying to add context, source and explanation to science, tech, art and weather topics

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Two deer managed to get their antlers locked together in Kent County, Michigan. They were found exhausted and near death in a creek by county clerk Lisa Posthumus Lyons and her husband Brad.

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Rooting for a marble in a totally chaotic process may be pointless, but marble runs exert an undoubtable fascination upon people. [📹 jfmarbletrack]

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In 2014, Tara the cat saved her owners' four-year-old child from a dog attack by bodyslamming the dog. The moment was recorded on household surveillance. Tara is reportedly still alive at 16 in Bakersfield, California.

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This is what happens to germs when you wash your hands with soap. If you get enough soap molecules into their lipid plasma membrane, they breaks it apart, destroying it.

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This is a touch-sensitive interative tablet enabling visually impaired people to follow the position of the ball in real time by feeling the vibrations at Paris 2024 Paralympics.

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Hockey fan Nadia Popovici, a soon-to-be medical student, made a life-saving diagnosis by alerting Vancouver Canucks assistant equipment manager Brian Hamilton to a potentially cancerous mole on the back of his neck.

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Traditionally, Māori's Haka was a customary way to welcome visiting tribes, but it also served to invigorate warriors as they headed into battle. In 1905, the All Blacks turned it into an iconic sport tradition. This is the New Zealand Army.

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Look at those precipitation lobes. A series of wet microbursts captured in Perth, Australia. [📹Kane Artie / kaneartie. photography]

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The Persian wind tower (بادگیر) or how a 700-year-old air conditioner could cool an environment up to 12°C with no electricity [📹 Never Enough Architecture]