Photographer Wu Yung-sen has been deep sea diving and photographing marine life for four years. On a recent blackwater dive—unable to see the bottom and surrounded by impenetrable space—he chanced upon a rare larval Wunderpus octopus, totally transparent buff.ly/3oytEMs

3000 BCE: Imagine a hot shower... 1000: Wouldn't a hot shower be nice 1200: Wouldn't a hot shower be nice 1400: Wouldn't a hot shower be nice 1600: Wouldn't a hot shower be nice 1800: Wouldn't a hot shower be nice 2000: Ah, nice hot showers for all 🚿 2020: How about a cold

Actual food prices are down 25% from the peak and yet we see NO reflection of it in consumer prices It is about time that we demand price cuts from our retailers

1/ Over the past 13 years, Apple has brought in $758 billion in free cash flow. And it has returned 93% of that to shareholders, shrinking share count by 37%.

Maps twist our perception of the world Here are 20 to rethink it: 1. Countries closer to the equator (~poorer) seem smaller than they are (map by Neil Kaye)

The camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique and iconic view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth in August 2015, from a distance of 1 million miles [read more: buff.ly/1Pio3lv]

This timelapse sequence shows how critical naval and aviation parts like a 900 mm diameter three-blade propeller or an aerospace propeller tank are 3D printed in stainless steel [source, Meltio: buff.ly/3omMFXe] "

This is Barcelona at night, one of the world's most unique cities. But why does it look like that? Well, until 1855 it was overcrowded, dirty, and diseased — then something special happened. Here is how you build a beautiful city...

The best golf shot in the history of the sport

Observation suggests that people are switching to using ChatGPT to write things for them with almost indecent haste. Most people hate to write as much as they hate math. Way more than admit it. Within a year the median piece of writing could be by AI.

I warn you now, this is going to have unfortunate consequences, just as switching to living in suburbia and driving everywhere did. When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think.

An intersting comparison between the space requirements of wind turbines with that of a nuclear power plant [source: klimavenner.no]

This is Earth without water

This famous image by István Orosz features a scene from the classic novel The Mysterious Island. When a mirrored cylinder is placed on the Moon, it reveals by anamorphosis a portrait of the writer, Jules Verne [source: buff.ly/319f9VP]

Andrej Karpathy is a legendary AI researcher who helped start OpenAI. He recently gave a talk on how to craft great GPT prompts that almost everyone missed. I watched the 40 min talk - here's Andrej Karpathy's top 5 tips to make AI work better for you:

A prediction about our AI future in 1964:

Always been a dream of mine to present at Apple's WWDC... and that dream is now a reality! Here it is: Principles of spatial design Learn how to design spatially for Apple Vision Pro and visionOS #WWDC23 full video: developer.apple.com/wwdc23/10072

What looks like a scene from a post-apocalyptic movie, actually shows how a reforestation session in British Columbia takes place after wildfires. Leslie Dart planted 4,545 trees in a day [read more: buff.ly/3p1RqCU] [📹 buff.ly/3QlOahc] x.com/AlianaBayram/s…

Trees have a cooling effect, this is quite easy to understand. But their effect is considerbale: they can reduce the cities' surface temperature in the summer by up to 12°C [read more, study: buff.ly/3WTWyZO] [📷 Kraków dla Mieszkańców: buff.ly/3NrQUv7]

Incredible visualization of SpaceX’s launch and landing progress over the years from Michael Sheetz, well worth the watch.