All day Astronomy 🌍 Earth is not a sphere. It never was. It bulges at the equator by 43 kilometers due to rotational force. It's flattened at the poles. It has a dent near India where gravity is measurably weaker. GPS satellites have to correct for gravitational variation constantly otherwise

BREAKING🚨: NASA Mapped the Entire Ocean floor using Gravity from Space.😮

In the 1950s, Irving Penn traveled across London, Paris, and NYC to take portraits of workers in their work clothes. These clothes at the time were not considered glamorous — they would not have shown up on fashion runways — but they demonstrate a simple aesthetic principle 🧵

In 1900, Paris’ Exposition Universelle featured a 3.5 kilometer wooden moving walkway, captured on film by Auguste and Louis Lumière.

All on a rock flying through space.

A Polish dance group, Fair Play Crew, drew global attention by recreating on stage the stiff and synchronized movements of 1980s fighting video games, such as the classic International Karate. I've seen this so many times, still cracks me up 😂

Open Reel Ensemble performs a trio piece on the Jigakkyu, a custom folk instrument that generates shimmering analog sounds by bowing magnetic tape stretched across bamboo frames, with playback controlled via reel-to-reel tape recorders, August 2025.

1923 VIAG "wheelless truck": 5t payload, articulated legs, forgotten Dieselpunk proto! Smooth 40s orig. footage. #TechHistory #Steampunk

A truck carrying antiprotons will drive across Europe. A team at CERN just transported antimatter across the laboratory's campus in a truck. Literally. 92 antiprotons packed into a portable trap weighing one tonne. As everyone knows, antimatter annihilates on contact with

Cloud pruning began in Japan, as part of niwaki — the practice of shaping “garden trees” into sculptural forms.

A beaver caught on camera in America’s New Jersey hauling an entire tree and causing a traffic jam...🦫

A remarkable 19th-century tunnel book that brings the Rhine Valley to life, masterfully creating an illusion of three-dimensional depth and vast spatial distance

I bet most of you have never seen this kind of botanical collection book, especially one focused on orchids. 🌸🌼🏵️📖 It doesn’t feel like just a book. It feels like a small treasure you don’t find every day. It worth watching this video till the end. 📹 The Huntington

A French acrobat by the name of Bastien Dausse developed a device that simulates lunar gravity

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

A striking fusion of state propaganda and modernist design, Nippon (1937) is one of the most ambitious Japanese photobooks of the interwar era—and a high point of both modernist bookmaking and cultural messaging. Photos become maps! See the entire book davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s…

How different martial arts styles navigate and overcome obstacles

Historic! This is the highest quality video ever taken of the moon!

Sultan the Pit Pony, this massive earth sculpture was created to honor the ponies that lived and worked in the old colliery in Caerphilly, South Wales.