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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 👁️🧠 Did you know that your vision shuts down completely during rapid eye movements for about 2 hours of blindness each day? This phenomenon, called "saccadic suppression," prevents motion blur as your eyes jump between points.

Your brain creates the illusion of continuous vision by splicing together snapshots and predicting what should happen next—much like the persistence of vision in #animation.

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/Js15N

👁️🧠 Did you know that your vision shuts down completely during rapid eye movements for about 2 hours of blindness each day? This phenomenon, called "saccadic suppression," prevents motion blur as your eyes jump between points.

Your brain creates the illusion of continuous vision by splicing together snapshots and predicting what should happen next—much like the persistence of vision in #animation.

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/Js15N

📅🎵🎹 On this day in 1899: Duke Ellington, the groundbreaking #jazz composer and bandleader who wrote over 1,000 compositions, was born in #Washington, D.C.

His 1931 composition "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" was revolutionary for introducing the term "swing" into everyday language, predating the actual Swing Era by three years. Don't miss his historical 1965 performance with Ella Fitzgerald on The Ed Sullivan Show.

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/SMoEm

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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🧱🏗️😳 Can you balance over 3,000 Jenga blocks on ONE vertical piece? Meindert de Boer can.

His #physics defying Jenga tower uses 3,132 blocks balanced on just one piece. De Boer strategically and extremely patiently created triangular and plus-sign shapes in his structure, not just stacking them straight up.

"The triangle is the strongest shape of all shapes," points out de Boer, who spent several hours constructing this Guinness World Record tower.

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/GGFBO

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🎵🐺 How do you perform "Peter and the Wolf" with just five woodwinds? Yale's Wind Quintet shows us by cleverly adapting Prokofiev's orchestral score, including Peter's theme normally played by strings. Even more impressive: due to COVID restrictions, the musicians recorded separately without ever meeting in person or playing together.

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/wqOon

🧱🏗️😳 Can you balance over 3,000 Jenga blocks on ONE vertical piece? Meindert de Boer can.

His #physics defying Jenga tower uses 3,132 blocks balanced on just one piece. De Boer strategically and extremely patiently created triangular and plus-sign shapes in his structure, not just stacking them straight up.

"The triangle is the strongest shape of all shapes," points out de Boer, who spent several hours constructing this Guinness World Record tower.

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/GGFBO

🇯🇵🪵 The 1,400-year-old tradition of Kumiko woodworking demands extraordinary precision—parts must be accurate to within 0.1mm. Japanese craftsmen create almost 200 different patterns using just thin pieces of cedar or cypress wood held together by perfect tension.

The complementary technique of Mageki woodbending involves scoring wood with minute grooves, applying moisture, and carefully shaping curves that hold their form once dry.

👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/k

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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🧲🌡️ Super-cooled materials can become superconductors that float above magnets, but this is just the beginning of the quest for absolute #cold.

Dr. Helen Czerski shows how scientists discovered absolute zero (-273.15°C) by tracking how gas volume decreases with temperature. This theoretical limit leads to quantum states where materials behave in strange new ways, potentially revolutionizing computing.

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/WsRww

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🧲🌡️ Super-cooled materials can become superconductors that float above magnets, but this is just the beginning of the quest for absolute #cold.

Dr. Helen Czerski shows how scientists discovered absolute zero (-273.15°C) by tracking how gas volume decreases with temperature. This theoretical limit leads to quantum states where materials behave in strange new ways, potentially revolutionizing computing.

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/WsRww

#tksst#video#diy

📅 🔭🌌 On this day in 1990: The Hubble Space Telescope launched, revolutionizing our view of the cosmos despite a famously flawed mirror. When first images came back blurry, #NASA discovered the primary mirror was too flat by just 25.4 nanometers. After a dramatic 1993 repair mission, Hubble began capturing the #space imagery that has changed our understanding of the #universe.

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/25rMM

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💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 👐💫 What was once the realm of sci-fi like Minority Report, now UPNA researchers have created FlexiVol, a 3D volumetric display you can touch and manipulate directly with your hands. The system uses elastic diffuser bands that bend when touched while projecting thousands of images per second.

The #technology enables intuitive gestures like pinching to scale objects or swiping through #3D spaces without needing controllers or #VR glasses.

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/vdYZ5

🏗️🌿 The Nito Project shows how ancient #building methods create sturdy, beautiful structures using materials readily available from the #earth.

Stone, clay, bamboo, and straw are combined with techniques like adobe brick-making, cob #construction, and wattle and daub to create walls that are finished with clay plaster and decorative relief #designs—continuing a family tradition of teaching sustainable construction.

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/1C10U

👐💫 What was once the realm of sci-fi like Minority Report, now UPNA researchers have created FlexiVol, a 3D volumetric display you can touch and manipulate directly with your hands. The system uses elastic diffuser bands that bend when touched while projecting thousands of images per second.

The #technology enables intuitive gestures like pinching to scale objects or swiping through #3D spaces without needing controllers or #VR glasses.

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/vdYZ5