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What two drifting continental plates look like
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This is what it looks like to swim between two continental plates. The Silfra fissure in Iceland separates the North American and Eurasian plates, which drift two cm away from each other every year, causing earthquakes about once per decade.
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Does your manager have a 'morning bias'?
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A new study has shown that managers rate workers who get an early start higher than those who get in and stay later, no matter how good they are at their jobs, or how many hours they work in total. So, no matter what your boss says about flex-time, get to work early!
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Strangest dish you'll ever eat
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A restaurant in Japan has created a new dish where the squid comes “back to life” and “dances” on your plate. The dish is called Odori don. Basically the dish is a rice bowl topped with a whole fresh squid (minus the head). When soy sauce is poured on the squid, a chemical reaction occurs that causes the squid’s tentacles to squirm around in the bowl, making the squid appear as if it is dancing a jig!
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Foxfire or Firefox, take your pick!
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Foxfire, also called "fairy fire" is a crazy glow in the dark fungus. The bluish-green glow is attributed to luciferase, an oxidative enzyme, which emits light as it reacts with luciferin. It is widely believed that the light attracts insects to spread spores, or acts as a warning to hungry animals, like the bright colors exhibited by some poisonous or unpalatable animal species. Although generally very dim, in some cases foxfire is bright enough to read by. ...
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What happens when you combine a mole, a lizard, and a worm?
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The Mexican mole lizard is a pink, lizard-like reptile that ranges in length between 18 to 24 cm, but doesn't live very long - a longevity of one to two years. Their skin is closely segmented to give a corrugated appearance, and like earthworms, their underground movement is by peristalsis of the segments. The forelegs are strong and paddle-like, while the hindlegs have disappeared, leaving behind only vestigial bones visible in X-rays.
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Professional leaf roller
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This leaf-rolling weevil has made the meticulously rolled nest it's standing on without silk or adhesives, simply by using cuts, crimps and creases.
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Check out the lyrebird's complex song and dance displays
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Lyrebird are most notable for their superb ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment. As well as their extraordinary mimicking ability, lyrebirds are notable because of the striking beauty of the male bird's huge tail when it is fanned out in display; and also because of their courtship display. Lyrebirds have unique plumes of neutral coloured tailfeathers and are among Australia's best-known native birds.
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World's tiniest comic carved on a human hair!
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Advances in technology have given rise to an abundance of ways to share our stories. Created for the Exceptional Hardware Software Meeting (EHSM) in Germany next month, "Juanita Knits the Planet" is the world's smallest comic strip, detailing a day in the life of Juanita, a ten micron-tall girl-turned-robot. Long story short, this is done by blasting a stream of electrons at the surface of the hair, stripping away tiny layers of it. The electrons are directed using a tiny tube.
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