Niall Hurley

Human... With at least 90% certainty

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

APOCALYPSE NOW was released in the US 45 years ago today. Francis Ford Coppola’s magnum opus is considered by many to be the definitive Vietnam War film. The production of the film is one of the most unbelievable stories in Hollywood history.

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[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

New year, new you

[Morgan Housel @morganhousel]

This is great @dailydirtnap.

https://t.co/xsvdOkNI7z

[Daily Stoic @dailystoic]

If you start your day with social media, the news, or email, realize: you're starting your day at the mercy of others.

Social media is others telling you what to think.

The news is others telling you what to read/watch.

Your inbox is others telling you what to do.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Ocean Farm 1 was the first offshore fish farm. It can contain 250,000 m³ in volume and withstand magnitude 12 earthquakes. About 20,000 sensors allow the marine site to achieve complete automation to mature up to 1.5 million fish in 14 months [read more: https://t.co/woa2jz0emp]

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

People around the world recorded the sounds of their forests, so you can escape into nature, if unable to go outside or reach a real forest. And while you are here, why not help grow what keeps us alive?

https://t.co/Ex4Hu2rVwz

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

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[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

From 2015 back to the Big Bang, in 12 tweets. Each subsequent timeline contains all the previous timelines.

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[Ahmad Algohbary @AhmadAlgohbary]

@elonmusk How silk is made!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Descension by Anish Kapoor depicts fluidity through water’s continuous swirling motion as it rushes down an 8 m (26 ft) diameter vortex representing a powerful physical form that is sucked into the earth

[read more: https://t.co/kdkcTh5AkD]

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Trends in mental health problems among US women and girls, 2001 to 2018. It's so obvious that something changed, and we all know what it is.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Thread of the greatest, funniest, and strangest self-portraits in art:

Desperation by Gustave Courbet (1843)

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Important note:

February has 28 days (7 x 4). Each day has 24 hours (8 x 3). Each hour has 60 minutes (6 x 5 x 2).

So February has 8! minutes. 8 x 7 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

What is going on with February?!

A brief history of why it only has 28 days:

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Automaton Robotics created this artificial muscles robotic arm operated by water, consuming 200W at peak. Dumbbell weights 7 kg (15,6 lbs) , forearm with hand only 1 kg (2,2 lbs)

[read more: https://t.co/hUWEHDoWm8]
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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Lobsters' color comes from astaxanthin, which binds to other proteins. Depending on those bonds, the shell gets a color. Blue lobster are extremely rare, with in about 100 million

[read more: https://t.co/w06zYb0F36]
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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

"Perfection": an ant rolling a water droplet on a rough surface, an example of ideal nonwetting conditions

[source: https://t.co/7w1IbDTNIQ]

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is a a revolving column or earthquake scale. Originally designed by the ottoman architect Mimar Sinan (1490-1588) they are capable of detecting deformation in the structure after earthquakes. This is Dikili İzmir mosque, Turkey https://t.co/cWH9ldUDtd
https://t.co/kVEYHnocs1

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This bonsai tree, currently housed in the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, D.C, was planted in 1625, it's 398 years old and survived the bombing of Hiroshima, still growing today

[read more: https://t.co/stvHtY4J3w]

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

172 years ago #Today, the rotation of the Earth was experimentally proved by Leon Foucault. After weeks of work, he recorded in his journal that he made this discovery at 2:00 am working with a pendulum in the cellar of the house he shared with his mother https://t.co/l201dHCs2q