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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) by Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

Edit:
Just realized the correct name for the tree is actually maple.

False friend caused mistake because its name is "Ahorn" in German.
Keeping the heading as it is, because it is funny, although it might trigger the Canadians (sorry, dudes!).

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For anyone that doesn’t know it.. this is the video: https://youtu.be/9bZkp7q19f0

Opa Gangnam Style!

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Indeed (feddit.org)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45608704

The White House Situation Room is a conference room and intelligence management center in the basement of the West Wing of the White House.

Author: The White House

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45572977

Do we run differently in space than we do on Earth? The answer may surprise you. NASA Public Affairs Officer Lori Meggs talks with John DeWitt, principal investigator for the Treadmill Kinematics experiment aboard the International Space Station. Treadmill Kinematics is the first rigorous investigation to quantify the biomechanics of treadmill exercise conditions during long duration space flight on the station.

Author: NASA

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Five child soldiers of WW2 (www.mentalfloss.com)
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This is a followup of: https://sh.itjust.works/post/48867881

Photo description: The acorn is missing now in the hole the animal made in the remnants of the Edelweiss that died last year in the flower pot with red houseleek and some grass coming out. The grass has flowers now and the housleek grew bigger, as the winter is over.

Another, darker shot of the hole in the flower pot

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Shed exploration (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

This is an organic situation like, im just posting. Let's talk Disasters

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It was a rainy day and I took a small broken off piece home for some macro-photography. This lichen, also called coral lichen or Cladia retipora has a slow-growing, highly absorbent lattice-like structure. The colonies expand at only a few millimeters a year, and normally I find little buds about the size of a golf ball, so to find a granite outcrop with 100+ domes each about the size of a basketball hemisphere was pretty rare. It had just rained too, so they have absorbed a ton of water. In the close-up you can see how the structure interacts with the surface tension of water to hold water droplets within the lattice itself, not just absorbed into the body of the lichen.

This species are unique to my part of the world so its pretty exciting to find such a huge undisturbed colony.

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Source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/terms-of-service-visualizing-the-length-of-internet-agreements/

Terms of Service: The Length of Common Digital Contracts Do you take the time to read the terms of service before you agree to when downloading the latest app or software?

Of course you do…

The world is awash with apps and internet services that ask potential users to agree to a service agreement. Most people click on ‘agree’ and move on, knowing that reading the service agreements could put them to sleep and defer their favorite internet fix.

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