The Tasmanian Giant Crab is the king of crabs
Add the Tasmanian Giant Crab (Pseudocarcinus gigas) to one of the animals you’ll want to see in person one day. Moreover, the crab’s…
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Visualizing the hours of daylight in one year
Keep reading: Visualizing the hours of daylight in one yearReddit user harpalss used animation software D3 to create a beautiful visualization of the changing patterns of daylight in one year. This is how the user describes it: Equation to calculate the hours of daylight for a given day of year and latitude can be found here. The animation was built with D3. Both the northern…
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The spherical nature of the Earth
Keep reading: The spherical nature of the EarthThe world is round, and it has been for some time despite the rise of the flat earth movement. Take a look at some of the armillary spheres below, starting with the Chinese diagram from 1092. Even back then, they had could rationalize that the Earth adopted a round shape. The curvy nature of the…
