Located in the Kashgar region of Xinjiang, China, the Panlong Ancient Road is 75 km long with more than 600 S-turns, many of which are 180°, on the Pamir Plateau about 4,100 meters on the sea level

[📹 mychinatrip]

Bringing the human body to the extreme

[📹 Stefanie Millinger]

Ijen volcano, Indonesia

The mineral pyrite also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS₂. It can be found in nature with almost perfect cubic formations like these ones.

[📹 Rocks for the Spirit]
[📍 Navajún, Spain]

Making a miniature city on a CCTV camera inspired by George Orwell’s 1984

[📹 Filipe Miranda / miniaturemodelmaking]

Kataifi is a noodle used to bake traditional sweet pastry like kanafeh.

This is how kataifi is spun.

A 3 meter (11 foot) sneaker wave that hit Leblon beach in Rio de Janeiro.

An impressive compilation of Alberto Magrí pastries and bakery artworks

[📹 pastrychef_am]

The story of Zinaida Portnova, the 16 year old girl who took the lives of more than 100 Nazis by poisoning their food. She was captured by the Gestapo, and while being interrogated, she disarmed the Nazi detective and shot him in the head. In her attempt to escape, she executed…

Hiroshima bombing

[🎞️ Hashem Al-Ghaili]

Building a wood-burning stove in rural China

A rare mutation among the Bajau people of Malaysia and Philippines lets them stay underwater longer.

Natural selection at the PDE10A gene has increased spleen size in the Bajau, providing them with a larger reservoir of oxygenated red blood cells.

Some useful functions of your iPhone you may not know

[🎞️ appledsign]

The amazing mechanics of how bee stingers work

[🎞️ Jon Perry / StatedClearly]

The Eyre Highway in Australia is the longest straight stretch of road in the world: 147 km without bends.

[📹 tomvanderwoods]

By digging these types of holes, people in Arusha Tanzania, managed to transform a desertic region into a sprouting savanna.

[📹 LEAD Foundation]

Mercator map distortion visualized.

[source, read more: buff.ly/3HGVLme]

Dubbed 'The most interesting moth in the world,' the incredible Picasso moth (Baorisa hieroglyphica) is a rare beauty found in India and Asia.

[📸 msone]

Emperor penguins survive temperatures of -60°C thanks to their feathers, densely packed as seen in these pictures.

On average, about 25% of elephant seal pups die during their first month and most part of them dies at birth. No surprise this mother thought her newborn pup was dead.

But when she finds the baby is alive, her joy is unbounded

[📹 Protect all wildlife]