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He can't flash shiny fins to attract passing females, so, instead he creates incredibly detailed artwork in the sand through the careful and methodical strokes of his fins. It takes him a week of working nonstop while battling the current, but the precision of the resulting design is nothing short of astounding.====== media type="youtube" key="p1PID91sEW8" width="560" height="315"

__** Brainy Octopus and its Coconut **__ The footage, shot by a diver in Lembeh, Indonesia April 2015, shows the a small octopus, known as the ‘coconut octopus’ because of its habit of using coconuts and shells to protect itself. It’s found on sandy bottoms in bays or lagoons in tropical waters of the western Pacific Ocean. More and more research is revealing that humans aren’t the only animals that use tools – chimpanzees, dolphins, and crows – use tools as well. But what about an octopus? Is the coconut octopus using tools? Some scientists say yes. Researchers from the Melbourne Museum in Australia claimed the coconut octopus uses tools for concealment and defense by gathering available debris to create a defensive fortress. The researchers filmed octopuses collecting coconut half-shells discarded by humans from the sea floor. The octopuses carried the shells for up to 20 meters (66 ft) and arranged them around the body to form a hiding place. media type="youtube" key="zaE-LwDowcU" width="560" height="315"

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 * Bottom line: According to Wayne Potts, a zoologist who published in the journal Nature in 1984, birds in flocks are able to change direction quickly not just because they are following a leader, or their neighbors, but because they see a movement far down the line and anticipate what to do next. Potts called this the chorus-line hypothesis for bird movement.

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**World's first fully hand-painted film honors Vincent van Gogh**
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Here is a fascinating video of a camera capturing the motion of light. media type="custom" key="25976252"

What is a moon tetrad? Find out in this video. media type="custom" key="25683942"

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Here are some podcasts that you can check out if you see a topic that looks interesting to you. I suggest you try taking a break from the hectic, multi-tasking, over-stimulating world we live in and sit back, close your eyes and just listen to one of the podcasts below. It will be a bit like going back before TV, to the years of the radio, when a person's mind painted the pictures of the faces and the scenes to accompany the voices they heard and the stories that were told... except for the fact that these are all about science. media type="custom" key="8187784" ​

Check out these couple news segments about the earth-like planet that has been discovered.

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This is a neat video that really makes you think about gravity. []

This site contains a good video by who else but Bill Nye The Sicence Guy! []

Here is an intriguing bit about "The Bloom Box", which is claimed to be to energy use what the cell phone has become to technology use.

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This is why we teach you science... so you don't end up like this guy. media type="file" key="will ferrell harry caray..flv" width="605" height="370" Will Ferrell's Harry Caray

Here is the link to a neat video about the longest, fastest fall to Earth. []

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Here is Felix Baumgartner breaking the record skydive from 1960. The video is the original footage so it is grainy, but still pretty cool. Can you imagine what it must have been like to take that step out of the capsule? media type="youtube" key="zOk7MO99ETI" height="315" width="560"

And, as long as we're on the subject of falling, check out these guys and their wingsuits. [] media type="youtube" key="QiXNxlM4BeE" height="390" width="480" Or... media type="custom" key="12402238"

A high school girl contributes to a cure for cancer. This video is a great example of how the sky is the limit and the power of a good idea. media type="custom" key="12189740"

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Alternative Energy from PLANTS?? media type="youtube" key="Ku1-_MOzkTE" width="560" height="315"

This video gives you an appreciation for some of the little-known training that went in to the first moon landing: media type="youtube" key="OlJGQ92IgFk" width="560" height="315"

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 * This is a classic in science fiction and made history at it's radio debut on October 30, 1938. Many radio listeners mistakenly believed that we were really being attacked by aliens!**

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 * This is what Mr. and Mrs. Kramer do with their after school hours!**

> > __**June 1****,** **2015**__ Something a little different – ever been in water that sparkles and glows? For the past week, some beaches in southern Tasmania have been illuminating this awesome blue; thanks to noctiluca scintillans, a bioluminescent phytoplankton! Yep, the color and light is 100% natural. Pretty neat, eh! Commonly referred to as ‘sea sparkles’, it’s exactly as that name suggests: stir up the water, or watch the waves, and the water glistens, glows and absolutely sparkles! And don’t miss the video below, also by Paul Fleming, captured as he walked through the bioluminescent waves. media type="youtube" key="jsJSENbgF64" width="560" height="315"

 During a recent expedition to the Gulf of California scientists from MBARI discovered a new field of hydrothermal vents, the deepest yet discovered in the Gulf of California. These new hydrothermal vent fields were found over thirty-eight hundred meters below the surface in the Pescadero Basin, located off the east coast of Mexico’s Baja California, about one hundred miles east of La Paz. These hydrothermal vents result from a unique combination of geology and chemistry. Using a remotely operated vehicle, researchers found towering white columns emitting geysers of clear shimmering liquid with temperatures up to 290 degrees Celsius. The superheated water flowing from these vents starts deep underground. As the hot water rises, it flows through and reacts with the surrounding bedrock, becoming saturated with carbonate minerals, which build up over time to form the large chimneys that were observed.
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media type="youtube" key="8RhOrKrNv2M" width="560" height="315"   ** The solar system to scale. **Interesting video about creating a model of our solar system that is actually to scale. How cool a feat is that? It requires __**7 miles of uninterrupted space**__ to pull it off!

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This gorgeous timelapse was created by Jack Fusco. He calls it // Wonder Endlessly //. Jack said:

The title is a reflection of the desire to always seek new adventures. There are few things that can match the overwhelming sense of wonder felt when you’re looking up at a sky full of stars. Keeping that strong sense of wonder is what makes me want to head in to the middle of nowhere in the dark, to climb across wet rocks and dodge waves to capture something new. How did he create it? Jack said: > "Hours of scouting and planning went in to each of the 26 different sequences in the video. Some were planned months in advance to coordinate the tide with right moon phase." media type="vimeo" key="150858024" height="281" width="500"

=From EarthSky.org:= This video was published on YouTube on May 12, 2013. We’re republishing it today, January 11, 2016, to honor the inimitable David Bowie (who died yesterday). It’s a version of David Bowie’s // Space Oddity //, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station. Yes, it’s actually Hadfield on guitar and vocals … media type="youtube" key="KaOC9danxNo" width="560" height="315" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">__**Thursday 2-11-16**__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">**Take a listen to the announcement of the detection of evidence proving the existence of gravitational waves:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">media type="youtube" key="n5Ycv2yYNG8" width="560" height="315" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">**PhD Comics puts this historic discovery into terms we can begin to understand:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">media type="youtube" key="4GbWfNHtHRg" width="560" height="315" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">**Even simpler terms from the evening news broadcast of the announcement of evidence for gravitational waves:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">[|CBS Evening News - Gravitational Waves] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> ==<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #404040; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans',HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 28px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rare superbloom in California’s Death valley == <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Parts of California’s Death Valley, the driest place in North America, are blanketed in wildflowers of yellow, purple, pink and white, a so-called “superbloom” not seen since 2005. Death Valley is the hottest place on Earth and the driest place in North America, averaging about 5 centimeters (2 inches) of rain per year. Summer temperatures in the valley, which contains the lowest point in the United States, can reach 49 degrees Celsius (120 degrees Fahrenheit). Most of the time, the landscape is stark – salt flats, sand dunes and rocky mountains with a few hardy shrubs and small trees. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">This year’s profusion of colorful flowers happened due to a perfect combination of autumn rains, warm temperatures and reduced winds. This year’s intense El Niño has also brought more rain than usual to the valley. El Nino can affect Death Valley by shifting the track of winter and spring storms into the area. Previous superblooms of 1998 and 2005 also happened occurred in El Nino years.

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans',HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Gorgeous 5-minute video of the northern lights in February and March 2016 – captured in still images, panoramas, time-lapse and real-time videos. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">media type="vimeo" key="159548093" height="281" width="500" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">**_** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> **A Mercury Transit Music Video from SDO** media type="youtube" key="8J4LoX3eOWc" width="560" height="315" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
 * Video Credit:** [|NASA]'s [|Goddard Space Flight Center], [|Genna Duberstein]; //Music:// [|Encompass] by [|Mark Petrie]
 * Explanation:** What's that small black dot moving across the Sun? [|Mercury]. Possibly the clearest view of [|Mercury crossing] in front of the Sun earlier this week was from Earth orbit. The [|Solar Dynamics Observatory] obtained an uninterrupted vista [|recording it] not only in optical light but also in bands of ultraviolet light. [|Featured here] is a composite movie of the crossing set to music. Although the event might prove [|successful scientifically] for better determining components of Mercury' ultra-thin atmosphere, the event surely proved [|successful culturally] by involving [|people throughout the world] in observing a rare astronomical phenomenon. [|Many spectacular images] of this [|Mercury transit] from around (and above) the globe are being [|proudly][|displayed].

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> = Astronomy Picture of the Day = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: #f4f4ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-center;"> 2016 May 13



**ISS and Mercury Too**

**Image Credit & [|Copyright]:**[|Thierry Legault]
 * Explanation:** [|Transits of Mercury] are relatively rare. Monday's leisurely 7.5 hour long event was only the 2nd of 14 Mercury transits in the 21st century. If you're willing to travel, [|transits of the International Space Station] can be more frequent though, and much quicker. [|This sharp video frame composite]was taken from a well-chosen location in Philadelphia, USA. It follows the space station, moving from upper right to lower left, as it crossed the Sun's disk in 0.6 //seconds.// [|Mercury too] is included as the small, round, almost stationary silhouette just below center. In apparent size, the International Space Station looms larger [|from low Earth orbit], about 450 kilometers from Philadelphia. Mercury was about 84 million kilometers away. (Editor's note: [|The stunning video] includes another double transit, Mercury and a Pilatus PC12 aircraft. Even quicker than the ISS to cross the Sun, the aircraft was about 1 kilometer away.)