Hacking Science

01/31/2025

Completely irresponsible waxwing birds 🐦🐦🐦 tend to eat fermented fruit and then lie drunk on the sidewalks.
Wise passers-by collect them and put them in a safe place until they sober up.

01/31/2025

In Germany, they build the wall with solar panels because they are cheaper than wood and bricks.

01/29/2025

01/27/2025

No, he’s not a vagrant. 😱😱
This is Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman, the brilliant mathematician who solved one of the most challenging problems in history. A Russian blogger captured his photo in the St. Petersburg metro, showing him with unkempt hair, a scruffy beard, and worn-out shoes—an appearance that might lead some to mistake him for a beggar.

Perelman was awarded a $1 million prize by the Clay Mathematics Institute for solving Poincaré's conjecture, but he declined the reward, stating: "If the solution is correct, no further recognition is necessary." To this day, Poincaré's conjecture remains the only solved Millennium Prize Problem.

Despite being hailed as one of the most significant mathematicians of our time, Perelman withdrew from the scientific community and severed ties with his colleagues, choosing a life of seclusion. His story is a poignant reminder that monumental scientific achievements often come with solitude.

In St. Petersburg, young people have started wearing T-shirts bearing his image and the phrase: "You can't buy everything." By rejecting societal norms and the expectations of the academic world, Perelman achieved unparalleled success while living a life of simplicity and isolation.

01/25/2025

I don’t usually grow sweet potatoes because they require starting in water, and I think they look like an army of Alien hatchlings making a break for it 😱

Don’t know how anyone could sleep with sweet potatoes in the house 😬

Not my photo. Found this Horror Show in a garden group. Bloody nightmares, that.

Look at that fu**er bottom right. 100% coming to rip off your face 🫥

01/25/2025

A rare sea slug that can photosynthesize like a plant is the eastern emerald Elysia (Elysia Chlorotica). It may turn sunlight into energy by absorbing chloroplasts from the algae it eats (Vaucheria Litorea). Depending just on sunlight, some species can go up to a year without eating. Because of the stored chloroplasts, it has a green tint that acts as camouflage to keep predators away.
The slug, which may reach a length of 60 mm, lives in shallow water environments including tidal pools and salt marshes. The distinction between plants and animals is blurred by this amazing adaptation, which also provides fresh information on photosynthesis and energy efficiency.

01/22/2025

A Whole Life for a Spoonful of Honey ♥️
Bees have two stomachs—one for eating and another for storing nectar, which they transform into honey, also known as piq.
A bee lives less than 40 days, visits over 1,000 flowers, and produces less than a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime. For us, it's just a spoonful of honey, but for the bee, it represents the story of its entire life.

01/21/2025

It’s going to be a planet parade supernova in the sky 🤯🪐

01/13/2025

In northern Japan and the forests of China you can see these flowers that look normal but when they come into contact with water their petals become transparent.
Its name is skeleton flower or glass flower, its scientific name is Diphylleia grayi.

01/10/2025

Tree on Banks Peninsula, New Zealand.
The tree has grown into the shape of a brush, blown by strong winds over the years The trees grow sideways due to the strong winds, in fact it is one of the windiest places in the world.