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The Silver Swan automaton, crafted in London around 1773 by clockmaker James Cox and inventor John Joseph Merlin to mimic a real swan's movements and feeding.
It has over 2,000 moving parts and is the main attraction at Bowes Museum, England.
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This turtle swam straight toward a fisherman seeking help, its mouth covered in thick barnacles. During the cleaning process, it stayed incredibly calm and obedient, as if it understood that the person in front of it was trying to help.
Until the very end, when it took a deep breath and dove back into the sea, that moment made all the effort feel completely worth it.
POV: Sometimes, helping is the real reward.
Source: cosy_joe #globalmuseum
How Google Maps is shaping where we eat.
Josh Toussaint-Strauss discovers that great restaurants are disappearing on Google Maps, despite having lots of reviews and high ratings, so he sets out to get to the bottom of it and finds out that what Google Maps shows us isn't necessarily what we want to see
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2026/mar/19/how-google-maps-is-shaping-where-we-eat-video?utm_source=globalmuseum #globalmuseum #googlemaps #restaurants
The art of Pysanky: traditional egg decorating from Europe
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This remarkable colour photograph of hot air balloons at the inaugural Paris Air Show was taken in 1909 by LĂ©on Gimpel, using the Autochrome LumiĂšre process, the first commercial process for colour photography #globalmuseum #photography #Paris #Ballooning
Witness the astonishing trap feeding behavior of Eden's Whale in the Gulf of Thailand. Nature's wonders continue to amaze us every day.
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This raven understanding that dropping objects into water raises the water level is termed as causal reasoning.
Ravens can remember specific people's faces for years, especially if someone has been kind to them or posed a threat.
Also If a particular method helped them solve a problem before, they are likely to use it again in a similar situation.
Their memory works together with their intelligence.
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The urge to keep all the tabs open is not a recent thing.
Pictured: a 300-year-old library tool that enabled a researcher to have seven books open at once, yet conveniently nearby (Palafoxiana Library, Puebla)
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This is a Ruckers mother-and-child virginalâa 17th-century keyboard instrument with a second, smaller instrument built into it, tuned an octave higher. The âchildâ could be pulled out to play duets or set on top of the âmotherâ to add a jangly, buzzing color to the main soundâa Renaissance-era layering trick, centuries before mixing desks. Antwerp instrument makers were doing this in the 1600s.
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