American-born singer and dancer Josephine Baker was a beauty icon, civil rights activist and WW II spy. While living in Nazi-occupied France, she passed sensitive information that she overheard while performing to the French Resistance by writing on sheet music using invisible ink.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Kintsugi ('golden repair') is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with powdered gold. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, embracing flaws and imperfections rather than disguising them.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
These 'Beach Animals' were created by Theo Jansen as a fusion of art and engineering. The kinetic structures walk on their own and get all their energy from the wind.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Popsicles of pollution: design students from Taiwan made ice lollies from local waterways to increase environmental awareness.4yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Operation on a soldier during WW 1 using x-ray to locate the bullet. Below the operating table is the x-ray tube. The surgeon wears a fluoroscope which glows when x-rays strike it, making bullet fragments appear dark.4yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Popsicles of pollution: design students from Taiwan made ice lollies from local waterways to increase environmental awareness.4yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/DesignPorn
🔥 De-stress with my bedroom view of these golden Autumn leaves. 🌈3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
Dr. Porfyrakis holding a model of the most expensive material in the world, selling at $167 million per gram. This compound, N@C60, is a fullerene with a nitrogen atom trapped in the middle. It is used in miniature atomic clocks. More in comments.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/chemistry
LifeHack: Visualize multiplication problems using lines with this cool Japanese method3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Here's another Art Deco train: The Duchess of Hamilton (1938). These Streamliners were the predecessors to our current Bullet Trains.4yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/DesignPorn
Here's another Art Deco train: The Duchess of Hamilton (1938). These Streamliners were the predecessors to our current Bullet Trains.4yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Early medical film using x-ray to investigate the digestive system (Germany, 1936)4yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Meet Lonnie Johnson, inventor of the Super Soaker. Right: A schematic of his original design. Johnson came up with this idea while working on a cooling system for the US Air Force which could run on water instead of Freon.4yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Einstein after meeting Chaplin in 1931: What I most admire about your art, is your universality. You don’t say a word, yet the world understands you! Chaplin: True. But your glory is even greater! The whole world admires you, even though they don’t understand a word of what you say.4yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/funny
Himalayan salt mines are wild. The salt gets its rosy hue from trace minerals, like magnesium, potassium and calcium. More info in the comments.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
This unstoppable Game Boy survived a bombing during the Gulf War and is still running Tetris in the Nintendo World Store in NYC.4yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Just connected my new car to my 7kWp solar installation. I'm in love! 😍1yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/electricvehicles
It is rumoured that Shrek was inspired by a French wrestler from the 1930s named Maurice Tillet. You have to admit, it is kind of uncanny. He suffered from acromegaly, a hormone disorder that causes the bones to lengthen and thicken.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Texas mom throws knives at her daughters in their suburban backyard (1950s newsreel)4yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
This is the molecular machine that duplicates DNA before cell division. It spins as fast as a jet engine adding 1,000 nucleotides per second to the growing chain and only makes 1 mistake every 100,000 couplings! More in the comments.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Himalayan salt mines are pretty. The salt gets its rosy hue from trace minerals, like magnesium, potassium and calcium. More info in the comments.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Katherine Johnson (August 1918 – February 2020) was a mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first U.S. crewed spaceflights and flights to the moon. She is seen here receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Every evil genius needs one of these. Build instructions in the comments.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Derailment at Montparnasse terminus, Paris (1895). The train was late and the driver tried to make up for lost time. Entering the station too fast, the train's air brake failed to stop it. Six were injured; a woman in the street below was killed.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Einstein after meeting Chaplin in 1931: What I most admire about your art, is your universality. You don’t say a word, yet the world understands you! Chaplin: True. But your glory is even greater! The whole world admires you, even though they don’t understand a word of what you say.4yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Color photo of late 19th century Constantinople (now Istanbul) using the Photochrom technique. This painstaking process uses lithographic limestone tablets for each tint that is added to the initial black & white image. A surprisingly realistic window into the waning days of the Ottoman Empire.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Dr. Porfyrakis holding a model of the most expensive material in the world, selling at $167 million per gram. This compound, N@C60, is a cage-like carbon structure resembling a soccer ball with a trapped nitrogen atom in the middle. It is used in miniature atomic clocks. More in comments.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Thomas Edison poses with his first electric car, the Edison Baker, and one of its batteries (1895).3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Anti-government protest last week in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (pic by Valerie Baeriswyl)3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/pics
The European space agency ESA just signed a project of €86M with ClearSpace to develop a satellite that can clean-up space debris. The prototype is set to launch in 2025; here an artist's impression of that mission.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/spaceporn
Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016. That's barely enough to buy 188 Big Macs.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/pics
In 1914, Chester MacDuffee constructed the first diving suit with ball bearings, as the medium to provide movement to a joint. The suit was tested in New York at 214 feet of water.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
My hometown in the Netherlands build this UFO landing site in 2003. When you approach the city from the highway, you pass the roundabout with the control tower on the upper left corner and follow the landing strip with the blue lights. Unfortunately, we haven't had visitors from outer space yet.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
My 10 year old son is making on a platform game. He just finished programming the core mechanics. Yesterday we designed the main character together. What do you think?4yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/scratch
Collected some trash on my bike today: 13 kg in just 2 hours over a stretch of 6 km.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/nextfuckinglevel
Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/pics
The first bonsai I potted and wired myself. Still trying to learn, so all feedback is welcome.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/Bonsai
Recrystallized callus remover as seen under the microscope with polarized light (by Marek Mis)3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/chemistry
Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta) is a self-proclaimed wizard. His comic Promethea was his most powerful spell and was intended to end the world. More in the comments.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/comicbooks
Extinction Rebellion protesters pretend to be dead outside Buckingham Palace on Saturday. More than 600 people have been arrested during five days of climate crisis protests in central London.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
This chair by Erik Klarenbeek uses mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms, to bind together organic agricultural byproducts to produce durable and 100% compostable materials with a negative carbon footprint. 3D printing was used to create a natural form that echoes harmony. More in the comments.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta) is a self-proclaimed wizard. His comic Promethea was his most powerful spell and was intended to end the world. More in the comments.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
In 1900, George Lawrence built the biggest camera in the world (at 1,400 pounds) to photograph “the handsomest train in the world”. Background and end result in the comments.4yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016. That barely enough to buy 188 Big Macs. Source in the comments.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Myra-Rose Craig, 18, protesting climate change on Arctic ice. On Sep 15 sea ice reached its second lowest extent since record-keeping.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Collected some trash on my bike today: 13 kg in just 2 hours over a stretch of 6 km.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/pics
Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016. An average truck driver pays 8 times as much.3yr ⋅ DrDolce ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
