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Build and customize a powerful #fleet recruit iconic characters, #explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, forge alliances. Embark on your journey in the #startrek universe. https://startrekfleetcommand.com/.

Your Eyes Are Lying to You. The Hidden Truth About Human Vision: your brain constructs the world around you in real time. From light entering your eyes to neural signals becoming color, depth, and motion. A carefully crafted rendering. #sight.

What looks like a beautiful white desert in Bolivia is actually one of the most important scientific tools on Earth. Salar de Uyuni transforms into the world's largest natural mirror during the rainy season. #SalarDeUyuni #Bolivia.

Powered almost entirely by gravity and freshwater, the canal lifts massive ships over a continent through a synchronized rhythm of locks, gates, and flowing water. It is a living hydraulic system - a giant body of water that breathes #PanamaCanal.

Monoculture Is Fragile Landraces Fight Back: Modern agriculture depends on #monocultures - vast fields of identical crops built for efficiency, but dangerously vulnerable to climate change, drought, floods, pests, and disease. #agriculture.

The Science Behind Tea Towel Holders (It's Brilliant) Why doesn't a tea towel just slide to the floor? Gravity is pulling it down constantly - so what keeps it locked in place? A hidden battle between gravity and friction #teatowelholder.

Free 50 gig per month VPN with Firefox as of 7/5/2026 even if its temporary that's still pretty good. #firefox #vpn - https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/built-in-vpn/.

The National Museum of Computing, Viewers can move around the galleries looking at the machines and their descriptions with the added bonus of hyperlinks to video and explanations. #3dvirtualtour - https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=Vz8kCqGRjQA.

A surreal corner of Adult Swim, "Soup" is an experimental interactive click-and-drag visual graphic that invites users into a chaotic, ever-shifting digital collage. #3d #interactive https://www.adultswim.com/etcetera/soup/.

The Unexpected Importance of the #TrailingSlash For many using Unix-derived systems today, we take for granted that /some/path and /some/path/ are the same. https://tookmund.com/2022/04/importance-of-the-trailing-slash.