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Parting is such sweet sorrow…This is it, our last post. It’s not you, it’s us. We’re sorry it had to end this way. We’ve had a wonderful time laughing at Pokémon GO memes, learning about cool robots, and getting excited about house plants with you...

Parting is such sweet sorrow…

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TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY: This building in Austria changes shape every hour

Things I’d never thought I’d say: “I like the way this BUILDING moves”. 

This is the Kiefer Technic Showroom, a building whose moving facade was designed by Ernst Giselbrecht + Partner. Its wall panels can move automatically or manually in order to control building temperature and sunlight.

Learn more about the building in our full video.

THESE PLANTS ARE LIVING THEIR BEST LIVES: Rollin’ through life as happy as can be

Oh sh*t, whaddup it’s dat ball.

This whimsical concept was created by William Victor Camilleri and Danilo Sampaio, as a part of the Interactive Architecture Lab’s reEarth Project. This ball of plants offsets its own balance to move in the direction of the most happiness sunshine for the plants.

Check out the full video on our site.

teded: “ It’s easy to forget how vast and deep the ocean really is. About 60% of it is actually a cold and dark region known as the deep ocean. And it reaches down to 11,000 meters. Yet, this remote zone is also one of the greatest habitats on Earth,...

teded:

It’s easy to forget how vast and deep the ocean really is. About 60% of it is actually a cold and dark region known as the deep ocean. And it reaches down to 11,000 meters. Yet, this remote zone is also one of the greatest habitats on Earth, harboring a huge diversity of life, from giant squids and goblin sharks to minuscule animals smaller than a millimeter. How do so many species thrive in this underwater world? Over the decades, intrepid scientists have ventured there to find out. Traveling down through the water column, pressure increases and light begins to wane. At 200 meters, photosynthesis stops and temperature decreases from surface temperatures by up to 20 degrees Celsius. By 1000 meters, normal sunlight has disappeared altogether. Without light, life as we know it seems impossible.

But, plunge deep enough and you’ll find fish with cavernous mouths, spiky teeth jutting from their jaws, and lamp-like structures protruding from their heads, like the anglerfish which entices prey with its misleading glow. What else calls the deep ocean home?

Explore more of the deep ocean in the TED-Ed Lesson The otherworldly creatures in the ocean’s deepest depths - Lidia Lins

Animation by Viviane Leezer

GROSS BUT HELPFUL: Use this field guide to identify mosquitoes that carry the Zika virus

Mosquitoes may need to suck our blood for their survival but that doesn’t mean that they don’t well, suck. Luckily, we have this handy guide for y’all to identify if that mosquito that just bit you is carrying Zika or not.

Check out our full article for the complete breakdown of each of these mosquitoes.