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Apoorv Upreti

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Apoorv Upreti

13 Jul 2020 • 1 min read

Look through windows from around the world.

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Why Zebras Are Striped

Apparently stripes are a great way to avoid biting flies: Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack [https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0223447]. > The frequencies of fly-repelling behaviors in cows painted with black-and-white stripes

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Century-Old Video

A video [https://twitter.com/mikewarburton/status/1280405483334090752]taken in Halifax, England in 1902, colourised by modern technology. There's a whole series of such colourised videos from various cities in this [https://twitter.com/JoaquimCampa/status/1251243294157348864]Twitter thread.

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