It's all fine and good to just enjoy the scenery from time to time, but there's usually something going on below the surface that's even more interesting. It might take a second glance or even a third to realize that something worth noticing is even there, however.
And sometimes something plainly amazing is happening, and it's just not clear exactly what is happening, or why. Here's hoping we can get a few answers.
That's because the work the journal Nature decided to reject on this occasion ended up winning the 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine. It's entirely possible that the rejection led to reviews that improved the work, but even if it didn't, it just goes to show that perseverance pays off.
This Ph.D. candidate made a skirt out of rejection letters she had accumulated during the process and wore it to her dissertation defense, like wearing armor made from vanquished foes into battle.
The water filling the streets is remarkably clear and free of debris, underscoring just how clean and trash-free the streets are kept there.
For the first time in 40 years, Iranian women are allowed inside football stadiums to watch games live. Iran still has a long way to go in granting rights to women, but every step in the right direction is welcome.
However, much like with blood, the iron content in the water gives it a reddish hue when sunlight shines through.
Just in case you ever doubted that beer bottles get washed and re-used after you return them, someone carved their name into this bottle and it got re-used and re-sold with the name still on it.
The neighbor's frost-less grass is an inch longer. As one Redditor explained, "The grass works like the hairs on your body... The longer it is, the more warm air trapped." Just warm enough to keep the frost at bay, obviously.
And now, in the autumn, the two halves are changing color at a different rate. Most likely, the changed half is getting less nutrients and water, and will soon die.
In case you were wondering what the aftermath of a cactus being struck by lightning looks like, here you go. It's pretty dramatic.
What could possibly leave the wood looking like spaghetti in tomato sauce? Wood burls, which typically form after a tree endures some kind of stress like a viral or fungal infection.
It's odd to see one weird cloud hovering overhead like that, but it's an example of a lenticular cloud, which have been known to be mistaken for UFOs.
A heavy storm like a typhoon can cause the air to become super-saturated, and light passing through it at sunset will be scattered in a way that makes violet the dominant color.
The aptly-named Brazilian rainbow boa's scales contain microscopic ridges that reflect and scatter light, causing that cool little rainbow to appear.
They are called, of course, skeleton sea squirts. They don't actually have skeletons.
The area around here flooded before the surface froze, and when the waters below receded, ice rings were left around the tree trunks.
Not only did the man in this photo post it to celebrate nine years of sobriety, but also in gaining custody of his son.
The photo on the right was taken a year later and both his sobriety and his son remain important parts of his life.
Apparently, Iraqi protesters are using lions as countermeasures in case police release dogs on them.
As you might see under the brand name, this model was old enough to have been manufactured in West Germany.
Although it's unclear when exactly it was made, it was sturdy enough to last at least 30 years.
When this person was burned by oil, the scab that later formed ended up taking part of their tattoo away.
As we can see, it's still there, but it looks as though someone tried to erase part of it.
These leaves came from a ginkgo tree, which is known to shed its leaves quickly in the event of a sudden drop in temperature.
In extreme cases like many experienced within this month, the leaves don't even have time to change color before falling.
For instance, here we see a piece that experienced years resprays before somebody finally replaced the top itself.
In case it's hard to make out, a spider crawled into the headphone port of somebody's phone.
I'm sorry to give you something else to obsessively check.
Apparently, this truck was featured in Ghostbusters and for whatever reason, this lot in Missouri has been known to acquire some old movie vehicles from time to time.
The man on the left is Sultan Kosen of Turkey, who stands at 8'3'. Jyoti Amge of India, however, stands at 2'1''.
Instead, we're seeing protesters shine a battery of laser pointers at a police drone to make it harder to control.
Once the pilot can't see where they're directing it, it's likely to crash as this one did.
Even if you look closely, it's hard to detect the lizard camouflaging itself among the wood here.
If you're stumped, it should help to find out that you can see its eye if you look above and slightly to the left of that black mark near the bottom.
However, if you were to time travel from the 1960s, both the options and the prices wouldn't seem out of place at all.
I guess the question is whether we'd rather pay these prices or be able to buy McNuggets.
The difference is in the technology used to show it as a scientist has developed an algorithm that expands on the traditional muted blues of underwater cameras and shows how colorful this scene really is.
These were made in chronological order, which means that it's possible to track the progression of their creator's Alzheimer's disease with them.
However, police in Birmingham, Alabama noticed it and were able to rescue the man inside the trunk, who was left in there for 14 hours after being stabbed and beaten.
What was a little harder to predict, however, is that this vending machine would not only stand in place for 20 years, but look as just as crisp as it did when it was first installed.
That's because he actually built this Waldo display intended to soothe sick children when they need to go to the hospital.
What we're seeing is a doctor showing off every picture his young patients drew of him over the years.
Apparently, that black ball lodged inside of it is a shotgun pellet.
A Dutch university student came up with the idea of building defibrillator drones, which can reach a medical emergency up to four times faster than a traditional ambulance.
It's a Savannah cat, the largest domestic cat breed in America, which actually began as a crossbreed between a domestic cat and a serval.
However, as attractive as it is, that purple hue is also bad news for the bug. It's caused by a virus that forms crystals beneath the bug's exoskeleton. So, yeah.
If you guessed pickle, you're correct! Personally, I think it looks more like one of my dog's chewed-up chew toys but apparently it's the beloved salty, briny snack.
It's actually for blind people to come feel out the shape and structure of the actual church that's just behind it. Notice the plaque at the bottom there with the braille.
Now they can also appreciate the beauty and incredible architecture of the real thing without being able to physically see it for themselves.
As it just so happens, this is a brand new 2020 car that hasn't been publicly released yet. So, to keep the mystery alive, it's being professionally driven through town completely hidden from the public's eye.
The poster took pictures of their study notes before and after being prescribed Adderall, and to say the effect is obvious is a total understatement.
It was originally part of a display featuring an actual tree (notice the stump behind the boy). But after the tree was removed, all that remained was the stone children, frozen in time with their play cut short. It almost becomes a sort of haunting memorial for that lost tree.
This is an entire indoor town built inside a nursing home so residents can roam around and enjoy "city life" without feeling like they're contained to their home. There's a move theater, a pub, shops, and more!
Those beads are spaced out like that for a reason, and quite an interesting one at that. The necklace actually spells out the wearer's name, "Sarah", in Morse code.
What you're looking at here is a brand new store on the day of its grand opening, and those shelves that are perfectly stocked are totally untouched by customers. Tell me the last time you ever visited the refrigeration aisle and saw it this pristine and orderly. You can't.
It marks an international border — Canada is to the right, and the good ol' U.S. of A. is on the left.
They both have a mole in the same — or at least equivalent — spot. I don't even want to begin to calculate the odds of that happening.
