Beautiful News Daily - February 12th, 2020 - The Potential of Wind Power is Amazing (Narrated by Emma) Wind could supply all the power we need and more. Our electricity needs alone could be satisfied more than seven times over. All that’s needed? More turbines. We’re currently using less than one percent of wind’s potential. It’s China, in fact, that’s currently leading the way to a clean-energy world. Credits: David McCandless, InformationIsBeautiful.net. License: Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Source: https://informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnews/1130-wind-power-potential This video was auto generated using data and media from InformationIsBeautiful.net. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOZNQ3hfPpY

Wikipedia Picture of the Day - August 11th, 2020 - Kirinia roxelana (Narrated by Salli) Kirinia roxelana, the lattice brown, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae found in south-eastern Europe and the Near East. It is found in a variety of habitats such as warm, dry grassland and scrubland near woodland, forest verges, vineyards and olive groves, usually in association with rocks or stone walls. It is a large butterfly with a wing length of about 3 cm (1.2 in); adults are most commonly on the wing between May and July, while caterpillars feed on broad-leaved grasses. Like other members of its family, it stands on only four legs while the other two remain curled up. The wings are covered with minute scales, and their distinctive pattern help the butterfly protect itself by camouflage. This photograph shows a K. roxelana male resting on a rock in Mount Carmel National Park, Israel. Photograph credit: Gideon Pisanty Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2020-08-11 This video was auto generated using data and media from Wikipedia. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RzIRlxYg5o

Astronomy Picture of the Day - March 18th, 2024 - Comet Pons-Brooks' Swirling Coma (Narrated by Emma) A bright comet will be visible during next month's total solar eclipse. This very unusual coincidence occurs because Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks's return to the inner Solar System places it by chance only 25 degrees away from the Sun during Earth's April 8 total solar eclipse. Currently the comet is just on the edge of visibility to the unaided eye, best visible with binoculars in the early evening sky toward the constellation of the Fish (Pisces). Comet Pons-Brooks, though, is putting on quite a show for deep camera images even now. The featured image is a composite of three very specific colors, showing the comet's ever-changing ion tail in light blue, its outer coma in green, and highlights some red-glowing gas around the coma in a spiral. The spiral is thought to be caused by gas being expelled by the slowly rotating nucleus of the giant iceberg comet. Although it is always difficult to predict the future brightness of comets, Comet Pons-Brook has been particularly prone to outbursts, making it even more difficult to predict how bright it will actually be as the Moon moves in front of the Sun on April 8. Total Eclipse Info: 2024 Total Solar Eclipse from NASA Image Credit & Copyright: Jan Erik Vallestad Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240318.html This video was auto generated using data from NASA Open API. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0jhF27iAP0

Wikipedia Picture of the Day - November 29th, 2020 - Billy Strayhorn (Narrated by Emma) Billy Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967) was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger, best remembered for his long-time collaboration with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington that lasted nearly three decades. Though classical music was Strayhorn's first love, his ambition to become a classical composer went unrealized because of the harsh reality of a black man trying to make his way in the world of classical music, which at that time was almost completely white. He was introduced to the music of pianists like Art Tatum and Teddy Wilson at age 19, and the artistic influence of these musicians guided him into the realm of jazz, where he remained for the rest of his life. This photograph of Strayhorn was taken by William P. Gottlieb in the 1940s. Photograph credit: William P. Gottlieb; restored by Adam Cuerden Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2020-11-29 This video was auto generated using data and media from Wikipedia. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6J094-ZNjE