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Together, the 100 most valuable brands in the world are worth more than $5 trillion.

Brands play an important role in driving shareholder value, yet pinpointing how much a brand is worth can be challenging. Investments in brand could pay dividends for many decades, but because those financial benefits are fairly open to interpretation, most financial regulators don’t usually accept brand assets on balance sheets.

To look at it another way, Apple is missing one of its most valuable assets on its financial reporting—a brand worth $516.6 billion.

This visualization ranks the top 100 brands by brand value, based on the annual global ranking from Brand Finance.

Right in the center of the island nation of Madagascar there’s a strange, almost perfectly circular geological structure. It covers a bigger area than the city of Paris — and at first glance, it looks completely empty. But right in the center of that structure, there’s a single, isolated village: a few dozen houses, some fields of crops, and dirt roads stretching out in every direction.

When we first saw this village on Google Earth, its extreme remoteness fascinated us. Was the village full of people? How did they wind up there?

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Gallery of his works (Warning: Depictions of nudity)

These wasps are not single-celled organisms though, and their brains alone contain 4600 neurons. For reference, the brain of a honeybee contains ~1 million neurons. Despite their extremely small heads (again, look at that head next to the SINGLE CELLED amoeba) the wasps can still fly, seek out mates, and find thrip eggs to parasitize. So…what? How?

Reminds me of the web back in the 90’s, before Google.

A group of horse-riding warriors kept some gruesome battle trophies.

A Relay attack is a form of keyless car theft. Criminals bypass keyless entry security by extending the signal of the car key inside the house.

I didn't know, so I looked it up. Now I know. Thought you might like to know too, if you don't already. 🙂

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(official source for the 25.000)

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The incident happened in Limpopo, a province in the north-east of South Africa. The truck was transporting oranges from the farm to the market. It broke down on the way.

https://t.me/c/1702333698/1275

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An impressive feature is their bright red colored eyes with vertical slits. They do not have a true eyelid, but rather a nictitating membrane that allows light to enter the eye so that they will awaken when predators are approaching.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalychnis_callidryas#Description

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• https://piped.video/watch?v=0srs5jZ1qdg
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0srs5jZ1qdg

WARNING - LOUD!

Gav plops down the high speed camera next to a rocket engine with 45,000lbs of thrust and the results are epic. Big thanks to Firefly for allowing us to film at their facility and BBC Click for letting us use their behind the scenes footage from the day.

Filmed at 2000fps

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_Aerospace#Reaver
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_diamond

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/611399

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Just learned about these.

Custom pins by them.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4850144

Two comments in particular stand out:

This is going to be a big turning point in the history and character of this country, I think. posted by Doug at 8:51 AM on September 11, 2001 [207 favorites +] [!]

my greatest fear is how our government is going to respond. more erosion of freedom in the name of security. mark my words. posted by rebeccablood at 12:10 PM on September 11, 2001 [311 favorites +] [!]