Channel: Be Smart

Category: Education

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Description: Check out MEGAWOW from @PBS KIDS ►► youtu.be/meU4f31gqYI We’re on PATREON! Join the community patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ How do zebras get their stripes? How do leopards get their spots? And how do giraffes get their giraffe-shaped thingies, whatever they are called? Would you believe the answer is… math? This is the story of a WWII wartime codebreaker and his quest to decode nature’s most beautiful patterns. Alan Turing uncovered a simple code that explains everything from stripes to spots and all the patterns in between… he was just too far ahead of his time. Only recently have biologists found evidence that his pattern-forming system Alan Turing’s notes used by permission of King’s College, Cambridge (The Turing Papers collection) Visit Dr. Natasha Ellison’s Turing Pattern Project to learn more: turing-pattern-project.group.shef.ac.uk Turing pattern simulations created using Jason Webb’s Reaction-Diffusion Playground: jasonwebb.github.io/reaction-diffusion-playground References: sites.google.com/view/turing-pattern-references/home SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss a video! ►► bit.ly/iotbs_sub ----------- Special thanks to our Brain Trust Patrons: Joseph Spencer Barbora Bei Ken Board Clinger-Hamilton Family Attila Pix Burt Humburg DeliciousKashmiri Brian Chang Roy Lasris Javier Soto dani bowman David Johnston Salih Arslan Baerbel Winkler Robert Young Amy Sowada Eric Meer Dustin Marcus Tuepker Karen Haskell AlecZero Join us on Patreon! patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart Twitter twitter.com/DrJoeHanson twitter.com/okaytobesmart Instagram instagram.com/DrJoeHanson instagram.com/okaytobesmart Merch store.dftba.com/collections/its-okay-to-be-smart Facebook facebook.com/itsokaytobesmartpbs