SciShow: Brittle Stars Could Teach Robots To See With Their Skin

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Content of the Lesson: Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try their Algorithm Fundamentals course. The first 200 subscribers get 20% off an annual Premium subscription. Brittle stars are eyeless, brainless animals that spend their time hanging out in dark crevices of coral reefs. But despite all this, it seems that they can still see...using their skin! Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.2590 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01065-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/35090573 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4139915/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221931512X https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/6/4/112/htm https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.171200 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbot.2019.00066/full Images: https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/161209.php https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/58323.php?from=243215 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/220178.php?from=451098 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/158566.php https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ophiocoma_brevipes.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/underwater-landscape-realistic-vector-background-gm1143347756-307021989 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/underwater-creature-a-brittle-star-over-sponge-gm899739582-248268026 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/a-red-sea-star-on-the-ocean-floor-gm182213653-10827634 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/brittle-star-gm989208040-268175136 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/googly-eyes-gm155419186-20183545 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/ophiocten-sericeum-gm528467343-53540272 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/neon-lights-lens-flare-space-light-black-background-gm1136854470-302924897


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