SciShow: The Link Between Zebra Stripes and Sand Dunes | Natural Patterns

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Content of the Lesson: Stripes! Hexagons! They're everywhere! These patterns in nature might seem like aesthetic coincidences, but they are actually the result of physical process that show up again and again, even in otherwise unrelated phenomena. Hosted by: Stefan Chin 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, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, James Knight, Sam Buck, 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://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ad.1375 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2014.0218 https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.70.289 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959437X12001438 https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.74.011914 https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/369/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/1211.6762.pdf https://www.ds.mpg.de/2699162/comb_patterns_in_geology http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.135.877&rep=rep1&type=pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3663108/ https://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/lcs/previous/LCS2003/83.pdf https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ca05b88a-0de3-4b0e-9c82-bde6776ad097/download_file?file_format=pdf&safe_filename=212.pdf&type_of_work=Journal+article https://science.sciencemag.org/content/338/6113/1476 https://www.quantamagazine.org/biologists-home-in-on-turing-patterns-20130325/ http://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC4486416&blobtype=pdf https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/X7Ju8FXQKEEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA1 https://books.google.com/books?id=zQhpDwAAQBAJ&pg=SA8-PA48&lpg=SA8-PA48&dq=turing+patterns+in+sand&source=bl&ots=4LfindQNcN&sig=ACfU3U1kZg1EcdryskC-oskzoGgtC64Aqg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjE5sKVuP3pAhXZHDQIHZvyCF44ChDoATAHegQIChAB#v=onepage&q=turing%20patterns%20in%20sand&f=false https://www.nps.gov/grsa/learn/nature/dune-types.htm https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/deserts/dunes/ https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/rover-reveals-puzzling-sand-dunes-mars https://www.quantamagazine.org/biologists-home-in-on-turing-patterns-20130325/ Image Sources: https://www.videoblocks.com/video/desert-horizon-panning-to-right-r_sev3ihgj0savok1 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sunset-at-giants-causeway-gm526257975-52659830 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/devils-tower-wyoming-usa-gm531693509-55685528 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dried_mud_creeks_on_the_shores_of_the_Wash_-_geograph.org.uk_-_10669.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carmel_Formation_mudcracks_Jurassic.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/zebras-gm511949893-46746926 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/bengal-tiger-isolated-on-white-background-gm1135303169-301974719 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/two-fresh-water-angel-fish-pterophyllum-scalare-close-up-gm1181621284-331482876 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/it-goes-the-striped-hyena-walks-along-the-sand-against-the-background-of-the-gm1140378217-305146159 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/zebra-running-and-jumping-gm483230252-70528957 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alan_Turing_az_1930-as_%C3%A9vekben.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/desert-sand-dunes-with-shadows-gm118456367-10970692 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/zebra-print-gm1169779807-323503350 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/hot-planet-gm681899980-124989653 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dark-cold-stone-background-and-texture-gm1159228859-316914977 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/tiles-a-white-marble-wall-with-hexagon-tiles-for-texture-and-background-gm1198984100-342853652 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/isolated-black-african-hand-counting-on-fingers-gm1137900816-303580227 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/zebras-in-tarangire-national-park-tanzania-gm467771157-33914148 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/angelfish-gm646176148-117162195 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/giraffe-family-gm495752928-78164105 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/giants-causeway-gm92521397-1154949 https://bit.ly/3iJLeey https://bit.ly/3gEIL3c https://bit.ly/3e6NZTt https://bit.ly/31SLly7 https://bit.ly/2Dlp0PF


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