pbsdigitalstudios: Periodical cicadas only emerge every 13 or 17 years! Learn about the advantages of their prime number life cycle on It’s Okay to Be Smart.  Have you seen this week’s video yet? I tell the story of how some species of cicadas have mastered mathematics by only emerging every 13 or 17 years. They use prime numbers as an evolutionary advantage! It’s nuts!It’s cicada be smart!
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pbsdigitalstudios: Periodical cicadas only emerge every 13 or 17 years! Learn about the advantages of their prime number life cycle on It’s Okay to Be Smart.  Have you seen this week’s video yet? I tell the story of how some species of cicadas have mastered mathematics by only emerging every 13 or 17 years. They use prime numbers as an evolutionary advantage! It’s nuts!It’s cicada be smart!
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pbsdigitalstudios: Periodical cicadas only emerge every 13 or 17 years! Learn about the advantages of their prime number life cycle on It’s Okay to Be Smart.  Have you seen this week’s video yet? I tell the story of how some species of cicadas have mastered mathematics by only emerging every 13 or 17 years. They use prime numbers as an evolutionary advantage! It’s nuts!It’s cicada be smart!
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pbsdigitalstudios: Periodical cicadas only emerge every 13 or 17 years! Learn about the advantages of their prime number life cycle on It’s Okay to Be Smart.  Have you seen this week’s video yet? I tell the story of how some species of cicadas have mastered mathematics by only emerging every 13 or 17 years. They use prime numbers as an evolutionary advantage! It’s nuts!It’s cicada be smart!
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pbsdigitalstudios:

Periodical cicadas only emerge every 13 or 17 years! Learn about the advantages of their prime number life cycle on It’s Okay to Be Smart. 

Have you seen this week’s video yet? I tell the story of how some species of cicadas have mastered mathematics by only emerging every 13 or 17 years. They use prime numbers as an evolutionary advantage! It’s nuts!

It’s cicada be smart!

NEW VIDEO!

Why Are Cicadas So Good At Math?

Some species of cicada only emerge every 13 or 17 years, living almost all their lives underground and only singing their love songs for a few short weeks. Why prime number life cycles?

Are cicadas nature’s tiniest mathematicians? Discover the biology behind this evolutionary arithme-trick in this week’s vid!

(Be sure to watch until the end for some special Vidcon and t-shirt related announcements!!!)

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If you haven’t yet experienced this tribute to the New Horizons #PlutoFlyBy courtesy of npr via skunkbear, don’t miss it. Excerpted from the 1971 celebration of the Mariner 9 mission to Mars at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, world renown science fiction author Ray Bradbury reads from an original poem entitled ‘If Only We Had Taller Been’, which compliments this week of planetary exploration quite well. 

See his original reading HERE, as Joe Hanson of jtotheizzoe shared this back in August and will be forever relevant, even after we’ve become spacefaring citizens and left our solar system altogether. 

#ThanksNASA

I’m not crying, those are just happy science feels…

This is just beautiful. Bradbury’s “If Only We Had Taller Been” has long been my favorite poem, and to see it reimagined like this… just wow 🚀🌕😢

Woo-hoo! VidCon is almost here! I’m moderating a panel about how to not screw things up when making educational videos, featuring Henry Reich (Minutephysics, MinuteEarth), Derek Muller (Veritasium), Dianna Cowern (The Physics Girl), and Matthew Santoro. I am also wrangling Emily’s thebrainscoop Q&A, which is going to be awesome, so you should all come hang out with us!Click here for my full VidCon schedule, or read it off that picture I guess? See you in Anaheim!
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Woo-hoo! VidCon is almost here!

I’m moderating a panel about how to not screw things up when making educational videos, featuring Henry Reich (Minutephysics, MinuteEarth), Derek Muller (Veritasium), Dianna Cowern (The Physics Girl), and Matthew Santoro. I am also wrangling Emily’s thebrainscoop Q&A, which is going to be awesome, so you should all come hang out with us!

Click here for my full VidCon schedule, or read it off that picture I guess? See you in Anaheim!