Follow your favourite podcasts, listen offline and in the car with CarPlay and Android Auto, and always pick up where you left off. Free to try.
PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateOKAY ↓ More info and sources below ↓
You are a beautiful and curious snowflake.
SUBSCRIBE, it's FREE! http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub
Snowflakes are infinitely beautiful, but are they infinitely unique? Here's all the science behind Earth's favorite cold crystal.
More reading:
Wilson Bentley, The Snowflake Man of Vermont http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/02/14/the-snowflake-man-of-vermont/
Kenneth Libbrecht's SnowCrystals website (the definitive snow science page on the internet): http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/
The true shape of snowflakes: http://news.sciencemag.org/environment/2013/04/scienceshot-true-shape-snowflakes?rss=1
Timeline of snowflake research: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_snowflake_research
Interactive water crystal packing (Firefox is best) http://www.edinformatics.com/interactive_molecules/ice.htm
The case of two identical snowflakes: http://www.livescience.com/1239-scientist-snowflakes-alike.html
Joe Hanson - Host and writer Joe Nicolosi - Director Amanda Fox - Producer, Spotzen IncKate Eads - Associate Producer Katie Graham - Director of Photography Andrew Matthews - Editor and motion graphics
Produced for PBS Digital Studios ----------- Join us on Patreon! https://patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart
