Bit Wonder
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Decode the Bee Waggle Dance 🎧 How does a honeybee tell her sisters where the flowers are? She dances a map: the waggle run's angle from straight up is the flowers' angle from the sun, and about one second of waggle means about one kilometre. One forager lands on the dark comb and dances a buzzing figure-eight, one circuit to every bar of the music. Her sisters follow it by touch, fly 1 km out across the meadow and find the flowers. Then the sun moves, and the dancers turn their map to keep up, tracking a sun they can't see from inside the hive. Karl von Frisch decoded this dance and shared the 1973 Nobel Prize for it. #waggledance #biology #pixelart #bitwonder
Bit Wonder874,500 views • 25 days ago
One Melody, Five World Scales 🎧 What do world music scales look like on a 12-note circle? Five scales draw five shapes, and one melody changes color in every one. Maqam Hijaz, Dorian, the Chinese gong mode, the Japanese In scale and Sundanese degung each draw their notes as a polygon; then one tune moves through all five and only the corners that change get new notes. All five share just two notes, C and G. Inspired by @StevenSutipen on YouTube. Sources: MaqamWorld, Jins Hijaz; Wikipedia, Phrygian dominant scale; Wikipedia, In scale; Wikipedia, Degung #musicscales #music #pixelart #bitwonder
Bit Wonder564,800 views • 19 days ago
Bach's Crab Canon Plays Backwards 🎧 What is Bach's crab canon? One line of music, 18 bars long, played forwards and backwards at the same time. A gold crab reads the page left to right while a blue crab reads the same notes right to left. They meet in the exact middle after bar 9, and each ends on the note where the other began. Bach wrote it in 1747 on a theme from Frederick the Great. #crabcanon #music #pixelart #bitwonder
Bit Wonder53,700 views • 28 days ago
Marble Run Plays Game Music 🎧 What does famous game music sound like on a marble run? Every note is a bounce, and by the end eight marbles play at double speed. Korobeiniki rings down xylophone keys, bumpers and a glass tube, The Blue Danube waltzes through a loop-the-loop and a spinning wheel, and the Sugar Plum Fairy flips gravity. Then Korobeiniki comes back twice as fast, eight marbles hit the jackpot together, and the game turns out to be an arcade cabinet. #marblerun #music #pixelart #bitwonder
Bit Wonder36,200 views • 28 days ago
Jack-o'-Lantern Rots in 10 Days 🎧 How long does a carved pumpkin last? Usually 5 to 10 days, while an uncut one can keep for 8 to 12 weeks. Mold spores land on the wet, sugary cut flesh and spread from the cut edges, Penicillium blue-green and Cladosporium olive, while the walls dry and the face caves in. Ten days later, it collapses onto its own candle. Sources: NPR 2011, "How Long Does A Pumpkin Last?" Utah State University Extension 2020, "Preserve your Jack-O-Lanterns" SDSU Extension, "Pumpkin Carving Preservation" PBS NewsHour 2022, "The science of keeping your jack-o'-lanterns mold free this Halloween" Note: We use AI agents such as Codex and Claude Code to assist with production. All videos are based on human ideas, created under human direction, and reviewed for accuracy. AI and human reviewers can miss mistakes. Please let us know in the comments if you spot any inaccuracies. #jackolantern #biology #pixelart #creativecoding #bitwonder
Bit Wonder11,200 views • 12 days ago
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