Why do honeybees love hexagons? – Zack Patterson and Andy Peterson
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Zack Patterson and Andy Peterson explore why the hexagon is the perfect
shape for bees, and why circles, triangles, or squares just would not do:
Jennifer Ouellette
July 23, 2014 at 4:22 pm
I think God programmed it into their psyche.
stan gore
July 23, 2014 at 4:28 pm
Honeybees build and live in one of the most mathematically efficient
architectural designs around: the beehive. Zack Patterson and Andy Peterson
delve into the very smart geometry behind the honeybee’s home.
TED-Ed
July 23, 2014 at 4:35 pm
Put it at 0:30 and play it at 0.25 speed
TheCodingProject
July 23, 2014 at 5:20 pm
There is no way on earth that, through evolution alone, bees developed
this. It’s simply instinct programmed by their creator/designer.
Jordan Craig
July 23, 2014 at 5:27 pm
OH MY GOD. What the hell is an ounce? Jeez just put the metric equivalent
there.
LOLGames
July 23, 2014 at 6:04 pm
I think that the structure of the bee hive has to do mostly with the
symmetry of their eyes/vision.
Andrei G.
July 23, 2014 at 6:24 pm
To understand, you have to think like a bee…. who goes to a geometry
class and asks a teacher. Um, why not just think like a geometry teacher?
Shawn Ravenfire
July 23, 2014 at 6:50 pm
Bees can’t do math, because bees don’t go to school.
Dan TheMan
July 23, 2014 at 7:09 pm
But what about higher-edge-count shapes?
Mirko Kemna
July 23, 2014 at 7:18 pm
do you thing its possible that something programmed the bees to make the
honey comb this way? cause we as humans need to use instruments to measure
and make accurate calculation, yet this simple creature instinctively know
how to do these things. maybe they are programmed like like biological
machines to do there task.
ridimwave
July 23, 2014 at 7:44 pm
http://whitneym49.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/seinfeld-bees.jpg
Michael Spencer
July 23, 2014 at 8:00 pm
this explained very little. why exactly is a hexagon more space efficient
than a square or a triangle? both of those shapes also tessellate
perfectly, so there is 100% efficiency for each of those, is there not?
cm15
July 23, 2014 at 8:55 pm
Intriguing, 3-minute, Ted-Ed video about bees and mathematics.
John Fitsioris
July 23, 2014 at 8:58 pm
Smart enough to calculate the perfect shape, but not smart enough to avoid
my rolled up newspaper.
Armadillo
July 23, 2014 at 9:45 pm
ted went full retard on that one
jlebrech
July 23, 2014 at 10:38 pm
Honeybees build and live in one of the most mathematically efficient
architectural designs around: the beehive. Zack Patterson and Andy Peterson
delve into the very smart geometry behind the honeybee’s home.
Rotana Ty
July 23, 2014 at 11:26 pm
The evolution god thought of this. Ain’t evolution smart? I mean evolution
thought of everything.
stan gore
July 23, 2014 at 11:44 pm
This is worst TED-Ed video so far. Honey bees actually create circular
shaped cells, but because of the heat they produce and gravity, circle turn
into hexagons. There was scientific paper that reported these results.
Mohamed Qasem
July 23, 2014 at 11:58 pm
im sorry but i dont believe that bees attended a geometry class.
Gustavo Moreno
July 24, 2014 at 12:50 am
Zack Patterson and Andy Peterson explore why the hexagon is the perfect
shape for bees, and why circles, triangles, or squares just would not do:
Greg Bodnar
July 24, 2014 at 1:46 am
You gotta fly like a butterfly and…. calculate like a bee? :p
Scumbagel
July 24, 2014 at 2:15 am
This is stupid… the honeybees had a meeting?? Did the 3 bears attend???
TooTrue2
July 24, 2014 at 3:09 am
Bees don’t choose nor think as far as we know. This explains how humans
would deal with the issue. For bees, it’s an issue of instinct and natural
selection. The most efficient solution developed over time because it would
be the most successful. That was mentioned at the end, about evolution, but
everything before that was misleading.
MsHojat
July 24, 2014 at 4:03 am
Bees are not the only animals to make tightly-packed hexagons. You see this
in the colonial nests of fish and birds, too.
PlainsPup
July 24, 2014 at 4:18 am