Swarm in Here... or Is It Just Me?

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2011

⏱️ 53 minutes

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An ant … can’t … move a rubber tree plant… but the colony can. As a group, ants are an efficient, organized, can-do bunch. And a model for humans trying to manage complex systems. Find out about the eerie collective intelligence of animals, and how an MIT researcher is hoping to put humans to work collaboratively to solve problems like climate change. Also … hear how research into flocking behavior helps Hollywood film a herd of stampeding dinosaurs. Guests: Steve Strogatz - Applied mathematician at Cornell University and author of Sync: How Order Emerges From Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life Craig Reynolds - Senior researcher for Sony Computer Entertainment Thomas Malone - Director of the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT Iain Couzin - Biologist at Princeton University Descripción en español Originally aired June 21, 2010 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.4	The world is filled with many questions,
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1:08.8	Picture yourself in Southeast Asia.
1:14.6	Imagine mangrove trees along river banks for miles.
1:19.2	Standing at the bank of a tidal river in Malaysia, and you may see a swarm of insects that is, well...
1:26.0	It's one of the most hypnotic spectacles in nature.
1:29.0	But to see it, you'll have to wait for dusk.
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