Podcast HackCollective Behaviors and Living as a GroupBy The Joy of Why, Steven Strogatz , Iain Couzin
In a Nutshell
In this March 2024 episode of The Joy of Why podcast, co-host Steven Strogatz talks to scientist Iain Couzin about the collective behaviors of animals.
Favorite Quote
Even though the system properties – whether you're a cell or whether you're a bird – are very different, when you look at the collective action … the mathematics that underlie this actually turn out to be very similar.
Iain Couzin
Introduction
Few things are as humbling and captivating as watching a murmuration of starlings swoop and swirl in the evening sky.
"Locusts actually don't like being near each other. They are shy, cryptic green grasshoppers that like to be left alone … It's only when they're forced to come together do they transition." [Iain Couzin]
In Quanta Magazine's Joy of Why podcast, mathematician Steven Strogatz and astrophysicist Janna Levin interview leading researchers about the biggest unanswered questions in math and science today.
In this episode from March 2024, Strogatz talks to evolutionary ecologist and award-winning researcher Iain Couzin about how and why animals exhibit collective behaviors.
Here are the 3 key insights from this Hack
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