Swarm Intelligence

“How do the simple actions of individuals add up to the complex behavior of a group?” asks the Peter Miller in the National Geographic article “Swarm Theory: Ants, bees, and birds teach us how to cope with a complex world.”
The article opens up with an two-spread photograph peppered with a flock of hundreds, maybe thousands, [...]

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It’s Okay to Run Out of Gas Sometimes

I never would have thought my first adventures would have been with my grandma. We used to go on the greatest shopping trips to Bay City and Saginaw. We shopped all day, went to nice restaurants and ate too much, and spent too much money on clothes and accessories; the girl stuff I couldn’t [...]

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