From a suburban sidewalk in southern California, Jad and Robert witness the carnage of a gruesome turf war. Though the tiny warriors doing battle clock in at just a fraction of an inch, they have evolved a surprising, successful, and rather unsettling strategy of ironclad loyalty, absolute intolerance, and brutal violence.
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Ants: ‘A Global Safari With A Cast Of Trillions’ : NPR
Entomologist Mark Moffett loves ants. He’s devoted his career to studying the tiny insects: how they move, what they eat, when they attack their prey. Moffett’s book, Adventures Among Ants, details his explorations around the world, tracking many a species through jungle forests and remote mountain passes.
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/22/138576199/ants-a-global-safari-with-a-cast-of-trillions
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Emergence
What happens when there is no leader? Starlings, bees, and ants manage just fine. In fact, they form staggeringly complicated societies—all without a Toscanini to conduct them into harmony. This hour of Radiolab, we ask how this happens.
We gaze down at the bottom-up logic of cities, Google, and even our very own brains with fire-flyologists, ant experts, neurologists, a mathematician, and an economist.
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Argentine Invasion — From a suburban sidewalk in southern California, Jad and Robert witness the carnage of a gruesome turf war. Though the tiny warriors doing battle clock in at just a fraction of an inch, they have evolved a surprising, successful, and rather unsettling strategy of ironclad loyalty, absolute intolerance, and brutal violence.
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