1/ One of the coolest things I learned about in computational social science?
Ant mills.
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2/ "... phenomenon in which a group of army ants, which are blind, are separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. The ants will eventually die of exhaustion." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill
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If you were nearby them, you could interrupt it and BREAK THAT LOOP!
6:16 PM - 19 Sep 2019
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