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Friday math movie: How things in nature tend to sync up

By Murray Bourne, 23 Nov 2012

Mathematician Steven Strogatz shows how flocks of creatures (like birds, fireflies and fish) manage to synchronize and act as a unit - when no one's giving orders.

Strogatz writes a column in The New York Times, Me, Myself and Math.

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