{"id":166589,"date":"2010-01-11T12:30:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T17:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2010-01-11T12:30:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T17:30:59","slug":"blind-ants-traffic-jams-and-the-pixies-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/166589","title":{"rendered":"Blind Ants, Traffic Jams, and the Pixies | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a talk by <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/webscript.princeton.edu\/~icouzin\/website\/\">Ian Couzin,<\/a> a scientist who does fascinating studies on crowds and their wisdom. <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/13\/science\/13traff.html\">I wrote about Ian a couple years in the <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/a> It&#8217;s funny now to actually see him in the virtual flesh. And to hear him talk about how much he loves the Pixies.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/87cpE4KPHBlFE30yeIrZCW0JWyw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/87cpE4KPHBlFE30yeIrZCW0JWyw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/87cpE4KPHBlFE30yeIrZCW0JWyw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/87cpE4KPHBlFE30yeIrZCW0JWyw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Loom\/~4\/rrtAZex_QKc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/d7gyAS761So\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a talk by Ian Couzin, a scientist who does fascinating studies on crowds and their wisdom. I wrote about Ian a couple years in the New York Times. It&#8217;s funny now to actually see him in the virtual flesh. And to hear him talk about how much he loves the Pixies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}