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Why Everything Is In Sync

In this 2004 TED talk, "mathematician Steven Strogatz shows how flocks of creatures (like birds, fireflies and fish) manage to synchronizee and act as a unit -- when no one's giving orders. The powerful tendency extends into the realm of objects, too...

In this 2004 TED talk, “mathematician Steven Strogatz shows how flocks of creatures (like birds, fireflies and fish) manage to synchronizee and act as a unit — when no one’s giving orders. The powerful tendency extends into the realm of objects, too.” See also: his piece on synchrony at Edge.