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An ant \u2026 can\u2019t \u2026 move a rubber tree plant\u2026 but the colony can. As a group, ants are an efficient, organized, can-do bunch. And a model for humans trying to manage complex systems.\nFind out about the eerie collective intelligence of animals, and how an MIT researcher is hoping to put humans to work collaboratively to solve problems like climate change.\nAlso \u2026 hear how research into flocking behavior helps Hollywood film a herd of stampeding dinosaurs.\nGuests:\n\n\nSteve Strogatz - Applied mathematician at Cornell University and author of Sync: How Order Emerges From Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life\n\n\n\nCraig Reynolds - Senior researcher for Sony Computer Entertainment\n\n\nThomas Malone - Director of the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT\n\n\nIain Couzin - Biologist at Princeton University\n\nDescripci\xf3n en espa\xf1ol\nOriginally aired June 21, 2010\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices