Mob mentality
Is there a wisdom in crowds, or are we all heading over the cliff like lemmings?\n\nImage: S\xe9rgio Valle Duarte via Wikicommons\n\nThings mentioned in this podcast:\n- The Great Battle of Fire and Light, Wait But Why https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/fire-light.html\n- \u2018Sourdough\u2019, xkcd https://m.xkcd.com/2296/\n- Mass panics of 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/29/panic-at-los-angeles-airport-lax-after-noise-mistaken-for-gunfire \n- Measuring the collective unconscious http://people.tamu.edu/~stevesmith/SmithMemory/Rosen_et_al_1991.pdf \n\nFind more Cognitive Engineering episodes here https://link.chtbl.com/SQeIgc44