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Category: Complex Systems
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Stigmergy – a strategy to unlock mass collaboration?
TL;DR: The article explores how the concept of stigmergy—a self-organizing principle observed in ants—can be applied to enable large-scale human collaboration. By leaving visible traces of work and inviting others to build upon them, a 25-person group project was successfully completed without centralized control. This decentralized, trace-based approach led to a more creative and inclusive…
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Combating New World Screwworm: Innovative Sterile Insect Technique Explained
Increase the number of flies to decrease the number of screwworms?? I’ve been reading an unhealthy amount into the plague that is the New World Screwworm (NWS) after I saw articles introducing the strategy to stop the spread of this live-flesh eating larva, which devastates livestock, is to air drop billions upon billions of these…