Superorganism

Contest: Who has the best student section? Nominate your school

Edit NJ dot com 09 Sep 2016

Without fail, one of the best things HS football is the throng of cheering students pulling for their classmates. The student section. They're loud. They can get wild. Sometimes, they're superorgan... Without fail, one of the best things HS football is the throng of cheering students pulling for their classmates. The student section. They're loud. They can get wild ... The costumes can be elaborate ... So we want to know - which N.J ... ....

Get inside the collective mind of a genius superorganism

Edit New Scientist 08 Sep 2016

The amazing bridges and scaffolds that ants build using their own bodies can teach us a thing or two about robotics, engineering and cooperation ... ....

Hot Off the Presses

Edit The Scientist 01 Jul 2016

Serendipity. An Ecologist’s Quest to Understand Nature. James A. Estes. University of California Press, May 2016 ... His message in Serendipity is clear ... Complexity ... William C ... “Also, I’m worried that, since people cause trouble, more people will inevitably cause more trouble.” The Human Superorganism ... In The Human Superorganism, Dietert expresses the view that well-meaning medical science has gotten it wrong for decades....

'Jungle Jess' to visit Aberdeen for National Insect Week (The University of Aberdeen)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Jun 2016

(Source. The University of Aberdeen). Zoologist and Cbeebies presenter Jess French ... There many activities taking place on Saturday, there will be Empathy Room where Daksha Madhu will invite visitors to explore the world of honeybees through sound, smell, and meditation and Superorganism Society interactive activity, where Drs Ewan Campbell and Jenni Stockan will show you what happens inside a real-life bee hive ... Jess French said ... Tel....

Weak bees make strong colonies (Agroscope)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Jun 2016

(Source. Agroscope). There is a general consensus that the parasitic mite Varroa destructor is the greatest biological threat to the health of Western honey bees, globally. This parasite endangers honey bee survival, which may in turn negatively impact pollination services crucial to food security and to the maintenance of biodiversity ... mellifera and die faster ... Article citation ... Social apoptosis in honey bee superorganisms. Sci. Rep ... Dr ... Dr....

Mother Earth Is Calling Us Back

Edit Kashmir Observer 26 Apr 2016

The third stage features the voices of indigenous people whose traditions have long honored Earth as our living mother, of scientists who speak of Earth as a living superorganism that self-organizes to maintain the environmental conditions essential to life, and of religious leaders, such as Pope Francis, who opened his “Care of the Earth” ......

Hacking Gut Bacteria Could Be The Future Of Medicine

Edit Huffington Post 11 Apr 2016

We know that the balance of good and bad bacteria in the gut can keep us healthy -- or can contribute to disease ... Beyond Probiotics ... ... . Here's how it works. Lu and Dr ... Rodney Dietert, an immunotoxicologist at Cornell University who is not involved with Synlogic and author of The Human Superorganism, said in an email. "This is a truly exciting development on a path toward medicines that work with the human superorganism."....

Happiness to mindfulness, via wellbeing: how publishing trends grow

Edit The Guardian 14 Mar 2016

From cod to colouring, fashions come and go in books. What do they tell us about our culture, and can we predict what’s next?. @carmitstead ... And here’s why ... And so it goes ... Twitter ... Related ... Science writer Jon Turney’s I, Superorganism is just out in paperback, and in August Bodley Head will kick off the new publishing season with I Contain Multitudes by the Atlantic journalist and National Geographic Society blogger Ed Jong ... ....

Green worms create a superorganism that becomes a giant seaweed

Edit New Scientist 24 Feb 2016

These flatworms live off energy provided by the green algae they store in their tissues – allowing them to spend their lives sunbathing on sandy beaches ... ....

Plight of the world's rainforests revealed in new science program

Edit The Examiner 23 Feb 2016

Tropical rainforests are more than collections of colorful foliage and trees. They are living ecological laboratories that are vital to the planet but nonetheless endangered ... Rainforests” ... The insects act as minute farmers, growing algae in their nest, aerating the soil in an area roughly the size of a football field and working as one to form what researcher Brian Fisher calls a “superorganism.” ... Meg Lowman concurs ... “3D ... ....

Is it okay for vegetarians to eat jellyfish?

Edit The Guardian 18 Jan 2016

Vegetarianism may seem straightforward, but when you get down to the scientific details, it becomes less clear. With advancements in food technology, it’s likely to get even more confusing. Would you eat a jellyfish? The most likely answer would be “no; they look disgusting ... Twitter ... Species like the aforementioned bees form large colonies, and many consider these “superorganisms” the true manifestations of insect intelligence ... Twitter ... ....

A Self Organizing Superorganism Threat?

Edit Huffington Post 17 Dec 2015

In fact, it was elimination of terrorists that was the objective ... To understand such terrorist organizations the model of a superorganism may be useful. Note that being a superorganism does not impart fantastical powers or assume the entity to be omnipotent ... The cells in lower stem sacrifice themselves ... The evolution of ISIS suggests that we need to examine a newer model including self-organization and the role of superorganisms ... ....

The Future of European Civilization: Lessons for America (The Heritage Foundation)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Dec 2015

(Source. The Heritage Foundation). December 8, 2015 . Lecture on Europe. By Roger Scruton. America has much to learn from Europe's current condition. In Europe, the decline in religious faith has led to a universal weakening of society and a loss of confidence in the value of its civilization. And the effects of this have been grave ... Each historical superorganism, he argued, displays its distinctive and defining spirit through its culture ... K....