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| Part of Series | Radio Lab |
| Length | 58:59 |
| Licensor | WNYC |
| Producer(s) | Jad Abumrad |
| Formats | Documentary, Interview, Limited Series |
| Topics | Historical, News, Science |
| Produced | 2005 |
| Added to PRX | October 7, 2005 |
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A bottom-up tour of a leaderless world.
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/season/radiolab.html
Host/Producer Jad Abumrad, Co-Host Robert Krulwich, Producer Ellen Horne, Production Executive's Dean Capello and Mikel Ellcessor
English
What happens when there is no leader? Starlings, bees, and ants manage just fine. In fact, they form staggeringly complicated societies, all without a Toscanini to conduct them into harmony. How? That?s our question this hour. We gaze down at the bottom-up logic of cities, Google, even our very own brains. Featured: author Steven Johnson, fire-flyologists John and Elizabeth Buck, biologist E.O. Wilson, Ant expert Debra Gordon, mathematician Steve Strogatz, economist James Surowiecki, and neurologists Oliver Sacks and Christof Koch.