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Order From Disorder - Science News

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Collective motion emerges spontaneously in wiggling protein strands...
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Smart swarms of bacteria inspire robotics: Adaptable decision-making found in bacteria communities

Smart swarms of bacteria inspire robotics: Adaptable decision-making found in bacteria communities | Science News | Scoop.it
Scientists have now discovered how bacteria collectively gather information to learn about their environment and find an optimal path to growth.

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The more collective feeling in a society, the more its members are likely to offer bribes: study

The more collective feeling in a society, the more its members are likely to offer bribes: study | Science News | Scoop.it

Aggarwal and Mazar discovered that people in more collectivist cultures – in which individuals see themselves as interdependent and as part of a larger society – are more likely to offer bribes than people from more individualistic cultures. Their work suggests that people in collectivist societies may feel less individually responsible for their actions, and therefore less guilty about offering a bribe.

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Do we no longer care about the collective good?

Do we no longer care about the collective good? | Science News | Scoop.it
The Transformation of Solidarity, a book co-edited by University of Queensland sociologist Dr Mara Yerkes, tackles the subject of globalisation of national economies and societies where we put a high value on individual rights and self-expression.
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Swarm Intelligence: Is the Group Really Smarter? « People-triggers

Swarm Intelligence: Is the Group Really Smarter? « People-triggers | Science News | Scoop.it
By observing these systems in nature, scientists have theorized that such systems harness a sort of leaderless, collective intelligence. By leveraging these kinds of consensus-based systems, groups of independently-acting ...

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