pesky birds interrupting otherwise pleasant days on the moors

November 5, 2011 | Posted in notes | Tagged with: | 3 Comments ↓

Had no idea that the phenomenon shown in the videos below existed…

…much less that it went by the lovely name “murmuration.”

Not a very high quality video, obviously, the second one, but the expression on the girl’s face at the end is a wondrous natural phenomenon in its own right.

h/t to and more at The Daily Dish

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  1. A little more on the “criticality” referenced in the rticle.

    Crucially, however, the paper demonstrated that the complexity observed emerged in a robust manner that did not depend on finely tuned details of the system: variable parameters in the model could be changed widely without affecting the emergence of critical behaviour (hence, self-organized criticality). Thus, the key result of BTW’s paper was its discovery of a mechanism by which the emergence of complexity from simple local interactions could be spontaneous — and therefore plausible as a source of natural complexity
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  2. So, in light of the new Sherlock Holmes sequel introduction of Moriarty, Kim Newman has put together an anthology of stories,
    serving as a devils advocate for the good professor, and his side kick Sebastian Moran, in the ‘House of ‘Urbanvilles,

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