Podcasts about ant colonies

Send us a textTom Carroll is the writer director of “The Stress is Killing Me,” which is now available to rent/own on all North American digital HD internet, cable, and satellite platforms.  He is also the director or “Big Bad Budget,” which aired on PBS stations nationwide, and the writer director of “Who Stole the Tasmanian Devils?” Tom is also the author of several novels, including “The Dogs Who Play Baseball,” “Young and Dumb”, and “Lawrence and the Ant Colony,” and the play “Churchill's Finest Hour.”  

Remember that 1998 film Antz? The one about an ant named Z?The one where the ants had nightmare-inducing human teeth? The one we probably have to blame for the existence of Jerry Seinfeld's Bee Movie?Considering the movie is all about ants, you'd think it'd get SOMETHING right about ants. But Hollywood has once again LIED TO US.Do male ants have any jobs outside the boudoir? Can ants breathe? Do ants have creepy little human teeth?Ann Jones sets out to be pedANTic and find the facts in the fiction.Featuring:Dr Kirsti Abbott, ant lover and head of science at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern TerritoryFurther reading:Social isolation causes mortality by disrupting energy homeostasis in antsProduction:Ann Jones, Presenter / ProducerNat Tencic, ProducerRebecca McLaren, ProducerIsabella Tropiano, additional masteringThis episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the lands of the Wadawarrung, Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung, Taungurung, and Kaurna people.If you want to hear more "What the Duck?" episodes- please like and subscribe here.

1/2: #ANT-FARMiNG: The ant colony that farms and prospers on fungi created out of the eco collapse of 66 million years ago. Ted Schultz, Smithsonian Museum. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com    The coevolution of fungus-ant agriculture. Science, 386(6717), 105-109. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adn7179  2922 American Museum of Natural History

2/2: #ANT-FARMiNG: The ant colony that farms and prospers on fungi created out of the eco collapse of 66 million years ago. Ted Schultz, Smithsonian Museum. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com    The coevolution of fungus-ant agriculture. Science, 386(6717), 105-109. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adn7179  1967 T-Rex

Have you wondered how a simple idea can grow into a community-driven business? In this week's episode, I'm joined by Sarah Calhoun, founder of Red Ants Pants, a company dedicated to workwear for women. Sarah opens up about her entrepreneurial journey, from identifying a gap in the market to creating a brand that empowers women in labor-intensive fields. She shares the story behind the company's unique name and the "Red Ant Challenge," which fosters a strong connection among her customers. The discussion emphasizes how storytelling and community-building are essential for business growth and personal connections.Learn more about Sarah:Sarah Calhoun is a businesswoman and social entrepreneur living in White Sulphur Springs, Montana, United States. She is the founder of the Red Ants Pants clothing brand, which creates rugged clothing designed for women who perform blue-collar and outdoor work. From her business proceeds, she has also created a charitable foundation, and founded an annual outdoor music festival, both of which use the Red Ants Pants trademark.Sarah's Links:Red Ants Pants: https://www.facebook.com/redantspants/https://www.instagram.com/redantspants/Foundation: https://www.facebook.com/redantspantsfoundation/https://www.instagram.com/redantspantsfoundationRed Ants Pants Music Festival: https://www.facebook.com/redantspantsmusicfestival/https://www.instagram.com/redantspantsmusicfestival/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/RedAntsPantsMusicFes/videosSpotify playlists https://open.spotify.com/user/dh1d95bc0et0glukavcxf3khdConnect with Veronica on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vromney/If you're serious about advancing your career in marketing and you're looking for some personal insights into how then I invite you to schedule a free Pathway to Promotion call with me: https://pathwaycall.com/If you found value in today's episode, I would appreciate it if you could leave a rating and review.

In this episode of Moment of Zen, Balaji Srinivasan sits down with Erik Torenberg to discuss the massive vibe shift in Silicon Valley a week after Trump's near-assassination, tech's emerging role as a counter-elite force, why Biden is president NPC, January 6, and the role of the media.

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The most complex organizations in the living world beside those of humans are the colonies of ants. Mark Moffett will argue that points of comparison between sharply different organisms like ants and humans are exceptionally valuable to science, and indeed that modern humans are in many ways much more like certain ants than we are to our nearest relatives, the chimpanzees. He considers such issues as the role of individuality and group identity in ant societies; the advantages to ants of flat organizations without leaders or hierarchies; and what we can learn from ants with respect to direct and indirect communication, self-organization, job specialization, labor coordination, and global domination. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 39272]

The most complex organizations in the living world beside those of humans are the colonies of ants. Mark Moffett will argue that points of comparison between sharply different organisms like ants and humans are exceptionally valuable to science, and indeed that modern humans are in many ways much more like certain ants than we are to our nearest relatives, the chimpanzees. He considers such issues as the role of individuality and group identity in ant societies; the advantages to ants of flat organizations without leaders or hierarchies; and what we can learn from ants with respect to direct and indirect communication, self-organization, job specialization, labor coordination, and global domination. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 39272]

The most complex organizations in the living world beside those of humans are the colonies of ants. Mark Moffett will argue that points of comparison between sharply different organisms like ants and humans are exceptionally valuable to science, and indeed that modern humans are in many ways much more like certain ants than we are to our nearest relatives, the chimpanzees. He considers such issues as the role of individuality and group identity in ant societies; the advantages to ants of flat organizations without leaders or hierarchies; and what we can learn from ants with respect to direct and indirect communication, self-organization, job specialization, labor coordination, and global domination. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 39272]

The most complex organizations in the living world beside those of humans are the colonies of ants. Mark Moffett will argue that points of comparison between sharply different organisms like ants and humans are exceptionally valuable to science, and indeed that modern humans are in many ways much more like certain ants than we are to our nearest relatives, the chimpanzees. He considers such issues as the role of individuality and group identity in ant societies; the advantages to ants of flat organizations without leaders or hierarchies; and what we can learn from ants with respect to direct and indirect communication, self-organization, job specialization, labor coordination, and global domination. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 39272]

The most complex organizations in the living world beside those of humans are the colonies of ants. Mark Moffett will argue that points of comparison between sharply different organisms like ants and humans are exceptionally valuable to science, and indeed that modern humans are in many ways much more like certain ants than we are to our nearest relatives, the chimpanzees. He considers such issues as the role of individuality and group identity in ant societies; the advantages to ants of flat organizations without leaders or hierarchies; and what we can learn from ants with respect to direct and indirect communication, self-organization, job specialization, labor coordination, and global domination. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 39272]

The most complex organizations in the living world beside those of humans are the colonies of ants. Mark Moffett will argue that points of comparison between sharply different organisms like ants and humans are exceptionally valuable to science, and indeed that modern humans are in many ways much more like certain ants than we are to our nearest relatives, the chimpanzees. He considers such issues as the role of individuality and group identity in ant societies; the advantages to ants of flat organizations without leaders or hierarchies; and what we can learn from ants with respect to direct and indirect communication, self-organization, job specialization, labor coordination, and global domination. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 39272]

The most complex organizations in the living world beside those of humans are the colonies of ants. Mark Moffett will argue that points of comparison between sharply different organisms like ants and humans are exceptionally valuable to science, and indeed that modern humans are in many ways much more like certain ants than we are to our nearest relatives, the chimpanzees. He considers such issues as the role of individuality and group identity in ant societies; the advantages to ants of flat organizations without leaders or hierarchies; and what we can learn from ants with respect to direct and indirect communication, self-organization, job specialization, labor coordination, and global domination. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 39272]

Welcome back to "From Our Neurons to Yours," a podcast from the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University. In this episode, we explore the collective intelligence of ant colonies with Deborah Gordon, a professor of biology at Stanford, an expert on ant behavior, and author of a new book, The Ecology of Collective Behavior.We discuss how ant colonies operate without centralized control, relying on simple local interactions, such as antennal contact, to coordinate their behavior. Gordon explains how studying ant colonies can provide insights into the workings of the human brain, highlighting parallels between different types of collective behavior in ants and the modular functions of the brain. Listen to the episode to learn more about the intelligence of ant colonies and the implications for neuroscience.LinksDr. Gordon's research websiteWhat ants teach us about the brain, cancer and the Internet (TED talk)An ant colony has memories that its individual members don't have (Aeon)The Queen does not rule (Aeon)Local links run the world (Aeon)The collective wisdom of ants (Scientific American)Deborah Gordon: Why Don't Ants Need A Leader? (NPR)What Do Ants Know That We Don't? (WIRED)Episode CreditsThis episode was produced by Michael Osborne, with production assistance by Morgan Honaker, and hosted by Nicholas Weiler. Cover art by Aimee Garza.Thanks for listening! Learn more about the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Hope you enjoyed the antics, stay tuned for what's next!! Sources https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VLBDVXLiWxQ&pp=ygURQ3Jhc2ggY291cnNlIGFudHM%3D (The Insane Biology of: Ant Colonies) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VLBDVXLiWxQ&pp=ygURQ3Jhc2ggY291cnNlIGFudHM%3D (The Insane Biology of: Ant Colonies) https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(06)01834-3.pdf (Communication in ants) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.16140( The response of ants to climate change

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Episode Title and Show Notes:106 - Michael Garfield & David Krakauer on Evolution, Information, and Jurassic ParkWelcome to Complexity, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I'm Michael Garfield, producer of this show and host for the last 105 episodes. Since October, 2019, we have brought you with us for far ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe. Today I step down and depart from SFI with one final appearance as the guest of this episode. Our guest host is SFI President David Krakauer, he and I will braid together with nine other conversations from the archives in a retrospective masterclass on how this podcast traced the contours of complexity. We'll look back on episodes with David, Brian Arthur, Geoffrey West, Doyne Farmer, Deborah Gordon, Tyler Marghetis, Simon DeDeo, Caleb Scharf, and Alison Gopnik to thread some of the show's key themes through into windmills and white whales, SFI pursues, and my own life's persistent greatest questions.We'll ask about the implications of a world transformed by science and technology by deeper understanding and prediction and the ever-present knock-on consequences. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts or Spotify and consider making a donation or finding other ways to engage with SFI at Santa fe.edu/engage. Thank you each and all for listening. It's been a pleasure and an honor to take you offroad with us over these last years.Follow SFI on social media: Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedIn

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What does it mean to think? What are the traits of thinking systems that we could use to identify them? Different environmental variables call for different strategies in individual and collective cognition — what defines the threshold at which so-called “solid” brains transition into “liquids”? And how might we apply these and related lessons from ecology and evolution to help steward a diverse and thriving future with technology, and keep the biosphere afloat?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I'm your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we'll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.This week on the show we talk to SFI External Professor Ricard Solé of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Website, Twitter, Google Scholar) about liquid and solid brains, the scaling of cognition, criticality, contagions, and terraforming our own planet with synthetic bio.Be sure to check out our extensive show notes with links to all our references at complexity.simplecast.com. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us, including our upcoming program for Undergraduate Complexity Research, our new SFI Press book Ex Machina by John H. Miller, and an open postdoctoral fellowship in Belief Dynamics — at santafe.edu/engage.Lastly, join us June 19-23 for Collective Intelligence: Foundations + Radical Ideas, a first-ever event open to both academics and professionals, with sessions on adaptive matter, animal groups, brains, AI, teams, and more.  Space is limited! Apps close February 1st. Learn more on our website.Thank you for listening!Join our Facebook discussion group to meet like minds and talk about each episode.Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano.Follow us on social media:Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedInReferenced & Related WorksLiquid and Solid Brains: Mapping the Cognition SpaceSFI Seminar by Ricard SoléJohn Hopfield (re: biology as computation)Synthetic transitions: towards a new synthesisby Ricard SoléComplexity 93 - Kate Adamala on Synthetic Biology, Origins of Life, and BioethicsThe Multiple Paths to Multiple Lifeby Chris Kempes and David KrakauerSimon Conway Morris (re: macroevolutionary trends)Scale and information-processing thresholds in Holocene social evolutionby Jaewon Shin et al.Smarter Parts Make Collective Systems Too Stubbornby Jordana Cepelewicz at Quanta MagazineComplexity 90 - Caleb Scharf on The Ascent of Information: Life in The Human DataomeWill Ratcliff (re: yeasts and emergent multi-cellularity)Complexity 29 - On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 3)Synthetic criticality in cellular brainsby Ricard Solé et al.Tom Ray (re: artificial life)Complexity and fragility in ecological networksby Ricard Solé and José MontoyaEcological Networks and Their Fragilityby José Montoya, Stuart Pimm, and Ricard SoléThe small world of human languageby Ramon Ferrer i Cancho and Ricard SoléMacroscopic patterns of interacting contagions are indistinguishable from social reinforcementby Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Sam Scarpino, and Jean-Gabriel YoungComplexity 56 - J. Doyne Farmer on The Complexity Economics RevolutionComplexity 66 - Katherine Collins on Better Investing Through BiomimicryChris Langton (re: criticality)Jim Crutchfield (re: the edge of chaos)Per Bak (re: self-organized criticality)Complexity 10 - Melanie Moses on Metabolic Scaling in Biology & ComputationComplexity 3 - Sabine Hauert on Swarming Across ScalesNiles Eldredge (re: punctuated equilibria)Terraforming the biosphere: can bioengineering save us?SFI Seminar by Ricard SoléEcological complexity and the biosphere: the next 30 yearsby Ricard Solé and Simon LevinEcological firewalls for synthetic biologyby Blai Vidiella and Ricard SoléRachel Armstrong (re: synthetic biology for CO2 fixing in concrete)Stewardship of global collective behaviorby Joseph Bak-Coleman et al.Complexity 64 - Reconstructing Ancient Superhighways with Stefani Crabtree and Devin WhiteComplexity 5 - Jennifer Dunne on Food Webs & ArchaeoEcology

Hello everybody and welcome to episode 42 of Daffy's Round Table!On todays episode we step away from reptiles to learn about another niche hobby. Ants!I met Zachary from the Canada Ant Colony at one of the expos a few months ago and went down a rabbit hole of looking up ants after seeing his booth. So I reached out to him and he agreed to come on the show and teach us about ants! We talk all about the different species of ants in the hobby, how to setup a formicarium for ants, what they eat and the interesting relationships between different species of ants.Huge shoutout and thank you to Exo Terra for sponsoring this podcast and making this episode possible. Exo Terra makes quality products for our pet reptiles to make them feel at home. If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe to Daffy's Round Table on whatever streaming platform you use! Follow Canada Ant Colony on Instagram: https://instagram.com/canada_ant_colony?igshid=NDk5N2NlZjQ=Check out Canada Ant Colony Website: https://canada-ant-colony.com/?fbclid=PAAaa6q4LdkIpba2EKahkZJnzZgopEK5DUFlifsi2E0Du18rc7_5nyIxp5LW0Looking for isopods, springtails or anything else you need to make your setup bioactive? Check out https://dzdherptiles.ca and use the code DAFFY10 for 10% off your order! Follow Daffy: Instagram: @DaffysreptilesTwitter: @DaffysreptilesFacebook: Facebook.com/DaffysreptilesTiktok: @DaffysreptilesBusiness: daffysreptiles@gmail.com

In our last episode with Tyler Marghetis, we learnt about how a complex system can tip from one state into another. But what happens when systems don't tip or fail? What makes a system robust? In today's episode, we're talking with Karoline Wiesner, a Professor of Complexity Science in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Potsdam, Germany. She breaks down the characteristics of a robust system, through the context of an incredibly robust complex system — the ant colony.   Connect: Simplifying Complexity on Twitter Sean Brady on Twitter Sean Brady on LinkedIn Brady Heywood website This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

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On this ID the Future, Animal Algorithms author Eric Cassell explores an algorithm in the brains of harvester ants that adjusts their foraging strategy based on how available food is in their environment, thereby guiding the harvester ants toward more efficient foraging. Cassell builds off a March 2022 article in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface to explain how the algorithm in the ant's tiny brain involves a sophisticated feedback control mechanism that includes both positive and negative feedback systems. As he further notes in the episode and in an article at Evolution News, a mathematical model of the harvester ants' foraging behavior by Stanford University scientists confirms the control algorithm is largely optimized. Cassell's recent book, Animal Algorithms, Read More › Source

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On today's ID the Future, radio host Hank Hanegraaff continues his conversation with Animal Algorithms author Eric Cassell. Here they look at more insects with strikingly sophisticated innate behavior, suggesting intricate algorithms encoded into their brains from birth, all of which cannot be effectively explained by reference to Darwinian evolution. Cassell and Hanegraaff touch on wasp martial arts; termite altruism and termite architectural skills, including a cooling system that has inspired a human design; interdependent social caste systems that enhance fitness; and spiderweb architecture and the extraordinary properties of spider silk, including the different kinds of silk and the spider's ability to employ different types precisely tailored for different needs. Cassell looks at evolutionary explanations for these innate abilities that Read More › Source

Do not skip today's episode of the Pestgeek Podcast as Integrated Pest Management Expert Franklin Hernandez (The Pestgeek) demonstrates how ant bait is carried into an ant colony just five minutes after being placed. #pestcontroltraining #pestcontrol #pestcontrolservice #pest #termitecontrol #pestmanagement #bugs #pestcontrollife #antirayap #covid #termites #insects #bedbugs #rodentcontrol #pests #fumigation #rayap #exterminator #termite #ants #fogging…

Irrespective of your values, if you're listening to this, you live in a pecking order. Dominance hierarchies, as they're called by animal behaviorists, define the lives of social creatures. The society itself is a kind of individual that gathers information and adapts to its surroundings by encoding stable environmental features in the power relationships between its members. But what works for the society at large often results in violence and inequity for its members; as the founder of this field of research put it, “A grave seriousness lies over the chicken yard.” Over the last hundred years, the science of dominance hierarchies has bloomed faster than a saloon brawl — branching out for deeper understanding of the lives of everything from fish to insects, apes to parakeets. Today, amidst clashing national and corporate titans, systemic economic inequality, and legitimacy crises in the institutions that once served to maintain (admittedly unfair) order, the time is ripe to turn to and learn from what science has discovered about the fundamental mechanisms that underly both human nature and the rest of it: who loses and who wins, and why, and at what cost?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I'm your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we'll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.This week on Complexity, we speak with former ASU-SFI Fellow Elizabeth Hobson (Website | Twitter), now an Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati, about the last century of pecking order research. Dobson just co-edited an issue of Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B devoted to this topic, and we unpack her and others' contributions to this volume — including retrospectives, literature reviews, quantitative analysis, and a look at the current state and frontiers of the science of what we can colloquially call “punching up and down”…If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe to Complexity Podcast wherever you prefer to listen, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts, and/or consider making a donation at santafe.edu/give.Thank you for listening!Join our Facebook discussion group to meet like minds and talk about each episode.Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano.Follow us on social media:Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedInPapers & People Discussed Include:• The centennial of the pecking order: current state and future prospects for the study of dominance hierarchiesEli D. Strauss, James P. Curley, Daizaburo Shizuka and Elizabeth A. Hobson• Quantifying the dynamics of nearly 100 years of dominance hierarchy researchElizabeth A. Hobson• DomArchive: a century of published dominance dataEli D. Strauss, Alex R. DeCasien, Gabriela Galindo, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Daizaburo Shizuka and James P. Curley• Social hierarchies and social networks in humansDaniel Redhead and Eleanor A. Power• Dominance in humansTian Chen Zeng, Joey T. Cheng and Joseph Henrich• From equality to hierarchySimon DeDeo and Elizabeth A. Hobson• More is DifferentPhil Anderson• Environmentally Mediated Social DilemmasSylvie Estrela, Eric Libby, Jeremy Van Cleve, Florence Débarre, Maxime Deforet, William R. Harcombe, Jorge Peña, Sam P. Brown, Michael E. Hochberg• Jessica Flack• Michael Mauboussin• Joshua Bell• Robert Kegan• Thorleif Schjelderup-EbbeRelated Podcast Episodes Include:• Sidney Redner on Statistics and Everyday Life• Simon DeDeo on Good Explanations & Diseases of Epistemology• Deborah Gordon on Ant Colonies as Distributed Computers• Jonas Dalege on The Physics of Attitudes & Beliefs• Fractal Conflicts & Swing Voters with Eddie Lee• Fighting Hate Speech with AI & Social Science (with Joshua Garland, Mirta Galesic, and Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi)• Matthew Jackson on Social & Economic Networks• Rajiv Sethi on Stereotypes, Crime, and The Pursuit of Justice

From “Invasion of the Ant Colony” to writing operas for the Canadian Opera Company, Ian Cusson has been telling stories through music since he was 8 years old. Ian is a Canadian composer of opera, art song and orchestral works who is heavily influenced by his Métis roots. He shares how he tells stories through sound, the benefits of brushing your teeth and joins Zara for the inaugural game of opera or cheese!Hear the full performance of "Dodo, mon tout petit" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOcZBLMctTQLearn more about Ian:Website: www.iancusson.comSoundcloud: soundcloud.com/ian-cussonInstagram: @iancussonHead to https://upperbeachesmusic.com/podcast to ask your music questions and Rebecca and Zara just might answer them on an upcoming episode!

Michael Bustos is the creator of Ants Canada, absolutely one of most fascinating channels on Youtube. A channel he created back in 2009 to share his love of ants and ant keeping with the world. Since then his channel has racked up more than 4 million subscribers who watch him tend to his ant colonies.  The videos on AntsCanada are beautiful, professional productions with gorgeous cinematography, dramatic soundtracks, and emotional storytelling. Mikey now lives in the Philippines in a stunningly beautiful jungle while building a new home. Mikey is also a singer-songwriter and comedian sporting a second gold play button with his other channel featuring his music videos and comedy skits. AntsCanada on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AntsCanada  Mikey Bustos channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MikeyBustosVideos 

The popular conception of ants is that “anatomy is destiny”: an ant's body type determines its role in the colony, for once and ever. But this is not the case; rather than forming rigid castes, ants act like a distributed computer in which tasks are re-allocated as the situation changes. “Division of labor” implies a constant “assembly line” environment, not fluid adaptation to evolving conditions. But ants do not just “graduate” from one task to another as they age; they pivot to accept the work required by their colony in any given moment. In this “agile” and dynamic process, ants act more like verbs than nouns — light on specialization and identity, heavy on collaboration and responsiveness. What can we learn from ants about the strategies for thriving in times of uncertainty and turbulence?What are the algorithms that ants use to navigate environmental change, and how might they inform the ways that we design technologies? How might they teach us to invest more wisely, to explore more thoughtfully?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I'm your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we'll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.In this episode we talk to SFI External Professor Deborah Gordon at Stanford University about the lessons we can learn from insect species whose individuals cannot be trained, but whose collective smarts have reshaped every continent. We muse on what the ants can teach us about a wide variety of real-world and philosophical concerns, including:  how our institutions age, how to fight cancer, how to build a more resilient Internet, and why the notion of the “individual” is overdue for renovation…If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe to Complexity Podcast wherever you prefer to listen, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts, and/or consider making a donation at santafe.edu/podcastgive. You can find numerous other ways to engage with us at santafe.edu/engage. Thank you for listening!Join our Facebook discussion group to meet like minds and talk about each episode.Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano.Follow us on social media:Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedInKey Links:Deborah Gordon at StanfordDeborah's TED Talk, "What Ants Can Teach Us About Brain Cancer and The Internet"Deborah's Google Scholar PageDeborah's book, Ants at Work: How an Insect Society is OrganizedFurther Exploration:Complexity 10 with Melanie Moses (ants, scaling, and computation)Complexity 29 with David Krakauer (catastrophe and investment strategy)Complexity 56 with J. Doyne Farmer (market ecology)Krakauer, et al., "The Information Theory of Individuality"W. Brian Arthur, "Economics in Nouns & Verbs"Michael Lachmann's research on Costly Signaling and Cancer 

Посебно трениран пас по имену Фјури од изузетне је вредности званичницима у Аустралији који желе да истребе агресивну врсту мрава.

A detection dog called Fury is helping authorities in Australia eradicate the last remaining pockets of aggressive yellow crazy ants. According to Gareth Humphries, who is part of the eradication effort, the ants are a menace in far north Queensland.

First discovered in Australia in the 1980s after probably arriving on a cargo ship, aggressive yellow crazy ants spray formic acid when aggravated, and have devastated populations of frogs, lizards and ground-nesting birds. - Пес по кличке Фури помогает специальным службам Австралии уничтожать последние оставшиеся очаги агрессивных желтых сумасшедших муравьев. Впервые обнаруженные в Австралии в 1980-х годах после того, как они, вероятно, были завезены сюда на грузовом судне, эти насекомые распыляют муравьиную кислоту, если чувствуют угрозу, и уничтожают популяции лягушек, ящериц и птиц, гнездящихся на земле.

Một con chó đánh hơi có tên là Fury hiện giúp cho nhà cầm quyền Úc tiêu diệt những hang ổ cuối cùng của loài kiến vàng hết sức hung hãn. Loại kiến nầy lần đầu tiên được phát hiện tại Úc vào thập niên 1980 có lẽ từ một chiếc tàu chở hàng, chúng phun ra acid formic khi bị tấn công và đã hủy diệt các loài khác như ếch, loại bò sát và các loại chim làm tổ trên mặt đất.

A detection dog called Fury is helping authorities in Australia eradicate the last remaining pockets of aggressive yellow crazy ants. The ants spray formic acid when aggravated.

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Have you ever been interested in keeping an ant colony? Well now you can know how! In this episode you'll learn just about everything you need to know about ant care. Please let me know if I missed anything via voice message. Check out AntsCanada on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCONd1SNf3_QqjzjCVsURNuA. There's so many great tips and facts on AntsCanada. It's a great channel. You can also buy test tubes and formicariums from AntsCanada: https://www.antscanada.com/.

Episode discussion topics Praise to The Old Farmer's Almanac to the rescue with the latest on a push to end Daylight Savings Time (DST) across the nation. Currently, this is a grand experiment alive and well among the states, counting Arizona and Hawaii out. Sometimes we are our own worse enemy. Automatic negative thinking, a form of cognitive distortion, has a tendency to trip us up because we don't make it a practice to notice it. Our older lizard brain has a bias towards risk avoidance which serves us well in the wilds, but not so much in the concrete jungle. Become more wise-minded by learning more about how your hardware works: "When Emotion Take Over" a very short overview by Healthline, a video on autonomous thinking and CBT, and a video on the wise mind. Observations from the Ant Colonies in our Phoenix hub in regard to the delicate dance of reproduction. We also touch on the sterility of humans and their friends. We're polluting our life soup at a record pace with consequences. The Guardian interviewed the author of the latest on the subject: Shanna Swan: 'Most couples may have to use assisted reproduction by 2045'.  We have to put on our own oxygen mask before helping others, and then we need to put on our critical thinking cap and be our own coach! Give yourself honest feedback that is actionable and then take action. Hold yourself to account for taking action and measuring the results. Take ownership of changing direction when needed based on your own assessment. Check your value system and also adjust accordingly. We need to open our hearts and minds to our neighbors. We stand with all human communities in the face of hate or other adversity. We are one human family, under the stars, on Earth with liberty and justice for all. Your hosts: Michael V. Piscitelli and Raymond Wong Jr. More info Change your self-talk and self-limiting beliefs to align with your values. If you're interested in more on CBT or other brain training-related resources, check out the tools that therapists use at Therapist Aid. Reiterating RWJ's call to action: reach out to your Asian (or otherwise) friends and make sure they know they count and challenge each other to do better by one another. Learn more and reach out Head to Citizens Prerogative for additional information and log in or sign up to leave a comment. Don't forget to join our free newsletter and get 10% off at our shop! Go the extra mile by supporting us through Patreon. Please contact us with any questions or suggestions. Special thanks Our ongoing supporters, thank you! Our sponsor CitizenDoGood.com. Graphic design by SergeShop.com. Intro music sampled from “Okay Class” by Ozzy Jock under creative commons license through freemusicarchive.org. Other music provided royalty-free through Fesliyan Studios Inc. 

คุยกันเรื่อง Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm ที่ได้รับแรงบันดาลใจมาจากการเดินหาอาหารของมด

Imagine you could experience worlds that you design and build the way you want them to be; alternative realities that you can enter and leave as you wish. Now, imagine there's no countries, nothing to kill or die for... imagine all the people, livin' life in peace.You may say I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one.Certainly not the only one. There are — and there have always been — brilliant minds that dream and work very hard to make wishes come true. The advancement of our knowledge and the convergence of advanced technologies has allowed us to reach goals in many different scientific disciplines that we could merely imagine a few decades ago. From self-driving cars and rovers on Mars; to Artificial Intelligence quantum computing; to clean energy and medical advancement — the future is a lot more present than you think.Some scenarios are more tangible than others; that may be, let's say, a bit more virtual and involve alternative realities. But what is reality anyway? In this podcast, we are joined by an incredible guest to talk about ant colonies, Metaverses, Virtual & Augmented Realities, diversity, ethics, and some thoughts about the future.She tells us about her zoology studies and how she became a Unity/C# games and software developer, specializing in immersive experiences such as AR, VR & XR.Her name is Antonia Forster. She is an experienced public speaker having delivered talks at venues including London Science Museum, the Royal Society, Kew Gardens, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, At-Bristol Science Museum, and more.In 2017, her record-breaking TEDxBristol talk was delivered to a live audience of 2,000 people and has since gained over 92,000 views online.In 2018, Antonia was nominated and shortlisted for Nature's John Maddox Prize in recognition of her work as an LGBTQ+ speaker and activist.She has been named one of Bristol's Top Nine "Women To Watch" in STEM and featured in numerous magazine, radio, and television features.Listen to this podcast, and we promise more fascinating conversations with her on ITSPmagazine.GuestAntonia Forster, XR Technical Specialist at Unity Technologies (@AntoniaRForster on Twitter)This Episode's SponsorsNintex: https://itspm.ag/itspntwebResourcesMore about Antonia, her technical work, and her show reel: https://antoniaforster.com/For more podcast stories from Audio Signals: https://www.itspmagazine.com/audio-signalsAre you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships

Imagine you could experience worlds that you design and build the way you want them to be; alternative realities that you can enter and leave as you wish. Now, Imagine there's no countries, nothing to kill or die for... imagine all the people, livin' life in peace.You may say I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one.Certainly not the only one. There are — and there have always been — brilliant minds that dream and work very hard to make wishes come true. The advancement of our knowledge and the convergence of advanced technologies have allowed us to reach goals in many different scientific disciplines that we could merely imagine a few decades ago. From self-driving cars and rovers on Mars; to Artificial Intelligence quantum computing; to clean energy and medical advancement — the future is a lot more present than you think.Some scenarios are more tangible than others; that may be, let's say, a bit more virtual and involve alternative realities. But what is reality anyway? In this podcast, we are joined by an incredible guest to talk about ant colonies, Metaverses, Virtual & Augmented Realities, diversity, ethics, and some thoughts about the future.She tells us about her zoology studies and how she became a Unity/C# games and software developer, specializing in immersive experiences such as AR, VR & XR.Her name is Antonia Forster. She is an experienced public speaker having delivered talks at venues including London Science Museum, the Royal Society, Kew Gardens, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, At-Bristol Science Museum, and more.In 2017, her record-breaking TEDxBristol talk was delivered to a live audience of 2,000 people and has since gained over 92,000 views online.In 2018, Antonia was nominated and shortlisted for Nature's John Maddox Prize in recognition of her work as an LGBTQ+ speaker and activist.She has been named one of Bristol's Top Nine "Women To Watch" in STEM and featured in numerous magazine, radio, and television features.Listen to this podcast, and we promise more fascinating conversations with her on ITSPmagazine.GuestAntonia Forster, XR Technical Specialist at Unity Technologies (@AntoniaRForster on Twitter)This Episode's SponsorsNintex: https://itspm.ag/itspntwebResourcesMore about Antonia, her technical work, and her show reel: https://antoniaforster.com/For more podcast stories from Audio Signals: https://www.itspmagazine.com/audio-signalsAre you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships

Dr. Audrey Dussutour is a National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Scientist at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France. Audrey studies animal behavior and collective intelligence in ant colonies and slime molds. In ant colonies, she examines how the ants regulate traffic to avoid traffic jams, and she creates algorithms that may help alleviate our own traffic jams. In slime molds, Audrey investigates the different cognitive abilities they are able to display even though they don’t have brains. Outside work, Audrey loves going out to the movies and watching DVDs. Some of her favorite directors are John Cassavetes and David Lynch, and she gets into sci-fi films as well. Audrey received a Masters Degrees in Ecology from Paul Sabatier University, a Masters Degree in Neurosciences and Ethology from the Free University of Brussels in Belgium, and a PhD in Animal Behavior working in laboratories from both of these universities. She next conducted postdoctoral research at Concordia University in Canada and at the University of Sydney in Australia. Audrey has received numerous awards and honors for her exceptional work, including the Adolphe Wetrems Award of the Belgian Royal Academy, the Young Investigator Award of the French Society for the Study of Animal Behavior, the Outstanding Paper Prize from the Journal of Experimental Biology, Lauréate du Prix Le Monde de la Recherche, and the Young Researcher Prize from the French Society for the Study of Animal Behavior. Audrey joined us for an interview to talk about her experiences in life and science.

In this episode of the podcast, we talk with a good friend of mine, Aaron Spina, about the very interesting world of electronics, as we dabble in the ideas of relays, logic gates, transistors, semiconductors, and other parts of the electronic circuits that run our everyday lives. We also dive into his past with astrophysics, where he talks about his thoughts on the big bang, aliens, our brainpower, and our everyday understanding of life. Oh and we talk a bit about video games as well. @ 0:00 Introduction @ 0:28 NASA VS SpaceX @ 1:05 Background, Physics, Electromechanical Engineering Technology @ 2:05 Interesting Electro-Mechanical Devices, The Relay and Electronic Switches @ 5:08 Future in Electromechanics, Job Prospects, And WORK @ 6:32 Circuits, Transistors, Logic Gates, and the CPU (Central Processing Unit) @ 8:32 Astrophysical Ideologies, Philosophies, Theories, Ideas, and the BIG BANG @ 9:12 Human Brain, Comprehension, and How Intelligent are We Really? Aliens, Friend, or Foe, Test Subjects @ 10:15 Living A Normal, Extraordinarily Ordinary, Life @ 10:55 Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence ( AI ), Virtual Reality ( VR ), and Augmented Reality ( AR ) @ 12:13 Future Tech, Ergonomics, Focusing on Real Life in a Digital World @ 14:02 The Past, The Present, And the Future of Video Games @ 16:26 The Problem with Present Game Titles, Death of The New, In With The Old @ 17:20 Death of The MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online Games), Roleplaying Games, and Competitive E-Sports Domination @ 20:54 Most Anticipated Future Video Games @ 22:04 Thoughts on GOD, The Difference Between US and Animals, Ant Colonies, and Moving Further Away From Spirituality

A Hive Podcast Network Presents: FormiCast Podcast Your official source for everything Ant Keeping Join our Discord Community today! Want to Join the Hive Discord? Click Here! Check out Ants Manitoba YouTube Channel! Get 10% off your next order till Nov 6th using the Code FORMICAST at the Canada Ant Colony Website! Sources for Today's Episode: https://antwiki.org/wiki/Adetomyrma_venatrix https://canada-ant-colony.com/blogs/news/guide-to-hibernation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vijGdWn5-h8 Sound Credit: https://youtu.be/1rfr2zS-xPk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLMf49hh5t4&t=38s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-sSy8urj-c&t=35s --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/formicast-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/formicast-podcast/support

In this podcast we literally discover Denmark's Biggest Ant Hill and Ant Colony in an obscure forest in the outskirts of Horlset. #Ants #Antcolony #Antlife #Denmark #Nature #Geographic #Anthill ⬇️ Official Drumkoon Handpan Music Links: linktr.ee/Drumkoon ⬇️ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/drumkoon-handpan/message

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.10.07.328047v1?rss=1 Authors: Zhao, J., Lynch, N., Pratt, S. C. Abstract: The decentralized cognition of animal groups is both a challenging biological problem and a potential basis for bio-inspired design. The understanding of these systems and their application can benefit from modeling and analysis of the underlying algorithms. In this study, we define a modeling framework that can be used to formally represent all components of such algorithms. As an example application of the framework, we adapt to it the much-studied house-hunting algorithm used by emigrating colonies of Temnothorax ants to reach consensus on a new nest. We provide a Python simulator that encodes accurate individual behavior rules and produces simulated behaviors consistent with empirical observations, on both the individual and group levels. Our model successfully reproduces experimental results showing the high cognitive capacity of colonies, their rational time investment during decision-making, and their ability to avoid and repair splits with the help of social information. We also use the model to make predictions about several unstudied aspects of emigration behavior. The results suggest the value of individual sensitivity to site population for ensuring consensus, and they indicate a more complex relationship between individual behavior and the speed/accuracy trade-off than previously appreciated. The model proved relatively weak at resolving colony divisions among multiple sites, suggesting either limits to the ants' ability to reach consensus, or an aspect of their behavior not captured in our model. It is our hope that these insights and predictions can inspire further research from both the biology and computer science community. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

We have a very exciting episode with Mikey Bustos and RJ Garcia! We'll talk about music, art and their passion for animals! We also dive into Mikey and Rj's world of ants, a parrot named Ligaya and their Dog Behind The Human. Enjoy!

A Hive Podcast Network Presents: FormiCast Podcast Your official source for everything Ant Keeping! Join our Discord Community today! Want to Join the Hive Discord? Click Here! Canada Ant Colony is a Canadian Queen Ants, Formicaria, and many more! Go to Zach's website to see more! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/formicast-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/formicast-podcast/support

A 100-year-old U.K. man is knighted after raising millions by walking, goats run loose in a California neighborhood, and millions of Facebook users pretend to be ants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just a couple boys using podcasting as an excuse to keep social distancing, and bullshit. Today we are talking about Facebook, Ant Colony, Office Group, Orgy Group, The Wanderer, Pokemon Go, Covid19, Bit Brigade, Pokemon, Ultra Moon, Sekiro, Podcasts, D&D, How to Defeat A Demon King, Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman, Chuck Tingle, Rick and Morty, We Summon The Darkness, batman, Return of the Caped Crusaders, Adventure Time, ZerWee, Roswell Kid, Sum 41, Chuck, Reel Big Fish, Skatoon Network, System of A Down, Rise Against, Drums, Playing Music, Yoga, Health and Wellness,

Från livesändningen den 23 maj - Ant Colony, rosor är röda-trenden och så får vi höra om André är smartare än en femteklassare. I studion: Programledare André Färnsveden och Sandra Christensen. Radiosvallet stöds av Studentkåren i Sundsvall (SKS) och Journalistförbundet Sundsvall (JFS)   

On the Internet, nobody knows if you're a dog. Or, an ant for that matter. And there are nearly 2 million people, all working together, pretending to be ants in a giant ant colony, in one special Facebook group. "A group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony" has exploded in popularity thanks to its imaginative premise, and because honestly what else are you going to do in quarantine? Also: Ants are cool AF. Alli and Jen talk with Sydney Malloy, one of the group's top "Ant-mins," about what it takes to keep 2 million "ants" in line on Facebook, why ants are awesome, and the joy of collaborative pretending online. The group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1416375691836223/ Support 2G1P on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/2G1P Join us on Discord: discord.gg/2g1p Email us: 2G1Podcast@gmail.com Talk to Alli and Jen: https://twitter.com/alligold https://twitter.com/joonbugger Call the show and leave a message! (347) 871-6548   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

we interview the creators of A Group Where We All Pretend to Be Ants Help us out on Patreon so Leroy can eat: Patreon.com/wildgreenmemes Join the colony: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1416375691836223/ Frog sounds at beginning credit Freesound.com user neboolya News clip credit KOB4 Trevor Noah clip credit The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Chad introduces the new structure of the channel! His VI Phase process to find the Meaning of Life in a humorous manner! We discuss the HUMAN ANT COLONY, which was mind blowing and interesting. Then Chad introduces his new partnering (getting to represent) with Fluent Forever! Click the link for 60 FREE DAYS!!! Learn to THINK in a new language in record time! https://fluent-forever.app/promo?coupon=NCP Make sure to also check out our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/napoleoncomplexpodcast

Today we discuss some of the weird lies we told when we were little, & we analyze what makes us lie. We hear about a Facebook group where members pretend to be ants. COVD-19 has caused the postponement of a wedding between a man & his sex doll. Find out why a man ejected himself out of an airplane. Susie talks about Victorian portraiture, & why it's surprisingly hilarious. Plus, we hear the origin of Yankee Doodle Dandies & their macaroni obsession.

This week I am joined by my close friend Angel. We talk about everything to scary locker room stories to an Ant Colony Facebook group. Tune in because this is a good one. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/christian-howe/message

Born in Kingston, raised in Ottawa and living in Toronto, Michael DeForge is a multi-Ignatz and Doug Wright award winning and Eisner nominated alternative cartoonist. His body of work numbers many web comics, zines, mini comics, graphic novels, anthologies and gallery shows. He's also a prolific commercial illustrator, having done many gig posters, media illustrations, film screening announcements and album covers. He is so prolific that he's often publishing at least two comic works a year either with Koyama Press or Drawn and Quarterly, including the award-winning series Lose, as well as graphic novels Ant Colony, Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero, Brat and more recent works like Stunt, Leaving Richard's Valley and his latest work, coming out the day after this Speech Bubble episode's release, from Drawn and Quarterly – Familiar Face.Michael sits down with Aaron to talk about the issues brought up by Familiar Face, including its inspiration – the simple fact that much of our lives are at the mercy of technology whether we want it to be or not. DeForge also takes Aaron inside his early work drawing gig posters for the Ottawa punk scene for free concert tickets and tells him how he illustrated the music he heard. You'll learn what and who influences his signature art style, from pencils to inks, colours and panel construction. You'll hear his thoughts on the impending closure of Koyama Press and the story of how he first met its namesake publisher “Saint” Annie Koyama. Oh and how could we forget, his work as a designer on the Adventure Time cartoon. Michael tells the story of how he got the job and what he actually designed for each episode and he lets us know that his last work for the series will be found on the mini series, Adventure Time: Distant Lands. This episode of Speech Bubble is brought to you by Hairy Tarantula at 3456 Yonge St. for all your comic and role-playing needs and Bam Coffee Co. where you can get a Bam Box full of freshly roasted coffee and geek swag like prints and mini comics for 15% off by entering SB15 at checkout.@michael_deforge@michael.deforgeMichaelDeforge.comBuy Michael DeForge's latest, Familiar FaceJoin Michael DeForge on tour March 2020Familiar Face Publisher, Drawn and QuarterlyStunt, Publisher Koyama PressBuy the Seripop gig posters that influenced Michael DeForgeMichael DeForge on IMDBMichael DeForge on Chapters.Indigo.caMichael DeForge's All Dogs Are Dogs at Saw Gallery 2015Sponsors Hairy Tarantula Bam Coffee Co.

Researchers tracked thousands of individual ants to determine how they move in vast numbers without stumbling into gridlock.

Researchers tracked thousands of individual ants to determine how they move in vast numbers without stumbling into gridlock.

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Welcome back. Welcome back to another edition of the Pest Geek Podcast. I am your host, Frank Hernandez, and we're going to be discussing the colony multiplication through both budding and mating flights of ants. And before I do that, I want to remind everybody we've got a couple of new things on the Web… The post Ant Colony Multiplication Through Both Budding and Mating Flights appeared first on Pest Geek Pest Control Podcast .

I try to educate myself on how ant colonies work in general. Towards the end of the podcast, I explain what I have learned in an organized manner (hopefully) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-offbeat/message

In this recording, I speak on the importance of an Ant Colony. Often times ants are looked upon as small insect that travel but I would see them in a way it takes teamwork to build their colony. It is my prayer that each person understand the level of their teammate. Be Blessed and Be Inspired.

MBL Minute: Ant Colonies And Wood vs Heat   Episode Notes   Companies need to focus less on growing their business and more on building organizations that can embrace change.  Any discussion about business, leadership and profit should include ants.  Ant colonies do not have bosses.  Every ant knows their job and they are able to do it without the drama, chaos and conflict we see in most organizations.    Imagine that you are standing in front of a large fireplace with your arms full of wood. Using someone else’s actions to justify your lack of engagement is like saying to that fireplace “I’ll give you wood when you give me heat.”  Disheartened by others’ failure to give, we often stubbornly refuse to give of ourselves, resulting in a frustrating stalemate.  The answer isn’t to stop giving. It is to give more. Your level of engagement is always your choice, regardless of the circumstances.    Thanks so much for listening!  If you like the show please subscribe to Master of Business Leadership and rate and review it wherever you get your podcasts.  It really does help new listeners discover the show.     iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/master-of-business-leadership-podcast/id1335503365 Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/master-of-business-leadership?refid=stpr Libsyn http://masterofbusinessleadership.libsyn.com   MBL Inc. www.MasterofBusinessLeadership.com   Phil Johnson on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipjpjohnson

Episode 2 of Yes or BS sees Ant and Paul discuss Edward VI’s mission to the Arctic, a cat that was made into a telephone, and an early entry in Dr Seuss’ back catalogue...

Cult-leader queens. Bullet ant stings. Kitchen pest hacks. The dynamics of a billion-sister megacolony. Dr. Terry McGlynn sits down to have a BIG discussion about itty-bitty creatures. Learn about tropical ants, urban ants, how they walk on water, which ones are picky eaters, which ones make weird sounds, what ant movies are bunk, and some self-help takeaways. Also: sniffing your relatives before deciding to kill them. Dr. Terry McGlynn's website Dr. Terry McGlynn on Twitter @hormiga Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes! Follow @Ologies on Twitter or Instagram Follow @AlieWard on Twitter or Instagram More links at www.alieward.com Sound editing by Steven Ray Morris Theme song by Nick Thorburn Support the show.

There's the new colony of leaf cutter ants at the Victoria Bug Zoo with the potential to reach over more than a million ants.

It's QnA Time! The Naked Scientists gathered a panel of experts to tackle your sci-curious questions; geneticist and food neuroscientist Giles Yeo, biologist and insect expert Chris Pull, material scientist Rachel Oliver and mathematician Bobby Seagull. So if you have any foodie thoughts, mathematical musings or an insect-ious thirst for knowledge, then this is the show for you. For full transcript visit thenakedscientists.comMusic from AudioNautix.com Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

It's QnA Time! The Naked Scientists gathered a panel of experts to tackle your sci-curious questions; geneticist and food neuroscientist Giles Yeo, biologist and insect expert Chris Pull, material scientist Rachel Oliver and mathematician Bobby Seagull. So if you have any foodie thoughts, mathematical musings or an insect-ious thirst for knowledge, then this is the show for you. For full transcript visit thenakedscientists.comMusic from AudioNautix.com Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Dr. Audrey Dussutour is a National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Scientist at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France. When she’s not in front of her computer screen for work, Audrey loves going out to the movies and watching DVDs from her extensive collection. Some of her favorite directors are John Cassavetes and David Lynch, and she gets into sci-fi films as well. Audrey studies animal behavior and collective intelligence in ant colonies and slime molds. In ant colonies, she examines how the ants regulate traffic to avoid traffic jams. By observing how they behave, she can create algorithms that may help alleviate our own traffic jams. In slime molds, Audrey investigates the different cognitive abilities they are able to display even though they don’t have brains. Audrey received a Masters Degrees in Ecology from Paul Sabatier University, a Masters Degree in Neurosciences and Ethology from the Free University of Brussels in Belgium, and a PhD in Animal Behavior working in laboratories from both of these universities. She next conducted postdoctoral research at Concordia University in Canada and at the University of Sydney in Australia. Audrey has received numerous awards and honors for her exceptional work, including the Adolphe Wetrems Award of the Belgian Royal Academy, the Young Investigator Award of the French Society for the Study of Animal Behavior, the Outstanding Paper Prize from the Journal of Experimental Biology, Laureate du Prix Le Monde de la Recherche, and the Young Researcher Prize from the French Society for the Study of Animal Behavior. Audrey joined us for an interview to talk about her experiences in life and science.

Hyper, irreverent, and just downright fabulous, ANT (spelled in caps) has  steadily climbed the comedy hill to become one of the most successful comedians of our time. A regular guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Tyra Banks show, ANT is the only comedian to appear on all five seasons of NBC’s hit series Last Comic Standing. He is recognized as the host VH1’s  Celebrity Fit Club and in the LOGO series, “U.S. of ANT.”  ANT ventured out of his comfort zone, appearing in  “Celebri-Cadabra.” a competition show featuring magic and celebrities. His hit stand-up DVD, “ANT: America’s Ready” and comedy CD “Follow my ass!” have sold tens of thousands of copies and are available in stores nationwide and online at every CD/DVD retailer including amazon.com.  ANT’s daily video blog, “The ANT Colony,” has taken the web by storm. Ant can currently be seen on various stages across the world and heard on his hit podcast, SECOND CHANCES.

What's the best rulebook you've ever read? Chad, Adam, and Ryan discuss the best and worst examples of board game rulebooks in the industry, and then battle each other for control of the Great Meadow in their review of March of the Ants. Also mentioned: Canada's Birthday (with our favourite games designed/illustrated by a Canadian), Ryan's first experience with Dread RPG, Adam's over-optimization of Boss Monster, and Chad's unfair experience with, well, Unfair.

Spaniel Rage (Drawn & Quarterly) Join Los Angeles-based cartoonist Vanessa Davis as she presents her latest release Spaniel Rage: a collection of frank, intimate pencil drawings created over the course of one year to chronicle her life as a single woman in New York. Filled with self-deprecating anecdotes about her anxieties, intimate moments between friends and lovers, and mingling general observations and wry truths about life in the Big City, Spaniel Rage is a witty tour de force that grabs you by the heartstrings. Vanessa Davis's autobiographical comics delighted readers ten years ago when she first began telling stories about her life in New York as a young single Jewish woman. More observational than confessional, Spaniel Rage is filled with frank and immediate pencil drawn accounts of dating woes, misunderstandings between her and her mother, and conversations with friends. Her keen observation of careless words spoken casually is refreshingly honest, yet never condemning. Unabashedly, Davis offers up gently self-deprecating anecdotes about her anxieties and wry truths about the contradictions of life in the big city. These comics are sexy, funny, lonely, beautiful, spare, and very smart—the finest work from a natural storyteller. Praise for Spaniel Rage "These comics are a gift. Casual, but precise, Davis has an emotional and intellectual range that creeps up on you with a warmth and a sensibility to the page that feels revelatory. Spaniel Rage is a brave, deeply felt work." Sammy Harkham, Kramers Ergot "Loose, perfect cartooning. Vanessa Davis is one of the very best." Michael DeForge, Big Kids, Ant Colony, and Lose "Vanessa's comics feel like a phone call with your best, warm, funny friend. I've kept this book close at hand for the last decade, re-reading it over lunches, in baths, and curled up in bed at night." Lisa Hanawalt, Bojack Horseman, Hot Dog Taste Test "I spent my 20s reading and re-reading this book. I'm still looking for clues in its warm, perfect drawings and clear, quiet voice a grateful ghost in the white spaces, standing by Vanessa's side." Eleanor Davis, How To Be Happy Vanessa Davis was born in Florida and currently lives in Los Angeles. She’s a cartoonist and illustrator who has contributed to Vice, the New York Times, Lucky Peach, and Tablet.  

This episode we discuss practice and recognizing patterns as they apply to guild ball and discuss how experience with other games can be translated to guild ball. We're always open to feedback and questions on the forums, twitter or email us at StrictlyWorstGB@gmail.com. Find us on Twitter @StrictlyWorstGB or Facebook at fb.me/StrictlyTheWorst. Strictly The Worst is an unofficial podcast and has no affiliation with Steamforged Games. Opinions expressed are solely the personal opinions of the hosts and in no way reflect the opinion of Steamforged Games.

Ants pt. 1

Ants pt. 2

In this week's mini episode, Linhda and Kyle discuss Ant Colony Optimization - a numerical / stochastic optimization technique which models its search after the process ants employ in using random walks to find a goal (food) and then leaving a pheremone trail in their walk back to the nest.  We even find some way of relating the city of San Francisco and running a restaurant into the discussion.

Rage of Poseidon (Drawn & Quarterly) + Ant Colony (Drawn + Quarterly) Anders Nilsen & Michael DeForge join forces for a can't-miss reading and presentation. Imagine you are Poseidon at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The oceans are dying and sailors have long since stopped paying tribute. They just don't need you anymore. What do you do? Perhaps, seeking answers, you go exploring. Maybe you end up in Wisconsin and discover the pleasures of the iced latte. And then, perhaps, everything goes wrong. Anders Nilsen, the author of Big Questions and Don't Go Where I Can't Follow, explores questions like these in his newest work, a darkly funny meditation on religion and faith with a modern twist. Rage of Poseidon brings all the philosophical depth of Nilsen's earlier work to bear on contemporary society, asking how a twenty-first-century child might respond to being sacrificed on a mountaintop, and probing the role gods like Venus and Bacchus might have in the world of today. Nilsen works in aunique style for these short stories, distilling individual moments in black silhouette on a spare white background. Above all, though, he immerses us seamlessly in a world where gods and humans are more alike than not, forcing us to recognize the humor in our (and their) desperation. In the few short years since he began his pamphlet-size comic book series Lose, Michael DeForge has announced himself as an important new voice in alternative comics. His brash, confident, undulating artwork sent a shock wave through the comics world for its unique, fully formed aesthetic. From its opening pages, Ant Colony immerses the reader in a world that is darkly existential, with false prophets, unjust wars, and corrupt police officers, as it follows the denizens of a black ant colony under attack from the nearby red ants. On the surface, it's the story of this war, the destruction of a civilization, and the ants' all too familiar desire to rebuild. Underneath, though, Ant Colony plumbs the deepest human concerns--loneliness, faith, love, apathy, and more. All of this is done with humor and sensitivity, exposing a world where spiders can wreak unimaginable amounts of havoc with a single gnash of their jaws. Michael DeForge's striking visual sensibility--stark lines, dramatic color choices, and brilliant use of page and panel space--stands out in this volume. Anders Nilsen is an award-winning cartoonist and visual artist. He is the author of several books, including Don't Go Where I Can't Follow and the magnum opus Big Questions, for which he was awarded the 2012 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book and the Ignatz Award, and was nominated for the top prize at the Angouleme International Comics Festival. Nilsen's works have been translated into a number of languages, and he has exhibited his drawing and painting internationally. He lives and works in Minneapolis. Michael DeForge was born in 1987 and grew up in Ottawa, Ontario. After a few years of experimenting with short strips and zines, he created Lose #1, his first full-length comic, which won Best Emerging Talent at the Doug Wright Awards. He has since published a handful of comic books, which have received industry praise and two Eisner Award nominations. His illustrations have been published in The New York Times and Bloomberg View; his comics have appeared in Believer, Maisonneuve, and the Adventure Time comic book series.

In this months episode of the PLoS Biology Podcast, PLoS Biology Editor Ruchir Shah interviews Sylvia Cremer, who is an evolutionary biologist at the Institute of Science and Technology in Austria. Her research team has published a new paper in PLoS Biology called “Social Transfer of Pathogenic Fungus promotes Active Immunization in Ant Colonies”. (http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001300) Sylvia has been interested in how social behaviors of insects can actually help provide immunity against various diseases, in a process called social immunization. In this podcast, we'll hear about how they were able to study this process in ant colonies, and what evolutionary advantages this behavior might have. We'll also hear some interesting stories about “group-level immunity” in other insect colonies, like leaf-cutter ants and bumblebees.

The science of social species goes under the microscope this week. We hear what radio-tagging individual ants is revealing about the way they organise their nests to decide who goes hunting and who stays at home. Meera explores the growth of urban apiculture, including why city-made honey tastes superior to its countryside equivalent, we find out how bees encountering hostility use a stop signal to deter their fellow foragers from befalling the same fate, and in Kitchen Science we explore the physics of flight to see how bees stay airborne. Plus why not cleaning your teeth could cause a heart... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

The science of social species goes under the microscope this week. We hear what radio-tagging individual ants is revealing about the way they organise their nests to decide who goes hunting and who stays at home. Meera explores the growth of urban apiculture, including why city-made honey tastes superior to its countryside equivalent, we find out how bees encountering hostility use a stop signal to deter their fellow foragers from befalling the same fate, and in Kitchen Science we explore the physics of flight to see how bees stay airborne. Plus why not cleaning your teeth could cause a heart... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Describes how ant colonies are able to react to changing environmental conditions with each ant knowing only limited local information.

Deborah M. Gordon, Professor of Biological Sciences at Stanford University, is an authority on ants and order that emerges without control or centralized authority. The conversation begins with what might be called the economics of ant colonies, how they manage to be organized without an organizer, the division of labor and the role of tradeoffs. The discussion then turns to the implications for human societies and the similarities and differences between human and natural orders.

Deborah M. Gordon, Professor of Biological Sciences at Stanford University, is an authority on ants and order that emerges without control or centralized authority. The conversation begins with what might be called the economics of ant colonies, how they manage to be organized without an organizer, the division of labor and the role of tradeoffs. The discussion then turns to the implications for human societies and the similarities and differences between human and natural orders.