fireflies

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This week, we’re discussing an insect that often raises feelings of summer nostalgia. You probably have memories of chasing them at night, anticipating their bright yellow/green flicker of light. They can create some fantastic spectacles because of their bioluminescence, and they’re also crucial to the ecosystems they’re a part of. So, take a look outside tonight because we’re talking about fireflies.

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In episode 170, we get curious about glow in the dark for Charlie of Portland, Oregon and for Lyla.  We learn how things glow in the dark, why you need to crack glow sticks to make them glow, and whether there are any animals that glow in the dark. 

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“More than the sum of its parts” is practically the slogan of systems thinking. One canonical example is a beehive: individually, a honeybee is not that clever, but together they can function like shapeshifting metamaterials or mesh networks — some of humankind’s most sophisticated innovations. Emergent collective behavior is common in the insect world — and not just among superstar collaborators like bees, ants, and termites. One firefly, alone, blinks randomly; together, fireflies effect an awe-inspiring synchrony in large, coordinated light shows scientists are only starting to explain. It turns out that diversity is key, even in a swarm; variety improves the “computations” that these swarms perform as they adapt to their surroundings. Watch them self-organize for long enough and you might ask, “Is this what people do? What hidden patterns and emergent genius do we all participate in unawares?” If bees and fireflies inspire that kind of question in you, you’ll find yourself at home in this week’s episode…

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 conversation, we talk to SFI External Professor Orit Peleg (Google Scholar, Twitter) at the University of Colorado Boulder’s BioFrontiers Institute and Computer Science Department about her research into the collective behavior of bees and fireflies. These humble insects can, together, do amazing things — and what science shows about just how they do it points to deeper insights on the nature of noise, creativity, and life in our complex world.

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Collective mechanical adaptation in honeybee swarms

Collective ventilation in honeybee nests

Flow-mediated olfactory communication in honey bee swarms

Self-organization in natural swarms of Photinus carolinus synchronous fireflies

Spatiotemporal reconstruction of emergent flash synchronization in firefly swarms via stereoscopic 360-degree cameras

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@sfiscience on Orit Peleg’s research into honeybee olfactory communication

In this week's broadcast from an island of talking animals, writer and actor Lauren Schwein (ClickHole, The Monarchy) talks with Alex, while Rita the Rat is lying low and Randy the Rhino is having issues with his horn.

Credits: Alex - Alex Denney, Lauren - Lauren Schwein, Randy the Rhino - Doug Morency, Rita the Rat - Kensie Lane, Fireflies - Alex Denney, Cover Art - Mattie Schott, Sound Editing - Isaac Balachandran

This week we're cross-promoting with Monster Smash League, the podcast where monsters from folklore, mythology, literature, urban legend, and beyond battle to see who reigns supreme! Check them out on your podcast app or at monstersmashleague.podbean.com.

This episodes's suggestion word was "Firefly", given by Stephen Rokitka. We reach out for suggestion words from fans the day before every recording session, so be sure to follow us on social media for the chance for us to use a word you suggest in a future episode!
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What's cooler than cool? These ice cold polar bear facts. Drag Superstar, and general sweetheart, Holly Baloo guests this week to talk about everything from delayed implementation to the beauty of fireflies, how important toilets are, and how to classify humans for dating apps. 

We've made it to our first non-Miyazaki film and what an emotional 180 after My Neighbor Totoro. Of course we refer to Isao Takahata's wrenching 1988 WWII drama 'Grave of the Fireflies'.

Season 2 of Let's Talk Games continues with the next section of The Last of Us Part 2. If you have not played this game and want to experience it spoiler free, which I highly recommend, don't listen to this episode! Otherwise join us as we deal with awful things that happen in this episode.

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Jenny Curtis, Chris Porter, Micky Shiloah, Kuali'i Wittman, and Chance Welch play Crisis Management, a game they made up to play over the internet! Chance, as the judge, announces a global crisis and then provides a required element. The hosts have one minute to pitch a solution before the others have a chance to ask a question to poke holes in their idea...This time, a never-ending solar eclipse requires some creative thinking. (#tinysun)

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When life is done, love is not.
This song is from one of Summer's favorite childhood movies. She also discusses troubadours and their simple style of singing-storytelling, and the thoughtful lyrics of this song. Happy Valentine's Day!

Dumplin' + That Old Dream That Moves - Mandela Matthia is in the studio with Oscar Hype swirling around, we talk AACTAs, Cannes and serious acting. Starring in All These Creatures, an award winning Australian short film thats won Cannes, the AACTAs and surely seems likely to take home gold at the Academy Awards. We review the new ode to Dolly Parton starring Sydney actress Danielle Macdonald and Jennifer Aniston and a hard-to-find queer french film That Old Dream That Moves playing this week at Golden Age to launch the new edition of Fireflies. <3<3<3

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A rare primate in Borneo lands up on the IUCN's critically endangered list, Thailand moves to ban tiger breeding in private zoos, how a US town is preventing a Zika outbreak using mosquito-munching bats and a stranded whale calf rescued in Canada.

News Sources:

• BABY BELUGA RESCUE
• ORANGUTANS IN TROUBLE
• TIGER BREEDING BAN
• MOSQUITO MUNCHERS
• GLOWING, GLOWING, GONE!
• ELEPHANT CHARGE!

A rare primate in Borneo lands up on the IUCN's critically endangered list, Thailand moves to ban tiger breeding in private zoos, how a US town is preventing a Zika outbreak using mosquito-munching bats and a stranded whale calf rescued in Canada.

News Sources:

• BABY BELUGA RESCUE
• ORANGUTANS IN TROUBLE
• TIGER BREEDING BAN
• MOSQUITO MUNCHERS
• GLOWING, GLOWING, GONE!
• ELEPHANT CHARGE!