{"id":7648,"date":"2012-11-23T16:50:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T08:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=7648"},"modified":"2014-04-14T15:33:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T07:33:59","slug":"friday-math-movie-how-things-in-nature-tend-to-sync-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-how-things-in-nature-tend-to-sync-up-7648","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie: How things in nature tend to sync up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematician Steven Strogatz shows how flocks of creatures (like birds, fireflies and fish) manage to synchronize and act as a unit - when no one's giving orders.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aSNrKS-sCE0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Strogatz writes a column in The New York Times, <i>Me, Myself and Math<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-how-things-in-nature-tend-to-sync-up-7648\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2012\/11\/spontaneous-synchronization.jpg\" alt=\"natural synching\" title=\"natural synching\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSteven Strogatz talks about how flocking behavior naturally occurs - and some mathematical reasons for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}