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A growing body of research suggests that human behavior on social media — coordinated activism, information cascades, harassment mobs — bears striking similarity to this kind of so-called “emergent behavior” in nature: occasions when organisms like birds or fish or ants act as a cohesive unit, without hierarchical direction from a designated leader.

How Online Mobs Act Like Flocks of Birds | NOEMA

Renée DiResta

The hands and feet together have more than half the bones in the body.

The Body

Bill Bryson

Flexor muscles close joints, and extensor muscles open them; levators lift, and depressors lower; abductors move body parts away, and adductors draw them back; sphincters contract.

The Body

Bill Bryson

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