In the news (front page)
WIRED Feature by Ed Yong on Iain’s work: The Power of Swarms
CBS News SmartPlanet Q&A with Iain Couzin
The Atlantic “The Science of Staring”
Our new paper on gaze copying in human crowds is available open access from PNAS: link.
Ed Yong, Discover: What are you looking at?
Coverage of some of our locust work - In Mauritania, sunny with a chance of locusts
Our Science paper “Uninformed individuals promote democratic consensus in animal groups” is now available for free download form our publications page!
- Press coverage of this paper:
- America votes with the fishes
- How ignorance could improve group decisions
- Disinterested ‘key in democracy’
- Why a democracy needs uninformed people
- Uncommitted newbies can foil forceful few
- Study of fish suggests the value of uninformed voters
- Minnows reveal power of the ‘uninformed’
- Less Knowledge, More Power: Uninformed Can Be Vital to Democracy, Study Finds
- Ist Ignoranz wichtig für die Demokratie?
- Democracy may depend on the ignorant
- Can ignorance make a better democracy? In fish it can…
- A democracy depends on uninformed individuals, maybe
- Iain talk at PopTech 2011:
- Iain Couzin is a 2011 PopTech Science and Public Leadership Fellow
- Iain talks on RadioLab (also here):
http://video.wnyc.org/radiolab/thegreenespace20100414_RadiolabIC.flv