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2013-12-30

starling murmurations over boundary bay





"starling flocks, it turns out, are best described with equations of "critical transitions"
systems that are poised to tip, to be almost instantly and completely transformed, like metals 
becoming magnetized or liquid turning to gas. each starling in a flock is connected to every
other. when a flock turns in unison, it’s a phase transition. . . .

but what physiological mechanisms allow it to happen almost simultaneously in two birds
separated by hundreds of feet and hundreds of other birds? that remains to be discovered" . . .

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                                                       startling!

2 comments:

  1. аууу, как съм го пропуснала това!! разкош! :)))

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  2. бяха при нас около новата година, но вече ги няма.
    отлетяха по други места - да се преливат в небето.

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