for - ecology - red crabs of Christmas island - progress trap - invasive species - biocontrol - ecological engineering - wasps - ants
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- Nov 2025
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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- Jun 2025
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harpers.org harpers.org
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The neoliberal economist Gordon Tullock shared his admiration for Wilson’s “excellent” book. Tullock’s own foray into “bioeconomic theory,” The Economics of Non-Human Societies, argued that economic modeling could help explain how nonhuman animals like ants managed complex social coordination without central planning. “Social insects and other social species normally only have an economy, but no government,” Tullock wrote. “Humans think that government is a necessary precondition for the function of the economy, thus this proposition may seem bizarre.” This was precisely the premise that the most radical neoliberals sought to use sociobiology to question.
government as regulation of social trading/economies?
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- Sep 2023
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www.science.org www.science.org
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The insects spread internationally via shipping, especially of plants and soil. Red fire ants have been detected in imported products in Spain, Finland, and the Netherlands, but not as wild colonies.
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for: progress trap, red fire ants, fire ants, progress trap - shipping, unintended consequences, unintended consequences - shipping
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paraphrase
- Fire ants would be devastating if released in continental Europe and even more all around the Mediterranean Sea.
- The cost for human economies and well-being would be enormous. Where they have been invasive, they have:
- displaced native ant and other species
- damage electrical equipment
- A genetic analysis of the Italian ants suggests they likely came from either China or the United States.
- In the U.S., the species causes an estimated $6 billion in damage each year.
- The insects spread internationally via shipping, especially of plants and soil.
- Red fire ants have been detected in imported products in Spain, Finland, and the Netherlands, but not as wild colonies.
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- Aug 2022
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Stigmergy (/ˈstɪɡmərdʒi/ STIG-mər-jee) is a mechanism of indirect coordination, through the environment, between agents or actions.
Example: ant pheromone paths
Within ants, there can be a path left for others to follow, but what about natural paths in our environment that influence us to take them because of the idea of the "path of least resistence" or the effects of having paved cow paths.
Similarly being lead by "the company that you keep".
relathionship to research on hanging out with fat people tending to make one fatter.
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- Feb 2022
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s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
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concerted
Testing annotation -- Concerted like a Concert.
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- Feb 2016
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github.com github.com
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the ants registration can be made more robust by removing the Translate transform and using use initial_moving transform. i do like the transform parameters here:
https://github.com/nipy/nipype/blob/master/examples/fmri_ants_openfmri.py#L202
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