{"id":283,"date":"2011-03-09T22:02:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T06:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rensecorten.dds.nl\/?p=283"},"modified":"2011-03-09T22:05:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T06:05:37","slug":"a-beautiful-swarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/a-beautiful-swarm\/","title":{"rendered":"A beautiful swarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A fantastic video of an unusually large swarm of about 60,000 starlings, spotted this week over Utrecht, the Netherlands. Watching the swarm move around is almost hypnotizing . Notice the falcon flying around and through the swarm, changing the movement of the starlings. Another shorter video, but with music, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L6PbQ_eVtbQ&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The study of swarms is, by the way, a non-trivial and interesting endeavor, not unrelated to sociology, of course. In a way, it is the archetypal micro-macro transition. Wikipedia has an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swarm_behaviour\" target=\"_blank\">extensive article<\/a> on the topic.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"600\" height=\"368\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_tEFRAI9WSE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fantastic video of an unusually large swarm of about 60,000 starlings, spotted this week over Utrecht, the Netherlands. Watching the swarm move around is almost hypnotizing . Notice the falcon flying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}