The Power of Bee Democracy

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Narrator/Writer: Stephanie Sammann
Writer: Ashleen Knutsen
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Producer: Brian McManus (https://www.youtube.com/c/realengineering)

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References:

[1] https://grammarist.com/new-words/hive-mind/#:~:text=The%20term%20hive%20mind%20seems,directed%20by%20a%20single%20intelligence.
[2] https://ucanr.edu/sites/PollenNation/Meet_The_Pollinators/Bees_496/#:~:text=Only%2010%25%20of%20the%20world's,percentage%20of%20these%20construct%20hives.&text=Most%20bees%2C%20approximately%2075%25%2C,nests%20tunneled%20into%20the%20soil.
[3] http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/dm/jamesgould-bees.pdf
[4] https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.4159/harvard.9780674418776/html
[5] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03526
[6] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bees/hivecomm.html
[7] https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400835959/html
[8] http://apps.usd.edu/coglab/WebersLaw.html#:~:text=Weber's%20Law%2C%20more%20simply%20stated,of%20the%20original%20stimulus%20value.&text=The%20Weber%20fraction%20equivalent%20for,10%2F100%20%3D%200.1).
[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hick%27s_law
[10] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249387/
[11] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22616-y

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