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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Science/Mathematics Lesson and Spelling Word of the Day : Murmuration

From Open Culture:


Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.



Sophie Windsor Clive and Liberty Smith were canoeing somewhere in Ireland when they had a chance encounter with one of nature’s greatest and most fleeting phenomena — a murmuration of starlings. The spectacle is a magical case of mathematical chaos in action. And, it’s all driven by the quest for survival. The Telegraph has more….
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