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RadioLab Podcast and Emergence

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Radiolab Podcast

One of the great podcasts available on “The Interweb” is Radiolab.  For me, RadioLab is a great mix of science, technology, and philosophy.  A recent favorite is the episode on Emergence which discusses how, for example, individual ants or brain cells can do little on their own and have little power, but when grouped together they can do amazing things.  Emergence, I believe, helps explain the real power behind social networking sites such as Google, MySpace and Facebook.  Google is a social networking site you say?  Well think about it, a web site’s Google search placement is based (mostly) on how many other sites are linked to it, often known as “Google Juice“.  So the power if many “weak” links results in a site being popular within Google.

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