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"By what means are the Europeans thus powerful; or why, since they can so easily visit Asia and Africa for trade or conquest, cannot the Asiaticks and Africans invade their coasts, plant colonies in their ports, and give laws to their natural princes?

There was a little local difficulty in some of our minor colonies, but ... (Laughter) "China seems to have been long stationary, and probably long ago acquired that full complement of riches which is consistent with the nature of its laws and institutions.

So, ant colonies are a good example of an organization like that, and there are many others.

They all live in colonies consisting of one or a few queens, and then all the ants you see walking around are sterile female workers.

And all ant colonies have in common that there's no central control.

And I go there every year and look for all the colonies that were alive the year before, and figure out which ones have died, and put all the new ones on the map.

Ants never make more ants; colonies make more colonies.

And I know how colony size changes as a function of colony age because I've dug up colonies of known age and counted all the ants.

And I was working in the context of a view of ant colonies in which each ant was somehow dedicated to its task from birth and sort of performed independently of the others, knowing its place on the assembly line.

The worse things get, the more I hassle them, the more they act like undisturbed colonies.

So, we do a lot of simulation and modeling, and also experimental work, to try to figure out how those two kinds of noise combine to, in the aggregate, produce the predictable behavior of ant colonies.

Overwintering success is hard, and that's when most of the colonies are lost, and we found that in the cities, bees are surviving better than they are in the country.

I've pirated the term System D from the former French colonies.

There's a word in French that is débrouillardise, that means to be self-reliant, and the former French colonies have turned that into System D for the economy of self-reliance, or the DIY economy.

So these are systems which are made up of many interconnected or interacting parts: swarms of birds or fish, ant colonies, ecosystems, brains, financial markets.

Tomato growers now put bumblebee colonies inside the greenhouse to pollinate the tomatoes because they get much more efficient pollination when it's done naturally and they get better quality tomatoes.

We've been harvesting propolis out of bee colonies for human medicine, but we didn't know how good it was for the bees.

So seven years ago, when honeybee colonies were reported to be dying en masse, first in the United States, it was clear that there was something really, really wrong.

Fifty years ago, beekeepers would take a few colonies, hives of bees into the almond orchards, for pollination, and also because the pollen in an almond blossom is really high in protein.

MS: But then beekeepers are able to divide their colonies and so they can maintain the same number, they can recuperate some of their loss.

I vaguely knew this was to be the last of the moon missions, but I was absolutely certain there would be Mars colonies in my lifetime.

And to quote a fellow security researcher, Marcus Ranum, he said that the United States is right now treating the Internet as it would be treating one of its colonies.

And they live in maternity colonies, which means that every spring, the females meet after the winter hibernation, and they stay together for about six months to rear their young, and they all carry a very small chip, which means that every time one of them enters one of these specially equipped bat boxes, we know where she is, and more importantly, we know with whom she is.

It turns out that colonies are different.

On dry days, some colonies forage less, so colonies are different in how they manage this trade-off between spending water to search for seeds and getting water back in the form of seeds.

And we're trying to understand why some colonies forage less than others by thinking about ants as neurons, using models from neuroscience.

And what we're looking for is whether there might be small differences among colonies in how many interactions each ant needs before it's willing to go out and forage, because a colony like that would forage less.

This is a map of the study site where I have been tracking this population of harvester ant colonies for 28 years, which is about as long as a colony lives.

Each symbol is a colony, and the size of the symbol is how many offspring it had, because we were able to use genetic variation to match up parent and offspring colonies, that is, to figure out which colonies were founded by a daughter queen produced by which parent colony.

Here's her daughter colony, here's her granddaughter colony, and these are her great-granddaughter colonies.

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