{"id":330,"date":"2009-04-17T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T09:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.wpdude.com\/test\/?p=330"},"modified":"2009-04-17T09:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T09:34:00","slug":"brighton-birds-flocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/04\/brighton-birds-flocking\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton Birds Flocking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_8vF1TTyV5ww\/SehN2HZoEHI\/AAAAAAAABdc\/nHWaenIwjO0\/s1600-h\/brighton_birds.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325592151460417650\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 264px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_8vF1TTyV5ww\/SehN2HZoEHI\/AAAAAAAABdc\/nHWaenIwjO0\/s400\/brighton_birds.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><strong>Every evening Brighton starlings flock by the Pier. The Brighton birds are the ultimate team but birds are stoopid right? The pattern emerges because of a few behavioural rules and bodily communication. I suspect people also coordinate in unconscious ways similar to this involving subtle non-verbal signals.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><\/strong> <\/div>\n<div><strong><\/strong> <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Steven Strogatz talks at TED below about how nature &#8211; and this includes groups of people &#8211; have a tendency towards synchronisation. We like coordinating due to our social nature. Note how easily the audience claps in sync. The <a href=\"http:\/\/integrationtraining.co.uk\/teambuilding_brighton.html\">team building<\/a> I lead involves physical practices, sound and touch as in my view these are the basis of synchronisation in people &#8211; and these are often missing in the corporate world. <\/div>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xLyZpWSc5Dk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/object><br \/><object style=\"WIDTH: 423px; HEIGHT: 324px\" height=\"324\" width=\"423\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/embed\/StevenStrogatz_2004-embed_high.flv&amp;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/StevenStrogatz-2004.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=422\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every evening Brighton starlings flock by the Pier. The Brighton birds are the ultimate team but birds are stoopid right? The pattern emerges because of a few behavioural rules and bodily communication. I suspect people also coordinate in unconscious ways similar to this involving subtle non-verbal signals. Steven Strogatz talks at TED below about how nature &#8211; and this includes groups of people &#8211; have a tendency towards synchronisation. We like coordinating due to our social nature. Note how easily the audience claps in sync. The team building I lead involves physical practices, sound and touch as in my view <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9xvDN-5k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}