marginalium noun

the notes one makes in the margins.

A short note on

ants are very cool.

August 10, 2024

source: clairelevans.substack.com

by Dorian Minors

I did brain science at Cambridge. Now I'm a behaviour science professor. Read my shit.

Ants are very cool. Here is one quote:

the algorithm Harvester ants use to regulate their foraging behavior across the desert is uncannily similar to the Transmission Control Protocol used to regulate data traffic on the internet, for example. Meaning that ants beat us to network design by a hundred million years.

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