Radio Lab - EmergenceApril 7, 2008 at 9–10 p.m.

From WNYC New York Public Radio, and NPR, KGSM presents Radio Lab. A series on science and culture. Tonight on Radio Lab: What happens when there is no leader? Starlings, bees, and ants manage just fine. In fact, they form staggeringly complicated societies, all without a Toscanini to conduct them into harmony. How? We gaze down at the bottom-up logic of cities, Google, even our very own brains. Featured: author Steven Johnson, fire-flyologists John and Elizabeth Buck, biologist E.O. Wilson, ant expert Debra Gordon, mathematician Steve Strogatz, economist James Surowiecki, and neurologists Oliver Sacks and Christof Koch.