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Ep 27: Flight of the Ur-Sect
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 01:05:41
Publish Date: 2019-10-24 14:38:21
Description: Why did conventional thinking in aerodynamics fail to explain how insects fly? What can robots teach us about how insects do it? How do insect brains direct their incredible aerial feats and get around in the world? Michael Dickinson is a biologist at Caltech who uses robots to study how insects fly. More recently, he has focused on insect neurobiology and behavior. On this episode, Art and Marty talk with Michael about the mysteries of tiny insect flight, and how the presumably simple brains of such animals enable them to navigate sometimes vast distances. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bigbiology/message
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