<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/science/ants-worker-idleness.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/science/ants-worker-idleness.html</a><br><div><br></div><div>-- rec --</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 6:56 PM Roger Critchlow <<a href="mailto:rec@elf.org">rec@elf.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6403/672.full" target="_blank">http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6403/672.full</a><br><div><br></div><div>In which it turns out that sometimes a worker standing idle contributes most efficiently to getting the collective job done.</div><div><br></div><div>-- rec --</div><div><br></div></div>
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