{"610022":{"#nid":"610022","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How Fire Ants Avoid Traffic Jams","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIs there a good excuse for laziness? Maybe, if you\u0026#39;re in a colony of ants. When they set out to dig a tunnel, only a few of them\u0026nbsp;actually work. The majority just get out of the way. It turns out that their laziness is a key strategy to getting work done efficiently and avoiding traffic jams, found\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/daniel-goldman\u0022\u003EDaniel Goldman\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;Find the\u0026nbsp;original Georgia Tech story\u0026nbsp;on his research \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/news\/more-workers-working-might-not-get-more-work-done-ants-and-robots-show\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E and more coverage at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/qz.com\/1361970\/too-many-cooks-in-the-kitchen-applies-to-ants-and-robots-too\/\u0022\u003EQuartz\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/animals\/a22768161\/lazy-ants-are-great-at-avoiding-traffic-jams\/\u0022\u003EPopular Mechanics\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34651","created_gmt":"2018-08-20 17:59:50","changed_gmt":"2018-08-20 22:04:54","author":"mrosten3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"John Lewis Student Center","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/segments\/how-fire-ants-avoid-traffic-jams\/","dateline":{"date":"2018-08-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-08-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"609889":{"id":"609889","type":"image","title":"Dan Goldman (R) with Ph.D. student Banhisikha Dutta","body":null,"created":"1534517244","gmt_created":"2018-08-17 14:47:24","changed":"1534517244","gmt_changed":"2018-08-17 14:47:24","alt":"","file":{"fid":"232268","name":"2018 Dan Goldman.dan-goldman-006.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2018%20Dan%20Goldman.dan-goldman-006.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2018%20Dan%20Goldman.dan-goldman-006.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":824218,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2018%20Dan%20Goldman.dan-goldman-006.jpg?itok=0-pgQZQp"}}},"media_ids":["609889"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"12040","name":"Daniel Goldman"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}