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Feedback loops: How nature gets its rhythms - Anje-Margriet Neutel

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While feedback loops are a bummer at band practice, they are essential in nature. What does nature’s feedback look like, and how does it build the resilience of our world? Anje-Margriet Neutel describes some common positive and negative feedback loops, examining how an ecosystem’s many loops come together to make its ‘trademark sound.’

Describe three examples of positive feedback and three of negative feedback, in other systems that have many interacting parts – such as economic, social, political systems.

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  • Educator Anje-Margriet Neutel, Antonio Bodini, Eric Berlow
  • Animator Brad Purnell
  • Composer Ross Allchurch
  • Narrator Addison Anderson

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