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Stephen Downes

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This is a good version of the metronome video that displays spontaneous synchronization, or as the caption says, "a collective effect observed in nature, whereby a population of oscillating units, which have diverse natural frequencies and are in weak interaction with one another, evolves to spontaneously exhibit collective oscillations at a common frequency."

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