"After several failed attempts to talk to the spies himself, Šeba asked his student to explain to them that he wasn’t a tax collector, or a criminal — he was simply a “crazy” scientist willing to trade tequila for their data. The men handed over their used papers. When the researchers plotted thousands of bus departure times on a computer, their suspicions were confirmed: The interaction between drivers caused the spacing between departures to exhibit a distinctive pattern previously observed in quantum physics experiments." - Todd Hoff

"Scientists now believe the widespread phenomenon, known as “universality,” stems from an underlying connection to mathematics, and it is helping them to model complex systems from the Internet to Earth’s climate." -- odd sense of things. Doesn't math have a connection to the phenomena? It's the outcome of the interaction of packets of things, which IMHO explains the connection to math without suggesting a more radical ontology. - Todd Hoff

Awesome! Thanks for sharing :) - RetiredTeacherD