The Rules of Contagion
happened in 2007/8 – they often hoard money rather than lending it out. The rumour and speculation that circulates from one trad ...
split their activities. Because it was such a tough policy to get through, it wasn’t picked up elsewhere; ring-fencing was propo ...
‘madness of people’. We need to consider how beliefs and behaviours arise, and how they can spread. This means thinking about pe ...
3 The measure of friendship T were simple. If John Ellis lost at darts, he had to get the word ‘penguin’ into his next scien ...
series of junior researchers on two-year positions.[2] Young minds arrived from around the world, with Oppenheimer wanting to en ...
the years after Feynman announced his idea. He then went through each journal page-by-page, looking for references to Feynman di ...
cede the limelight. As physicist Max Planck supposedly once said, ‘science advances one funeral at a time.’ Researchers at MIT h ...
transmission will depend on how often contacts occur. If we want to understand contagion, we therefore need to work out how we i ...
for participants to answer honestly. Then there was the issue of sexual terminology. ‘There was that mismatch between the public ...
It’s one thing to measure such behaviour, but can this new information help predict the shape of epidemics? At the start of this ...
If we want to predict a person’s risk of infection, it’s not enough to measure how many contacts they have. We also need to thin ...
southeast outwards. It took about three months to move 2,000 kilometres across the eastern US, which works out at a speed of jus ...
Network over 32 Years’. They had studied health data from participants in the long-running Framingham Heart Study, based in the ...
process is also faster, with a smaller delay between yawns among family members than among acquaintances. Yawn in front of a str ...
interacted, the researchers tagged almost all the tits in the area with automated tracking devices. ‘We could get real-time info ...
friends have influenced you over time. Alternatively, it may be the other way around: you may have chosen to become friends beca ...
adopt a harmful activity like smoking on the off chance it will help us understand social behaviour. Rather than randomly introd ...
Take smoking. In the 1950s, researchers started to investigate the massive rise in lung cancer deaths that had occurred during t ...
Koch has failed with the mosquito in Italy,’ Manson wrote, ‘so you have time to grab the discovery for England.’ Eventually Koch ...
evidence from an experiment: if people stopped smoking, it should reduce their chances of cancer. In some cases, Bradford Hill s ...
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