Saturday, January 28, 2006

Spreading the disease, pt. 2

This cool little info-graphic is, coincidentally, the shape of doom. I've always considered the super-plague to be the worst end-game scenario. In a nuclear attack, people would generally band together to survive. In plague-world, every stranger becomes a threat to be shot on sight, like in a zombie movie.
"Using a popular internet game that traces the travels of dollar bills, scientists have unveiled statistical laws of human travel in the United States, and developed a mathematical description that can be used to model the spread of infectious disease in this country. This model is considered a breakthrough in the field."
Link, via ScienceDaily.

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