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Web Game Helps Predict Spread of Epidemics

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 25, 2006 @02:19PM from the follow-the-money dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Using data from the web game wheresgeorge.com, which traces the travels of dollar bills, scientists have unveiled statistical laws of human travel and developed a mathematical description that can be used to model the spread of infectious disease."

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Re:Oddly enough... by $RANDOMLUSER · 2006-01-25 14:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The pizza shop had giant cold sores?
Ewwwwwwwwwww!!

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To answer that question by ChallengerFive · 2006-01-25 15:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Where is George ? Where Oil is.