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Web Game Helps Predict Spread of Epidemics

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. Re:Oddly enough... by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The pizza shop had giant cold sores?
    Ewwwwwwwwwww!!

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    No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
  2. To answer that question by ChallengerFive · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Where is George ? Where Oil is.

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