This academic paper, “Oxytocin Increases Generosity in Humans,” details the study of the effect on material generosity from greater-than-normal doses of a hormone in a small sample of test subjects. The game used during the experiment is a variation of the money-splitting game we considered as part of our exploration of network exchange theory.
In […]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/science/09tier.html
http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/how-the-low-fat-low-fact-cascade-just-keeps-rolling-along/
The article that I’ve chosen for this post (first link) is about how the medical world was duped into the cascading idea that a low-fat diet would lower the risk of heart disease. John Tierney, a science columnist for The New York Times, cites Gary Taubes’ book, Good Calories, Bad Calories to explain the steps […]

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7175/full/nature06455.html
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7175/box/nature06455_BX1.html
“The coevolution of choosiness and cooperation” from Nature magazine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strategy
Supplementary Wikipedia article: “Evolutionarily Stable Strategy”
The motivation for analyzing choosiness and cooperation between individuals is to seek a better understanding of biological systems and human societies. The interaction that occurs specifically between non-relatives is what the article focuses on.
The way choosiness and cooperation relate to the […]

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3659/is_200606/ai_n17175649/pg_3
In looking into the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, this principle helps explain the frequencies of alleles and genotypes in a population that remains constant from generation to generation. This of course occurs only when certain factors are kept constant. This principle works hand in hand with Mendelian segregation and recombinations of alleles. The five factors include random […]

New Technology Protects Internet Advertisers From Click Fraud
In class this week we learned about search engines such as Google and Yahoo which hold auctions for keyword search results and have advertisement placement based on a pay-per-click process. Google says that “You’re charged only if someone clicks your ad, not when your ad is displayed”. […]

Watching Monty Python the other day, I found my thoughts wandering once again back to Networks 204 and Gladwell’s description of a syphilis epidemic in Baltimore: how it spread from the projects along local highways during summer months and contracted during the winter. Explicitly drawing a connection between contagious viral diseases and transportation networks […]

Throughout the course, I have enjoyed the fact that our social networks are compared to “harder” sciences (potential energy of an auction or the current of the “water cycle” of PageRank). As a biologist, I am more familiar with the concepts of physics and math than I am with those of economics or sociology, […]

https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/daniel_finkelstein/article3399671.ece
http://findarticales.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_4_166/ai_n6151880/
In a recent article on the timesonline.co.uk website, game theory was related to the politics in relations to the Tories. In the article,game theory’s selfish strategies and cooperative strategies are discussed and an interesting point about vampire bats were mentioned. Upon some searching, I came across and article in Science News further explaining the example […]

In a study at Kansas University conducted by Michael Vitevich, an attempt is made to map out the words of our vocabulary as they are represented in the human brain. What Vitevich hopes to learn from charting out our vocabularies in the brain is how victims of brain trauma regain their language skills, but […]

Network World is a weekly IT publication that provides news and information to network executives.This Network World article (http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/25502) describes plans for modular satellite technology, which is intended to replace present day all-in-one, monolithic spacecrafts. The project sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) hopes to solve issues of scalability and reliability by splitting […]