Antibiotics and Game Theory
https://theconversation.com/antibiotics-why-asking-doctors-to-prescribe-fewer-is-futile-115886 Antibiotics have been used for many years to help alleviate bacterial infections. This article discusses the increasing problem of over-prescribing antibiotics in today’s society. Excessive use of antibiotics leads to the occurrence of antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic resistance causes antibiotics to become ineffective because a single bacterium could be immune and then multiply despite the […]
Social Network Between Sony and Disney’s Marvel Studios
In 2015, Sony and Disney’s Marvel Studios signed a five-movie deal outlining that Spider-Man would be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, recently, this past summer, it was announced that this deal would come to an end because Sony and Disney were unable to reach an agreement. During the original deal, the agreement was […]
Game Theory in Baseball: A 3-0 Count
Game Theory Applications in Baseball Game theory is ever present in our daily lives and especially in games that we observe on a daily basis. This article discusses the applications of game theory in the game of baseball, and specifically in the case of a 3-0 count in an at bat. A 3-0 count […]
Waze and Braess’s Paradox
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2018-05-07/why-some-cities-have-had-enough-of-waze Anyone who commutes regularly via car knows the frustration and helplessness of being stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic. Before the age of GPS systems in cars and on smartphones, there was nothing drivers could do to avoid a rush hour buildup unless they already knew an alternative route. Now, drivers turn to the crowdsourced GPS […]
Boris Johnson, Brexit, and Modern Madman Theory
The term “madman theory” has come back into relevance to describe U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s strategy of nuclear confrontation when handling Brexit. The term “madman theory” was first coined to describe U.S. President Richard Nixon’s unbridled strategy in dealing with the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. Antonio Cabrales, an economics […]
Structural Balance Property in the Dee Dee and Gypsy Blancharde Tragedy
The murder of Dee Dee Blancharde by her daughter Gypsy shocked everyone when news came out that the mother had a syndrome called Munchausen by proxy and was purposely making her daughter sick. Dee Dee made it appear that Gypsy had defective chromosomes, sleep apnea, epilepsy, brain damage, and cancer, implied from her shaved head. […]
Track Cycling
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/08/olympic-game-theory.html Game Theory and Nash Equilibriums in Olympic Track Cycling. In the Individual sprint track cycling event two riders start head to head and the first person to complete three laps of the track wins. As in the case for most types of sprint races, one would assume that each competitor would try to […]
Smart Vehicles and Degamifying Transportation
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/smart-transportation_final.pdf This report from the Brookings Institution discusses how autonomous driving may pose a solution to a number of traffic concerns. As a number of sizeable rural and suburban populations move into cities, urban streets grow increasingly congested. Much of this is due to the lack of coordination between vehicles, resulting in large stoppages […]
The Tik Tok Takeover
https://hbr.org/2019/09/the-strategy-behind-tiktoks-global-rise Want to see comedic nurses or military officers lip syncing to baby shark? Or entertainers reenacting famous memes like “Hit or Miss”? If yes, then Tik Tok is the place for you. You’ve probably heard about, if not fell into, the TikTok spiral that seems to have the whole world enraptured in its innovative […]
Workplace Inequality through Network Referrals
https://phys.org/news/2019-03-human-networks-inequality-social-immobility.html As the degree of interconnectedness of people increases, inequality of people excluded from those networks increases too. Ethnic minorities tend to fall on the outside of social networks, act as bridges less, and exist more in networks of people of their ethnicities (homophily). Overt discrimination in the past has led minority networks to […]
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