Directionally Challenged Europe
Europe’s financial compass seems to currently point towards ruin: seventeen European Union member-states that share a common currency, the Euro, face dire pecuniary straits. Since its 1999 inception, the monetary unit has allowed states from the tip of Iberia to the shores of Ionia to use equally-valued currency. Northern, Western, and Southern Europe once clamored […]
Triadic Closure on Tumblr
http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/26/tumblr-pageview-machine-bigger-than-wikipedia/ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204831304576594524134179668.html Founded in 2007 by David Karp, and currently valued at $800 million, Tumblr has grown since its inception and has become the 10th largest social networking site. Tumblr is a microblogging platform that allows users to upload a variety of content including pictures, text, links and videos and share them with other users. The unique […]
Network Balance and the Two-Party System
To an outsider, the two-party political system in the US can be quite strange. And even for those of us who have grown up watching Democrats and Republicans at each other’s throats, the system is frustrating (which is not to mention popular views that the system is inefficient and even dangerous in the event of […]
When Things Get Nashty
Today, people around the world are experiencing crisis after crisis. “Bank crisis,” “budget crisis,” and “government shutdown crisis” are all over TV and affecting the lives of many in different countries. After the economy hit bottom early 2009, many of us started to cheer for the recovery; in fact since mid-2010, the American economy seemed […]
Networks in Biology – Protein-Protein Interaction Networks in Yeast. We are living the era of the biological revolution. Barely 10 years ago, biologists sequenced the human genome, and since then the fields of genetics and genomics have grown exponentially. Predictions were made that the sequencing of the human genome (and of other species) would lead […]
Traffic Congestion Dilemma
–To Add or Not to Add Known as one of the most busy-traffic cites, Beijing struggles to deal with the heavy traffic jam and increasing traffic flow. A group from Microsoft Research Asia conducts a research about how to ease the traffic using the GPS data collected from city cabs. The researchers determine to construct […]
“TheTime Capsule Collection of Early Proof Sets”
The article “The Time Capsule Collection of Early Proof Sets” is taken from the “COINWeek” website. Recently in 2011 proof sets have been discovered and were auctioned. The story began when a dad took his son to the Philadelphia Mint in 1883 where he bought a proof set. Ever since that first visit, the boy […]
Auction listings greatly influence perceived item value
Researchers from Notre Dame conducted a study correlating winning bid values and characteristics of item listing. The study focused primarily on coins sold on eBay during a two year period. The results showed astounding differences in average winning bids for identical items with different listings. Items ending on weekends as well as those with a […]
Why the Population Decline, Japan?
The entrance of the Baby Boomers to retirement, and thus the social security payments, engendered much alarm in the United States as concerns about the burden of younger generations to support the huge number of Baby Boomers spread. In comparison to what Japan faces today, however, the US social security “crisis” appears to be laughable. […]
Movie Recommendations and Human Decisions
On October 2, 2006, Netflix introduced a competition called “The Netflix Prize”. The purpose of this competition was to better a movie recommendation algorithm. Along the way it revealed several insights about the way humans make decisions. If you do not already know, Netflix is a burgeoning company that started out in the business of […]
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