Playing the odds: The U.S. presidential election
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/09/obamas-playitsafe-strategy-136589.html Haberman’s article describes how Barack Obama is taking a more cautious strategy for the upcoming 2012 Presidential Elections, while candidate Mitt Romney is taking more of an aggressive, high-risk approach. The author attributes Obama’s laid-back demeanor to Romney’s consistent blunders associated with his high-risk campaign strategy. Democratic National Committee Chairman Ed Rendell compares the cautious […]
Vaccines and Game Theory
Article: http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/research/rh-2012/gaming-the-flu-how-w-20120801 Actual Study: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/07/18/0956797612437606.full As the season shifts to fall and then to winter, seasonal flu is becoming prominent again. Through years of research, now we have vaccines to help prevent us from getting the flu. However, recent studies have indicated that people in different age groups value vaccines differently. Young people, despite the fact […]
Article:http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/congressional-prisoners-dilemma What do campaign finance, immigration, raising taxes, social security, and drug control have in common? They are all political issues no one wants to touch. For both Republicans and Democrats these issues polarize inside their own party and the choice is between a rock and a hard place, usually taking the form of […]
Networks Within the Gaming Community
The link at the bottom is to a website promoting a new computer game a group of people decided to make. The website helping this game is known as a kickstarter. It helps new and budding game designers display their ideas and concepts to the gaming community. In order to make a kickstarter, one simply […]
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