The Arms Race, Curiosity, and Intergalactic Tea Parties
While mankind has evolved, changed, and adapted to its environment, there has been one consistent theme. I’m not talking about the drive to reproduce, (even though that’s certainly been there from the start as well). No, the theme I’m referring to is curiosity. Deeply ingrained in our genes, man has forever been trying to figure […]
Agricultural Farmers versus Factory Farmers: Whether to Treat Animals with Antibiotics
The continuous debate of the use of antibiotics in farming has separated farming into two groups: agricultural farming and factory farming. Agricultural farmers are primarily concerned about the welfare and health of their animals and the quality of lifestyle that these animals experience. They focus on how treatments of farm animals affect their produce. On the other […]
Cognitive Dissonance in Game Behavior
In games, there is a behavior that creates a prisoner’s dilemma when you start to lose. When you start to lose, often times players will stop playing rationally this is due to Cognitive dissonance. When a player realizes they’re losing or doing bad and aren’t actually as good as they think, it creates a conflict […]
NFL vs. Referees Negotiations
In its recent quick fix turned experiment-gone-wrong, the NFL experienced the most severe blow to its brand in recent memory. The replacement referee debacle came to a spearhead last Monday night when the Packers faced the Seahawks in Seattle and lost on a hail-mary effort that replacement referees inexplicably called a touchdown but was obviously […]
Avoiding the Fiscal Cliff? Gaming US Fiscal Reform
“There are equations in which certain relationships become progressively explosive” This quote by Alan Greenspan, one of the foremost economic minds of our time, is a warning of the volatile nature of the ballooning federal deficit. Caught in a vicious downward spiral “in which increasing interest payments increase the deficit and debt, leading to another […]
Dominant Strategies in Investing
Efficient market theory, which is widely popular among academics and institutional investors alike, suggests that financial markets are efficiently priced and that over long periods of time, no investor can realistically expect to outperform the market. The evidence in support of this view is staggering and actively managed portfolios have indeed underperformed comparable index funds […]
Social networking. Is it a distraction from work or can it be professional?
Social networking. Is it a distraction from work or can it be professional? Technology is advancing rapidly in today’s society and the amount of users increase consistently. A survey conducted about seven years ago returned the results that on 5% Americans were frequent social network users. The survey was released again about a year ago […]
Career Networks: Co-ops, Internships and Full-Time Jobs
The process of job placement is a difficult one and one which includes the idea of perfect matching within networks. The idea of constricted set often plays a role when placing students at different jobs, internships and co-ops. Just like how the hospital homework problem, with the eight medical students who were qualified for at […]
The Syrian Conflict: A Graph Analysis
Networks Syria Issue The Syrian Rebellion is the most talked about phenomenon on the world stage today, and for good reason. It has everything to grab the world’s attention: a ruthless dictator is slaughtering his own people and catapulting his country into civil war in possibly the most unstable region in the world. But the […]
Why do you cheat in exams? Because others do!
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=132376&page=1#.UGpU8_k6WFc This article talks about the trend that more and more high school students and college students are beginning to cheat in the exams. Why there is such phenomenon now? In the article, it mentioned that when talking with students, students give out many different reasons. Some say that they cannot learn anything, but just […]
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