Falling in love with Strong Triadic Closure
http://www.eharmony.com/ https://www.gotinder.com/ Websites like eHarmony and Tinder exist because I don’t have time to decide which of 3 billion ladies is unworthy of my attention and love. Online dating social media sites like these make millions a year turning single fools into dating or even married fools. And it’s all made possible thanks to Strong […]
The Retirement Game
Some games are designed in a way that causes people to believe one strategy is the dominant strategy on first glance. One such “game” that this website indicates is retirement plans. In a simplified version of the retirement plan game, people are promised either a set yearly payout over a period of time or a […]
Adding the Body to the Personal Network
In a world where everything is connected, from our phones to our watches and TVs, perhaps the only thing that isn’t linked to the internet is our bodies. This could change with the research of a team at University of California, San Diego. A team is developing a technology that allows devices that one usually […]
Multi-level Marketing—Clever but Potentially Deceptive
http://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2015/08/26/federal-trade-commission-calls-vemma-a-pyramid-scheme-that-preys-on-young-adults/ The Federal Trade Commission has recently moved to shut down Vemma, a company selling energy drinks, for using a pyramid scheme to allure distributors, most of whom are college students. The company has generated millions of dollars of profits while often yielding nothing to naive students, who spent hundreds of dollars on starter packs […]
The Prisoner’s Dilemma Case Study
http://www.businessinsider.com/prisoners-dilemma-in-real-life-2013-7 Business Insider published an article entitled “They Finally Tested The ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ On Actual Prisoners – And The Results Were Not What Would Expect”, where they discussed the results of a case study testing the most popular game in game theory. Rather than testing the situation with years of jail added to their sentences, […]
Hybrid speciation and its relation to network structures
As a plant science major, I often find myself fascinated by evolution. It is the driving force of the incredible complexity that we see in the natural world around us. This complexity is due to the natural process of life filling every possible environmental niche possible. This pervasive process is known as speciation. However, the […]
Crystal: Understanding People’s Personalities Through Technology
Living in a world where there is an abundance of personal information available online, in social media profiles including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, people often don’t realize what strangers can learn about them. Crystal is an app created by a startup, which harvests and compiles this information to create a personality description of the subject […]
Tesla’s Developing Network
Known for their electric cars, Tesla Motors is selling their cars throughout the US without a middleman. They are not using dealerships as the typical car company does. Rather, they sell their cars at showrooms owned by Tesla. Because auto sales are regulated by state, Tesla cannot sell their cars in Texas. In addition to […]
The Rise of Megaregions as Transportation Networks in the U.S.
Highway congestion, increasing energy consumption, and lengthening commute times are all pressing issues faced by America’s transportation system today. In order to keep up with the rising demand for the movement of goods and people, it has been predicted that by 2050, our traditional highway system and transportation infrastructure will have grown and changed into […]
Brain Structure and Disease
By applying graph theory to how they model the structure of the brain, many scientists have recognized topological patterns among patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease or schizophrenia. Most brain networks use the most simplistic model for the brain, an undirected, unweighted graph. The way the graph defines its nodes or edges depends on the scale […]
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