Environmentally Driven Migration in a Social Network Game
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep12481 In the article, an experiment was conducted to see how the payoffs for cooperative versus non-cooperative players compared in online social network games. The researchers found that by analyzing two separate games, they came to very similar conclusions. Although non-cooperators can take advantage of cooperators, which would suggest that the migration of the […]
How Game Theory Explains the Leaks in the Trump White House
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-game-theory-explains-the-leaks-in-the-trump-white-house During the Trump presidency, there have been many high-profile leaks from the White House: National Security officer Michael Flynn met with the Russians, Trump called Africa a sh**hole, and unfortunately many more. In May, one particular leak caught the public’s attention and opprobrium: White House aide Kelly Sadler mentioned very callously that McCain’s opinion […]
A Microorganism’s Friend
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-018-0004-5 Several studies in recent years point to just how much the human body is affected by the tiny organisms on us and in us. Their impact indicates that microorganisms could contribute more to our human functions than our own DNA. This growing interest in microorganisms motivates research about microorganism interaction. It turns out […]
Trade Wars, Irrational Yet Rational
https://www.ft.com/content/d288a98e-2e90-11e8-9b4b-bc4b9f08f381 In class, on our topic of game theory, we discussed the prisoner’s dilemma. A Prisoner’s dilemma is essentially when both parties are given the choice to confess or not confess. If they both confess they both lose big. If they both don’t confess they don’t lose at all. If one confesses and the other […]
How Facebook and Twitter affects Political Participation with respect to Strong and Weak ties
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10584609.2017.1334726 This paper discusses how the choice of social media platforms (Facebook and Twitter) affects political participation in protests with respect to strong-tie and weak-tie networks. More specifically, the paper tests two hypotheses using data collected on protests in Chile. The paper proposes that Facebook is best suited for strong-tie networks while Twitter is […]
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