Facebook Monitoring
This article touches on Facebook’s social media content posted and how some of the content is considered to be toxic. These noxious posts revolve from extreme violence, pornography, unpleasant images, and even drug distribution related messages. At first, Facebook hired a third party company which had thousands of employees monitoring every post being published. However, […]
The American Healthcare System as an Exercise in Game Theory
The US healthcare system, especially when compared to other countries, is extremely complex, expensive, and, quite honestly, confusing. The ways in which Americans receive and pay for healthcare vary, including employer-based private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Affairs, and supplemental out-of-pocket costs, not to mention the millions of people who cannot even afford healthcare. Despite the […]
Auction of Public Goods
Public goods are defined as goods that are non-excludable and non-rivalrous. Non-excludable good means that its use by one person does not prevent other people from also using it. Non-rivalrous good is good that can be supplied to many people without additional cost; i.e., the good is always available regardless of people’s consumption. An example […]
A Pandemic Dilemma
This article by the Stanford Daily perfectly shows how game theory and the prisoner’s dilemma are being played out in real life on multiple scales. It paints a great picture of our current situation and how we need to cooperate instead of making decisions for our own personal interests. In most situations, there is no […]
The Paradoxical Continued Spread of a Pandemic
If you’re a current Cornell student, you’re painfully aware of the ongoing and continuously prevalent COVID-19 variant. All students, vaccinated or not, must continue to wear masks indoors, get tested weekly, and of course, quarantine if tested positive for the deadly virus. Yet, thinking of this period of time 6 months ago, the general consensus […]
Tracked: How Does Netflix Know What You Like?
Have you ever wondered how streaming platforms seem to have a perfect sense of what you might like to watch next after you’ve finished a movie or a show? While in today’s world we are well aware that our online activity is being tracked, we may not realize the extent to which our viewing preferences […]
Existence of Triadic Closure in Animal Social Networks
While triadic closure has been greatly studied throughout human physical and social media networks, it is not as well known within the animal kingdom. Triadic closure is the formation of a connection between two endpoints (or, in this case, animals) due to the sharing of a mutual connection. The stronger the connections with the original mutual […]
Bringing Back Balance to Afghanistan
As most of us have seen, there has been high instability in Afghanistan after the United States withdrew its military forces. This report by Elizabeth Threlkeld and Grace Easterly is sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace and looks at ways Afghanistan can reach stability again after the United States withdrawal. The article talks […]
YouTuber Collaborations and STCP
YouTube originally started as a way to upload home videos. However, as time has passed, there have been many YouTube content creators with a large following in the millions. The individual, as well as the content, produces fanbases, and because of this, some creators thought it would be a good idea to merge some of […]
Prisoner’s Dilemma during COVID -19
One of the most exciting thought experiments in philosophy is the prisoner’s dilemma as we have seen in the course. It is a situation in which “two or more players interact where their preferences have a common and reasonable structure, and the action that benefits each player does not benefit the group” (Downham 301). A […]
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