Tag Archives: public health

I think my head is full of ants

Posted on 11 Jan 08 by Phi

As many of my students can attest, I’ve always loved emergent behavior where you have a whole bunch of “stupid” agents working with simple rules, but the end result is amazingly complex and wondrous. There are termites, for example, that … Continue reading →

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A serious case of misplaced priorities

Posted on 3 Dec 07 by Phi

Alert! One of our eagle-eyed readers (Lambo) pointed out in the comments that the details of this chart are almost certainly broken, and that the PCRM may not be quite the upstanding source that we might have hoped for. I … Continue reading →

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