http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/pursuit-of-happiness/2009/01/23/1232471590768.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2
Above is a link to the article, The Pursuit Of Happiness, published in January in The Sydney Herald. This article explains how many activities– happiness, sadness, smoking or drinking habits, and preferences or tastes— are heavily influenced by our social networks. One study found that a person’s chance at happiness increases the more […]

Welcome to the course blog for INFO 2040. This is a course which will cover how the social, technological, and natural worlds are connected, and how the study of networks sheds light on these connections.
Topics include: how opinions, fads, and political movements spread through society; the robustness and fragility of food webs and financial markets; […]