From 2002 to 2003, there was a show on The Game Show Network called “Friend or Foe.”  The game was set up in such a way that there were two teams containing two people each.  The team that correctly answered the most trivia questions was the winning team, but they only got to keep their […]

                Actions taken by an individual organism at its cost for the benefit of another are generally defined as altruistic. Examples of altruistic acts include that of vampire bats that regurgitate blood for other group members to feed on, birds that help, protect, and feed the fledglings of other flocks, and Vervet monkeys […]

It is that time of year again: NFL teams are officially allowed to start trading players.  So far we have seen some big trades (Albert Hansworth to the Redskins, Brian Dawkins to the Broncos, etc.), but there have also been players who are a bit frustrated about the fact that they cannot get the money […]

A few weeks ago during our unit on Game Theory, we discussed a phenomenon known as Braess’s paradox:
“Braess’s paradox, credited to the mathematician Dietrich Braess, states that adding extra capacity to a network, when the moving entities selfishly choose their route, can in some cases reduce overall performance.” (Wikipedia)
This leads directly to another […]

     The first day of my micro economics course the professor asked us what we do if we had five acres of grassy land and a herd of sheep. The response was logical; allow the sheep to graze on half of the land so it would not be consumed in one period and be allowed to […]

In his paper on the strength of weak ties, Mark Granovetter discusses how weak ties allow you to access networks that are normally unavailable or unfamiliar to you. A weak tie will be much better connected to different networks than the one you’re in. For this reason, they serve as a gateway to […]

The New York Times article “A Mobile Link for 90 Mutual Friends” starts with the story of Mr. Brian Battjer who met the friend of friend through the online networking site Dodgeball.com. In some sense, Dodgeball is similar to Facebook or Myspace; however, it is different in that it actively links people […]

The internet is an incredibly intricate mesh of nodes with several central nervous centers that deliver media, knowledge, and communications around the world at nearly the speed of light. Complex algorithms are used to determine how to get from node A to node B quickly and efficiently, but this “giant network” is […]

As the news of Circuit City filing for bankruptcy begins to wind down, consumers begin to ponder the aftereffects. Best Buy: Cautious optimism for the future is one such article which analyzes possible changes by talking about his past experiences shopping at his local Best Buy which was across the street from a Circuit […]

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/465911/the_mathematics_of_dating_applying_pg2.html?cat=41http://dickinson.edu/dickinsonian/detail.cfm?1862Ever since they were little, girls have dreamt of finding Mr. Right, with the image of him resembling any one of the many Disney princes. Although much of this silly and irrelevant, without knowing it these young girls have precisely figured out the most important thing about love and dating…it’s all a game! In class […]