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January 26, 2006

Web Game Helps Predict Spread of Epidemics

An anonymous reader writes "Using data from the web game wheresgeorge.com, which traces the travels of dollar bills, scientists have unveiled statistical laws of human travel and developed a mathematical description that can be used to model the spread of infectious disease."

Via Slashdot

Originally posted by samzenpus from Slashdot, ReBlogged by cat on Jan 26, 2006 at 12:31 PM