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...attract and introduce” model, which outperformed the previous models by including heritable traits of social networks. This new model is based on two parameters: people’s attractiveness level and their tendency to introduce their friends to one other. “The basic idea is that if people are interconnected, their healths are interconnected, if we really want to understand health, we have to understand society,” Christakis said. The new findings might also have policy implications, according to Christakis. “If things spread in networks, if I get you to behave...
...grim state of the global economy is unlikely to prompt any big decrease in the number of mostly poor people setting out for the promise of foreign shores around the globe. "The world's basic stock of 200 million migrants hasn't really changed, and isn't likely to change," says Jemini Pandya of the Geneva-based International Organization for Migration, citing the estimate for the total number of people living in countries other than their place of birth. "There is a structural need for migrants, and that doesn't go away because of economic problems in the developed world...
...discovered” the universe’s laws or the laws of mathematics were “invented” by mathematicians. Reaching back to the sixth century B.C., Livio uses Pythagoras, Plato, and Archimedes to demonstrate that there is an intimate relationship between the most basic arithmetic and much more complicated and inaccessible abstract logic. Revelations abound, from the logical basis for counting, to the foundation of prime numbers, and the Pythagorean Theorem. But there are an equal number of instances where Livio’s explanations fall short, such as when he discusses knots or how gravity...
...Leukemia Program at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and the Cancer Stem Cell Program for the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Gilliland’s latest work harnessed his earlier findings to explore how drugs could be used to treat leukemia. “His expertise in both basic and translational research will enhance Merck’s efforts to develop innovative and individualized medicines to treat this devastating disease,” said Merck President Peter S. Kim in a statement. Colleagues praised Gilliland’s contributions to oncology at Harvard, and said yesterday that his leadership...
What Royal does see is a Socialist Party whose leading lights - the so-called elephants - are either macho males who secretly view politics as a men-only club or complicit women who do their men's bidding. "Their thinking is basic: I'm male, I'm on the right career path, been to the right schools, have all the abilities, and I'm just the man for the job," Royal says of the party's male leadership that includes Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë and former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius. "It's a very patrimonial and possessive...