• Forest Fires, Memes, & Covid-19

  • Jun 23 2020
  • Length: 25 mins
  • Podcast

Forest Fires, Memes, & Covid-19

  • Summary

  • Forest fires. Ant colonies. Internet memes.

    On the surface, they have nothing in common. But, according to network scientist Samuel Scarpino, they’re all complex systems that spread. Sam’s job is to crack the rules underlying their spread, and then apply them to epidemics such as Covid-19. 

    Read more about Sam’s work in Steven’s New York Times Magazine article, “How Data Became One of the Most Powerful Tools to Fight an Epidemic”: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/10/magazine/covid-data.html

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