Public health officials need to be able to predict how outbreaks like Ebola spread and grow. But that’s not so easy. Mainly because it requires knowing how real people will react. Human behavior ain’t so easy to plug into a computer model. But, then there was this bizarre and totally accidental video game incident that made real life disease outbreak modeling smarter. The story of “corrupted blood” in World of Warcraft is still inspiring epidemiologists. (Featuring Professor Nina Fefferman, department of Ecology, Evolution, & Natural Resources)
Finding Fun in the Water: Fossil Hunting in NJ [audio]
Behind the manicured lawns and across from the local elementary school, a brook in Monmouth County offers up Cretaceous Period fossil hunting. With just a colander in hand, visitors can find teeth from sharks that once swam the ocean that covered all o…