Politically engineered discretization errors
Gerrymandering describes the practice of engineering the boundary of political districts in such a way as to give one party (almost invariably the one that draws the districts) an advantage in elections. This has often given rise to highly convoluted district...
Do voluntary public health measures work during a pandemic?
When on March 13 2020 the number of Covid-19 cases and deaths in Europe exceeded the rest of the world (excluding China), the World Health Organization declared Europe as the new epicenter of a worldwide spreading disease it had only declared a pandemic two days earlier. Five days later, …
The most detailed picture yet of biomembrane asymmetry
Living cells and many of their internal organelles are bounded by a membrane composed predominantly of lipids. These are molecules with a water-soluble head region and a water-insoluble tail region. As a result, they form a bilayer structure, with the tail regions facing each other and the head regions facing the water. […]
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