Rules of ContagionAdam Kucharski
Rules of Contagion
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I read through the article, twice, before checking the byline. I was suprised to see her name. Though I think the phenomena are closely related. Adam Kucharski's new book, The Rules of Contagion looks like it will be an interesting addition to the genre as well: https://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-events/2020/ap...
on “Preparing for Coronavirus to Strike the U.S.” ↗…increasing at about 100x, though that likely indicates increased monitoring and detection of previously cryptic (undetected) cases, not the actual ground-truth growth rate. Adam Kucharski, author of The Rules of Contagion offers a similar logic. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/health/coronavirus-deaths... His book (not yet available in the US): https://www.worldcat.org/title/rules-of-contagion-why-things... I'd…
on “San Francisco bans public events holding more than 1,000 people” ↗…3. I highly recommend Kyle Harper's The Fates of Rome, which explores this for the Roman empire and its unprecedented urbanisations and wide-ranging commerce, including to China. Adam Kucharski's The Rules of Contagion, forthcoming in the US, published 2020 in the UK, looks at similar concepts.
on “Wealthy Buyers Reportedly in “Mad Rush” to Leave San Francisco” ↗…bookshelf for over 2 decades, I’ve started reading it in earnest. I also have on my read and reread pile: The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson Spillover by David Quammen The Great Influenza by John Barry The Rules of Contagion by Adam Kucharski The Mathematics Behind Biological Invasions by Lewis, Petrovskii, Potts The Plague by Albert Camus A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
on “Ask HN: Any book recommendations in the time of a pandemic?” ↗