http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/index.php/2008/07/01/for-the-horde/ Sliding down the banisters of the ivory tower. Fri, 18 May 2012 05:49:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/index.php/2008/07/01/for-the-horde/#comment-680 Leah Libresco Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:47:01 +0000 http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/?p=130#comment-680 Actually, epidemiologists are finding the Blood Plague from WoW really helpful in modeling how people actually respond to epidemics. Modeling transmission rates is a lot easier than guessing how many people will flee, hunker down, or loot to gain XP. I keep clipping articles on this subject, if you'd like to see any when I get back to school. Sadly, I don't know much about WoW beside the epidemiology application, all my RPing is tabletop based. Actually, epidemiologists are finding the Blood Plague from WoW really helpful in modeling how people actually respond to epidemics. Modeling transmission rates is a lot easier than guessing how many people will flee, hunker down, or loot to gain XP. I keep clipping articles on this subject, if you’d like to see any when I get back to school. Sadly, I don’t know much about WoW beside the epidemiology application, all my RPing is tabletop based.

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