Bursts: the hidden pattern behind everything we do, from your e-mail to bloody crusades/

Main Author: Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y.: A Plume Book, 2011
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Table of Contents:
  • The best bodyguard in the business
  • A pope is elected in Rome
  • The mystery of random motion
  • Duel in Belgrade
  • The future is not yet searchable
  • Bloody prophecy
  • Prediction or prophecy
  • A crusade at last
  • Violence, random and otherwise
  • An unforeseen massacre
  • Deadly quarrels and power laws
  • The Nagylak Battle
  • The origin of bursts
  • Accidents don't happen to crucifixes
  • The man who taught himself to swim by reading
  • An investigation
  • Trailing the albatross
  • "Villain!"
  • The patterns of human mobility
  • Revolution now
  • Predictably unpredictable
  • A diversion in Transylvania
  • The truth about LifeLinear
  • Szekler against Szekler
  • Feeling sick is not a priority
  • The final battles
  • The third ear
  • Flesh and blood.