An ex-Harvard professor has called trans rights a “social contagion”. Prof Jimmy Doyle, 61, resigned from his role as a ...

This phenomenon, known as complex contagion, highlights how socially learned behaviors take time to embed. Consider a familiar scenario: the return of baggy jeans to the fashion zeitgeist. For many ...

The R0 measure indicates how an infection will spread in a population. If it’s greater than one (as seen above), the outcome is disease spread. An R0 of one means the level of people being infected ...

The 2011 movie “Contagion” follows the worldwide pandemic of a virus from Asia that kills millions. Compared to the Wuhan coronavirus, the virus in the movie is highly transmissible and highly ...

In an interview with BuzzFeed News, a scientific advisor on Steven Soderbergh's Contagion revealed that people should have taken the 2011 film "much more seriously." Said Tracey McNamara, "It ...

Suicide contagion accounts for at least 5 percent of youth suicides each year, according to Madeyln Gould, professor of epidemiology and psychiatry at Columbia University, who specializes in ...