Groups kicking the habit

Christakis and Fowler find more interesting social aspects in the Framingham cohort, this time in how people stop smoking. The nutshell visualization is here.

Height and the complexities of societal health

`The Height Gap’ ( Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, April 5, 2004): how the average height of a country’s people appears to reflect a greater societal wellbeing. Eat well, grow well.

Corporate contagion

The social network component of the spreading of spreading. (The main article is here.)