A plague is not just a general term for a really bad epidemic. What it have specific referencing to, like it does to your skin or your or other parts of our other organ well, plague, i would say, is the broader category to a respiratory pandemic. And e one thing they all have in common is that they are judgments from god. So so plagues are not new to the human condition,. They're just new to us.
How do diseases and information spread? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice discover the history of pandemics, how social networks impact spread, and the hidden math behind it with sociologist Nicholas Christakis.
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