This past weekend we held the annual Patterson School Crisis Simulation. This year's topic was cyber-warfare; I have a long writeup at Information Dissemination, and a shorter writeup at the Diplomat: Coincidentally, my institution (the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce) ran a simulation last...
simulations of reality
One of the upsides of my job is the virtually unfettered ability to conscript policy-oriented graduate students into goofy projects based on my idiosyncratic interests. In the past, of course,.
The Patterson School just finished a negotiation exercise based on the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute. Set ten years in the future, the simulation involves teams representing Russia, the United States, Iran, Turkey,.
Via B&P, if the new Red Dawn doesn't have a plot substantially similar to this, I'm going to cry: Americans, thoroughly disgusted with the socialistic programs that have been thrust upon them over the last few years, vote out seventeen of the nineteen Democrats in...
My friend Steve is an atmospheric scientist and a hardcore baseball fan. He's devised an ingenious simulation, in which he predicts the probable outcome of the remainder of a baseball.