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BUSINESS MONDAY: Spotlight on Salisbury Winter Sports Association’s Jumpfest—Defying gravity for 100 years!

In addition to its annual event (taking place February 6-8), the nonprofit organization holds training and other opportunities for aspiring ski jumpers.

Connections: Is terrorism a contagion? What is the antidote?

Could the model for fighting violence be the same as the model for fighting contagion? Can we identify areas where the conditions are ripe for disease/violence to break out? Can we track the spread of violence by tracing the contacts between people in the same way we trace the spread of infection? What makes some immune and others vulnerable?

Connections: Contagion

In 1785, the problem was that inoculation against Small Pox was outlawed in many states including Massachusetts. People who had suffered and survived a ravaging disease now faced prosecution.
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