I’m just about to leave for the airport to catch my plan to North Carolina for the ScienceOnline 09 conference. (Let’s hope my plane doesn’t hit any geese along the way!)

So I’ll leave you with a quick post on something Matt sent me today.

A postdoc at Harvard Medical School, Sam Arbesman, studies computational sociology: the mathematics behind social interactions. (I wonder if he could model the interactions happening here on NN? hmmm)

He seems quite fascinated by transit maps, as he says they are pretty ways of depicting connections between things. The most famous one I would think is the London tube map.

So Sam has created a similar sort of map for the Solar System Milky Way, found on his website

Makes me want to go do some space travel now!

I’ll be posting about ScienceOnline here over the coming days.