Social Dimension  Collective Nouns for Facts  With my book about
facts and knowledge coming out soon, it might be worth reviewing
possible words for collective nouns for facts.  We all know
about collective nouns – those words for groups of things of a
single kind. From a pride of lions and a gaggle of geese, to a
fixie of hipsters, these terms conjure up wonderful imagery and
fill gaps in our lexicon. So, let’s say you have a bunch of
facts; what do you call this? While it’s unclear what to say for
a collection of substantive bits of information (though some use
the term miscellany of facts), for small and relatively
unimportant facts, the choice is clear: a pursuit of trivia.
Top image:yuheitomi/Flickr/CC  Finding the Sources of Epidemics
Network science started with trying to understand the structure
of large-scale complex networks, from social connections to the
makeup of protein interactions. It then proceeded to explore the
behavior of processes that occur on top of networks. And one of
the most impor