Centuries of accumulated knowledge on infectious disease spread have been formalized into mathematical models. These models provide us with possible scenarios of the disease progression. Models are not only tools for scientist but also for policy makers who use them to decide which scenario to pursue, pondering on expected negative social and economic consequences of each of them.
We developed indoor and interactive educational games that explain some basic concepts behind this mathematics. The games are suitable for elementary school kids and can be used in classrooms, but everyone can find them useful for figuring out how epidemics work. You can find the games on the pages of our Pixelibris project:
When 17 years ago astronomers for the first time pointed a 1000 frames per second camera to the sky to look at meteors, known as shooting stars, they detected a surprising new phenomenon. The bright meteor of a few meters in size was engulfed in a glowing halo of hundreds of meters in size. There has been no convincing explanation for this halo, until now
