http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2006/07/mast-year-network-failure-and-information-cascades Ben Hyde Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:07:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2006/07/mast-year-network-failure-and-information-cascades#comment-122975 Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm » Blog Archive » Bamboo Mast Year Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:10:11 +0000 http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2006/07/mast-year-network-failure-and-information-cascades/#comment-122975 [...] Facinating article about a mast year in bamboo.  Rat’s thrive and the following year people starve. … Mizoram and Manipur … rats  … army … teach … eradicate … flowering … bamboo … increase fertility rates … population explosion … crops … severe famines … the mautam in 1958-59 … triggered an insurgency … redrawing of boundaries…. Bamboo Flowering and Famine Control Schemes … rat tail … bounty … 200,000 rat tails… registering more tails… hunger currently prevail … grain production falling by 87% …collapse of the administrative machinery … refugee flows … worst is still to come…. [...] [...] Facinating article about a mast year in bamboo.  Rat’s thrive and the following year people starve. … Mizoram and Manipur … rats  … army … teach … eradicate … flowering … bamboo … increase fertility rates … population explosion … crops … severe famines … the mautam in 1958-59 … triggered an insurgency … redrawing of boundaries…. Bamboo Flowering and Famine Control Schemes … rat tail … bounty … 200,000 rat tails… registering more tails… hunger currently prevail … grain production falling by 87% …collapse of the administrative machinery … refugee flows … worst is still to come…. [...]

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