jerry submitted, created time 5 months 1 week (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)

Some of us are homebodies, and some are jet setters. But a new study suggests that people, regardless of travel habits, follow the same general patterns of motion, spending the bulk of their time in a few favorite spots. The conclusions, obtained by tracking thousands of mobile phone users, could help researchers devise more accurate models of disease outbreaks.

Keywords: human behavior cell phones epidemiology public health