The Science of Terrorism

Who would have thought that even terrorism is governed by hidden natural laws?

Read all about it at Slashdot:-

Insurgent Attacks Follow Mathematical Pattern:

"By plotting the distribution of the frequency and size of events, the team found that insurgent wars follow an approximate power law, in which the frequency of attacks decreases with increasing attack size to the power of 2.5. This means that for any insurgent war, an attack with 10 casualties is 316 times more likely to occur than one with 100 casualties (316 is 10 to the power of 2.5)."