{"id":5041,"date":"2013-03-28T16:39:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T22:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5041"},"modified":"2013-03-28T16:39:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T22:39:11","slug":"a-new-map-of-the-u-s-created-by-how-our-dollar-bills-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5041","title":{"rendered":"A New Map Of The U.S., Created By How Our Dollar Bills Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/1681677\/a-new-map-of-the-us-created-by-how-our-dollar-bills-move#2\">Stan Alcorn<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>To theoretical physicist Dirk Brockmann, the borders of the United States are out of date.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some are kind of arbitrary like New Mexico, Arizona: They\u2019re just kind of drawn on the map,&#8221; says Brockmann. &#8220;Often, they no longer correlate with our behavior.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, they no longer correlate with how we move.<\/p>\n<p>Brockmann was doing research on human mobility in 2005, and struggling to find useful sources of data, when on the way back from a conference in Canada, he stopped by the home of his old friend Dennis Derryberry in the green mountains of Vermont. Over a beer on the porch, he told Derryberry about his research. Derryberry asked: &#8220;Do you know about WheresGeorge.com?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can think of WheresGeorge.com as a primitive FourSquare for $1 bills. &#8220;Georgers&#8221;&#8211;as users call themselves&#8211;&#8220;check in&#8221; their bills by entering the zip codes and serial numbers, then write or stamp &#8220;wheresgeorge.com&#8221; on the bill. If someone finds the bill and enters it again, they get a &#8220;hit.&#8221; The top Georger&#8211;an ammunition dealer who goes by the handle Wattsburg Gary&#8211;has entered more than 2 million bills and has nearly half a million hits.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stan Alcorn: To theoretical physicist Dirk Brockmann, the borders of the United States are out of date. &#8220;Some are kind of arbitrary like New Mexico, Arizona: They\u2019re just kind of drawn on the map,&#8221; says Brockmann. &#8220;Often, they no longer correlate with our behavior.&#8221; Specifically, they no longer correlate with how we move. Brockmann was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}