People move like predators
From New Orleans, at a meeting of the American Physical Society
Every morning is the same: You get up, shower, and eat breakfast, and you’re ready to go. On a hunt.
If hunting is not in your daily routine, it might as well be, or so it could seem to someone tracking your movements. A new study based on data from cell phone use shows that people’s daily roaming mirrors familiar patterns—universal statistical laws that researchers have observed before in the movements of certain carnivores looking for prey.