Saved on this device

Follow your curiosity

What discovery has been shared with you?

FACTREE gives you something interesting to discover every day — and something worth talking about together.

Start with one fact. Explore it, go deeper, then follow whichever branch catches your imagination.

Choose subjects for a surprise

Exploring any topic

Begin your discovery

Your next discovery is one click away.

Choose one or more subjects above, or leave Any Topic selected and let curiosity decide.

Psychology

Agent-Based Modeling of Urban Segregation Dynamics

Quick fact

In the classic Schelling model, even when residents are perfectly content to live in neighborhoods where up to 70% of their neighbors are of a different group, the outcome is still a city with striking segregation.

Why this is interesting

Have you ever wondered why so many cities are deeply divided by race or income, even when most people say they'd be happy to live in diverse neighborhoods? What if the culprit isn't hatred, but a surprising side effect of individual preferences?