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There are some great books on this topic:
Duncan Watts, Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Linkds: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else
And here are articles I referred to:
Milgram's small world experiment: http://www.uvm.edu/~pdodds/files/papers/others/1969/travers1969.pdf
http://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs224w-readings/milgram67smallworld.pdf
Granovetter, Strength of Weak Ties:
https://sociology.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/publications/the_strength_of_weak_ties_and_exch_w-gans.pdf)
Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Are all people on Earth really connected through just six steps?
Check out “Six Degrees of Everything” Tuesdays @ 9:30/8:30c on truTV #SixDegrees: https://goo.gl/2GFcUj
SEND ME AN EMAIL:
1. Do not send it directly to me unless you know me.
2. Send the email to someone you have met IN PERSON and know on a first name basis AND THEY KNOW YOU.
3. Make the subject line ‘Six Degrees of Veritasium’
4. Explain that you’re trying to get this email to me and ask them to forward it on to me (only if they know me IRL) or someone they know who might know me.
5. If your email reaches me by Sept. 1, 2015 I will email you back and ask for your address so I can send you a postcard.
Animations in this video by The Lyosacks: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLyosacks
There are some great books on this topic:
Duncan Watts, Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Linkds: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else
And here are articles I referred to:
Milgram’s small world experiment: http://www.uvm.edu/~pdodds/files/papers/others/1969/travers1969.pdf
http://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs224w-readings/milgram67smallworld.pdf
Granovetter, Strength of Weak Ties:
https://sociology.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/publications/the_strength_of_weak_ties_and_exch_w-gans.pdf
