Six Degrees of Separation Demystified
Veritasium dives into the elegant math behind how everyone’s connected in about six steps. You’ll meet the brains of the small-world model—Watts, Strogatz and Barabási—learn why those “weak ties” and network shortcuts make the world surprisingly tight, and see simulations of disease outbreaks racing through our social webs.
Hubs, Preferential Attachment & Why You Matter
Discover how network hubs form via “the rich get richer” rule (aka preferential attachment), why that fuels viral trends (and pandemics), and even how game theory’s Prisoner’s Dilemma ties in. Spoiler: your personal connections and choices can actually reshape the world’s network.
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