Something Strange Happens When You Trace How Connected We Are unpacks the math behind “six degrees of separation,” showing how a few random shortcuts turn a rigid network into a small-world one. You’ll explore Duncan Watts’ small-world model, Strogatz’s charming storytelling, Barabási’s hub theory, and see how weak ties and preferential attachment make some nodes super-connectors. Plus, there are interactive sims for disease spread and network growth to play with.
Along the way we get book recs, links to running the demos yourself, shoutouts to all the researchers who made this possible—and even a detour into the Prisoner’s Dilemma—all to highlight how our everyday connections really do reshape the global web.
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