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» Your Story Researchers (Duncan Watts and Steve Strogatz) at Cornell University in the late 1990s, using mathematical graph theory, discovered the astonishing power of the "small-worlds phenomenon". This was groundbreaking proof of what had been folklore— that each of us is connected to anyone else on the planet with just a few degrees of separation. |
WHAT’S YOUR SMALL-WORLD STORY? We are all familiar with small-world stories— bumping into someone in an airplane who went to the same school as our father, or meeting someone from our hometown in a pub halfway around the world. These seem like unusual coincidences, but everyone seems to have their own small-world stories. We want to hear yours. Five hundred words or less. • Find out how many handshakes it takes to connect with anyone in the world. |
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