In 1929, Frigyes Karinthy wrote a short story suggesting that everyone is connected to everyone else by six or seven degrees of separation. In 1967, the Harvard social psychologist Stanley Milgram, inspired by the story, set out to test the idea. He sent packages with folders of instructions to 160 random people living in Omaha, […]
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It’s a Small World after all
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