Word: connectedness
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Jurors watched the video from a vast screen in the middle of the room. Reporters and spectators watched on a separate television. And, it appeared, Kelly watched from a flat-screen monitor connected to his defense attorney's table. In the video's opening scene, a man in red pants...
It's no surprise that you're more likely to light up if your close friends do. But Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School and James Fowler at University of California San Diego report that quitting smoking may be contagious as well. Even people who don't necessarily know each...
Back in 1971, when the Framingham study began, smokers and nonsmokers were equally likely to be at the center of their social-relationship "nodes." By 2000, however, nonsmokers not only outnumbered the smokers, in all age groups, but they had pushed smokers to the edges of any networks they belonged...
Such ripple effects among social groups may seem pretty obvious - people naturally look to their friends to figure out what behaviors are socially acceptable - but Christakis notes that the scope and size of the networks in which these effects operate is much larger than previously thought. His research, for example...
Despite issuing them visas, the Moscow authorities were not about to give some 42,000 British soccer fans - a group who have, rightly or wrongly, earned a questionable record for maintaining public order - the keys to the city. Some some 15,000 policemen were deployed to maintain crowd control, while...