Social Networks Are Like the Eye - Nicholas Christakis I

SOCIAL NETWORKS ARE LIKE THE EYE A Talk with Nicholas A. Christakis It is customary to think about fashions in things like clothes or music as spreading in a social network. But it turns out that all kinds of things, many of them quite unexpected, can flow through social networks, and this process obeys certain rules we are seeking to discover. We've been investigating the spread of obesity through a network, the spread of smoking cessation through a network, the spread of happiness through a network, the spread of loneliness through a network, the spread of altruism through a network. And we have been thinking about these kinds of things while also keeping an eye on the fact that networks do not just arise from nothing or for nothing. Very interesting rules determine their structure. More at www.ConnectedtheBook.com.

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Proverbs 10:14 (Whole Chapter)

Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

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if you want to be wise, the be with a wise council.

This is an old thought in the bible.

If you want to be a fool, take foolish council.

Proverbs 9:6 (Whole Chapter)

Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Proverbs 10:1 (Whole Chapter)

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

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