Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

[questindigo]

Once I heard an NPR segment about the “six degrees of separation” concept. Some academic sociologists had decided to test it, at least within the confines of the U.S. They started with the most random folks their study could produce. To their surprise, they could connect folks, often with surprisingly little effort, and if I remember correctly,

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Bears!

[flamencagothica]

One of my students was a high court judge in Spain who also hunts bears (ugh). Who else hunts bears? His boss, the King of Spain who he shakes hands with every year when he's sworn in. So there you go--you're 4 degrees away from the King of Spain and 5 degrees from some poor sad russian bear who was made to drink vodka so that the king could kill him.