American playwright, John Guare, wrote a play in 1990 called Six Degrees of Separation. There is a famous quote from the play that became the way people think about Six Degrees:
I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names.
It turns out that, the phenomenon of Six Degrees, also known as Small Worlds, is not only fun but profound. Scientists have studied over the past decades to find out that not only human society but many networks in nature have a property of being connected in this very special way.
Yet the most famous re-incarnation of the phenomenon comes from the pop culture and is known as Kevin Bacon game. Coded by computer science students in University of Virginia,
the Oracle of Bacon lets you pick any Hollywood actor and then see how he/she is linked to Kevin Bacon. Why Kevin Bacon? The irony is that Mr. Bacon is not a particularly famous actor, yet, is connected to every other actor in Hollywood within just a few degrees.
Six Degrees Sticker
So, since we are big fans of science and movies it would be a shame for us to pass up on the opportunity to show you just how things are connected. The Six Degrees sticker reveals the chains of people discovering things through each other on Glue. Here are some of my chains:
You will earn this sticker every time when you or someone else completes the chain of six people. The list of all chains will show up on your six degree sticker, so you will always be able to know just how exactly you discovered this special book, movie or an album.
We hope that you will have fun earning this fun sticker and drop us a link on how you like it.
{ -1 comments }
