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The Friend You Both Know Is Usually One of the Best-Connected People Around
You get talking to two people you have never met before, and within a few minutes the three of you discover you all know the same person. The ordinary reaction is that the world is small. A paper…
By Oli Kotyk6 days ago3 min read
Environment
How a Hot Year or a Volcano Can Reset the Climate's Political Clock
The physics of climate change runs on decades and centuries. Politics runs on the last hot summer. A new modeling study asks what happens when you wire the two together and let the short clock start…
By Oli Kotyk1w ago3 min read