Do Social Networks Shape Our Lives ?

.. and if so, how ?

Here’s what looks like an interesting new (at least to me) book.

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Connected – The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives

Renowned scientists Christakis and Fowler present compelling evidence for our profound influence on one another’s tastes, health, wealth, happiness, beliefs, even weight, as they explain how social networks form and how they operate.


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Jo Jordan

It ends well- we can see beyond the people we see everyday. All the way through though, I kept thinking of the phrase made popular by SA/Cambridge physicist. The question his primary school maths teacher from Scotland/Tanzania kept asking him: X, but what happened before the big bang?

We all want to know the source of change not the source of stasis?

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