Kevin Bacon Meets The Sharks of the Caribbean

The Loom
By Carl Zimmer
Jan 26, 2010 3:01 AMNov 19, 2019 8:44 PM

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If you've never played Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, take a trip to the Oracle of Bacon, where you can see how far any actor is from Bacon in the Hollywood movie network. And once you've played that game, check out my new article at Yale Environment 360 to see how ecosystems are a lot like Hollywood, at least when it comes to networking. For more on ecological network theory, check out Jordi Bascompte's web site.

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