This film is a must see in my opinion.
You can scrape most of it together on You Tube or you can watch the whole lot at once here -
How Kevin Bacon Cured Cancer
And if you have not seen the movie that started it all
Six Degrees of Separation, which was based on the play that started it all, I would encourage you to rent a copy, or see the play ... or at least read up about the theory of Six Degrees
before watching How Kevin Bacon Cured Cancer.
Six Degrees of Separation
Probably not a good example to use W as someone you want to be connected to. |
Turning 6 Degrees Down to 2 Degrees
have no desire to, 6 degrees or otherwise, connect myself to Bush thru any means. On the other hand, I get the 6 degrees. It's really more like 2 or 3 degrees. Eerie.
ReplyDeleteOften, yes, it's less than 6 degrees as Trish suggests.
ReplyDeleteNow an absolutely silly question. Do you by any chance know Ian Parkin?
No,but I could probably get to him within six moves.
ReplyDeleteI think that I may have seen his brother's name though on the Monopoly board.
He's not related by any CHANCE to
FREE PARKIN ?-)
But seriously Mike,take a look at the doco
ReplyDelete"How Kevin Bacon Cured Cancer" if you get some free time,
it has very serious implications for all sorts of things about the way nature works.
It's not just a silly who knows who game...although that's how it started out.
You can watch it for free on the net here -
http://www.smh.com.au/tv/science/connected-how-kevin-bacon-cured-cancer-2733474.html
Which is one of the links embedded in the above post if you don't want to copy and paste that link into your browser.
You won't be sorry.
It's mind-blowing really.