Instead, people are strongly connected to a relatively small group of neighbors and loosely connected to much more distant people. (technologyreview.com)
In accepting art that is reduced to color, line, and form, he argued, we are able to appreciate «many kinds of old art and the arts of distant peoples — primitive, historic, colonial, Asiatic and African, as well as European — arts which had not been accessible in spirit before because it was thought that true art had to show a degree of conformity to nature and of mastery of representation which had developed for the most part in the West.» (artnews.com)
A path linking the two most distant people in the population requires only 37 steps from person to person, dot to dot. (discovermagazine.com)