What is six degrees of separation?

Have you ever wondered how you might be connected to a baker in Peru or a fisherman in Japan? It sounds like magic, but it is actually math! In 1929, a Hungarian writer named Frigyes Karinthy came up with a wild idea: that every single person on Earth is connected by just a few invisible handshakes! Decades later in 1967, an American scientist named Stanley Milgram decided to test this theory in real life. He asked people in the middle of the United States to mail folders to a specific stockbroker in Boston, but they could only pass the mail to someone they knew personally! Believe it or not, the folders that successfully made it there took an average of only five or six steps! This incredible pattern is called a Small-World Network, and it explains how funny jokes, catchy songs, and even the common cold spread so incredibly fast. Join Mira and Finn on this mind-expanding episode as they uncover the hidden web that links the entire world together! You will never look at a crowd of strangers the same way again!