Science shows it’s a small world after all—and nature’s networks follow a similar pattern.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Writer, Producer, and Narrator
Mark Zastrow
Music by
Mark Zastrow
Editorial Help from
Anna Rothschild
Original Footage
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MEDIA CREDITS
Mississippi River watershed
National Park Service
Diffusion tensor images
Human Connectome Project, NIH, Massachusetts General Hospital, Meredith Reid (University of Alabama–Birmingham)
Neurons, In Vitro Color!
Flickr /thelunch_box (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Small world neural network
based on figure from van den Heuvel and Sporns (2011) / The Journal of Neuroscience 31(44):15775–15786
Autism spectrum disorder networks
Barttfeld et al. (2011) / Neuropsychologia 49 (2011) 254–263
The Formation of Stars and Brown Dwarfs and the Truncation of Protoplanetary Discs in a Star Cluster
Matthew R. Bate, Ian A. Bonnell, and Volker Bromm, UK Astrophysical Fluids Facility
Floral Art
Flickr / Louise Docker (CC BY 2.0)
Dark matter filaments
Ralf Kaehler, Oliver Hahn and Tom Abel, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (Stanford)
Millennium Simulation flythroughs
Springel et al. (2005)
IMAGE
(main image: small world network)
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