The old aphorism about six degrees of separation may not apply any more, Facebook research Lars Backstrom reported.
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The idea that we might get six degrees, or seven, from a doubling.
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And mostly you go to soak up that rare "Six Degrees of Separation" from reality you can't find anywhere else.
Six Degrees uses published scientific data and interviews with leading researchers to illustrate the changes we could witness in a warmer world.
The girl had a body temperature of sixty-six degrees, and no pulse.
"SportsClix" can be played in fantasy games on a plastic board or swapped like cards, each figure having one of six degrees of rarity.
Perhaps the most alarming aspect of "Six Degrees" is the tight constraints in both time and temperature within which mankind must act to avoid such apocalyptic nightmares.
Mark Lynas' Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet has already been turned into a TV programme and is now almost certain to experience a jump in sales.
Once a patient's heartbeat is restored, emergency-room doctors, cardiologists and rescue squads are quickly applying ice and other coolants to moderately lower a patient's body temperature by about six degrees.
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By "plausible, " I am not talking about six degrees of separation, or that al Qaeda reads in the paper about an attack it had nothing to do with and starts the Allahu Akbar!
And the fact is that pretty much all of us are indeed within two or so degrees of separation with such a super connected person: thus the only six degrees of separation between any two people.
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The IPCC Panel's near-consensus was that human activity is having some discernible impact on climate, and that by 2100, a warming earth could result in more frequent storms and droughts, sea level rise of up to three feet, and up to six degrees F. in temperature rise.
"Six Degrees", by leading environmental campaigner Mark Lynas, sounds a red alert for the health of the planet, charting degree-by-degree the likely consequences of rising temperatures up to the worst-case scenario 5.8 degrees Celsius (10 degrees Fahrenheit) rise envisaged by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2001 report.
King's College London and the University of Southampton both offer six-year degrees (a year longer than normal) to about one in ten of their medical students.
All six reactors have experienced differing degrees of problems since the quake and the ensuing tsunami.
Snowfall blanketed an area from eastern Pennsylvania to Maine, with overnight lows under 20 degrees as governors in six states declared states of emergency.
This snapshot, taken before many young people have settled into their intended careers, shows what type of jobs graduates are doing six months after leaving their first degrees.
Nearly six out of 10 adults with advanced degrees in their mid-20s are women.
"Remember, last year at this time it was 80 degrees and Phil had predicted six more weeks of winter, " Deeley said.
He arrived in the United States in 2003, and spent six years completing his undergraduate and graduate degrees and traveling all around the country.
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To give ourselves a more than 50% chance of avoiding 2 degrees (Celsius) will require a six-fold improvement in our rate of decarbonisation.
To get their degrees, MBA students must listen to six online lectures on beef production and do homework assignments such as writing a pro-beef letter to the local paper.
Iranian law recognises five different degrees of espionage, which carry penalties that range from six months in prison to execution.
The ship must stay perfectly still while drilling and does so using six thrusters with 15-foot-diameter propellers that can rotate 360 degrees.
The forbidding-looking wheels, made by Timken, do away with tire and rim, instead moving on six pairs of polyurethane-covered steel rollers, each angled at 45 degrees to the wheel itself.
Compared with the sluggish air on Earth, the Martian atmosphere is in constant motion: between the surface and six feet above it, temperatures can vary by as much as sixty degrees.
In the U.K., the number of Bachelor of Science degrees in alternative medicine has grown over the past decade, and six institutions actually offer a degree in homeopathy.
The Embrace bag contains a pouch filled with a phase-change material that melts when heated and maintains a consistent 37 degrees Celsius as as the wax hardens over the next four to six hours.
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