{"id":855,"date":"2003-03-03T23:26:05","date_gmt":"2003-03-04T07:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=855"},"modified":"2004-10-24T16:29:30","modified_gmt":"2004-10-25T00:29:30","slug":"truth-has-more-strangers-than-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=855","title":{"rendered":"truth has more strangers than fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nsu\/020218\/020218-17.html\">Six degrees of Captain America<\/a>: some scientists at the University of the Baleares &#8220;studied the statistical properties of the network of 6,486 characters in the 12,942 Marvel comic books&#8221; since 1961.  They found that the network of acquaintance among Marvel characters is &#8220;very weakly clustered &#8211; about 1.5 times more than a random network. Clustering in real networks is typically ten (or more) times greater than in random webs.&#8221;  (Naturally, I found the link at <a href=http:\/\/pffft.net\/longbox\/>a comic strip site<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six degrees of Captain America: some scientists at the University of the Baleares &#8220;studied the statistical properties of the network of 6,486 characters in the 12,942 Marvel comic books&#8221; since 1961. They found that the network of acquaintance among Marvel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=855\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}