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Stephen Downes

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This afternoon I played a number of videos recommended to me or produced by participants in the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge course - they aired on #ds106 radio (I recommend listening to #ds106 radio via the live stream in Winamp or iTunes or Windows media- stream URL: http://208.82.115.69:8010/stream). From this TED talk: "We're all embedded in vast social networks of friends, family, co-workers and more. Nicholas Christakis tracks how a wide variety of traits -- from happiness to obesity -- can spread from person to person, showing how your location in the network might impact your life in ways you don't even know."

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