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Constable Colgan's Connectoscope Stevyn Colgan

Constable Colgan's Connectoscope By Stevyn Colgan

Constable Colgan's Connectoscope by Stevyn Colgan


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For many years we've known about Six Degrees of Separation: the idea that every person on the planet can be linked by a chain of just six individuals. Now, former Scotland Yard criminal intelligence officer Stevyn Colgan has designed a paper-based wireless device to do the same thing with facts - a kind of Six Degrees of Information.

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Constable Colgan's Connectoscope: How One Thing Leads to Another by Stevyn Colgan

For many years we've known about Six Degrees of Separation: the idea that every person on the planet can be linked by a chain of just six individuals. Now, former Scotland Yard criminal intelligence officer Stevyn Colgan has designed a paper-based wireless device to do the same thing with facts - a kind of Six Degrees of Information. Called the Connectoscope, it will teach you, among many other things, what humans taste like to robots, why there were bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover, how a tree became the New York Stock Exchange, why Bob the Builder has more fingers In Japan than in the UK, who the patron saint of medical records is, and how to make Superman gay. Colgan sets out to prove that everything can be connected. As this dizzyingly fact-filled book shows, the fun lies in figuring out how.

About Stevyn Colgan

Stevyn Colgan was PC Colgan of the Metropolitan Police for 30 years, working in criminal intelligence in the 'problem-solving' squad. Now he is a writer, artist, songwriter, and researcher for the BBC TV series QI. His previous book Joined-Up Thinking was published in 2008. He lives in High Wycombe.

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GOR011343734
9781908717832
1908717831
Constable Colgan's Connectoscope: How One Thing Leads to Another by Stevyn Colgan
Used - Like New
Paperback
Unbound
2013-10-10
224
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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