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Sep 14, 2012 · Google has incorporated the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game into its search function. Morning Edition's David Greene goes to the movies and traces the history of the iconic college game.
The game, centred around the "six degrees of separation" theory that any two people are only ever six or less connections apart, involves linking anyone in Hollywood to prolific actor...
Nov 22, 2013 · They all have a Bacon number of 2. The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, a game created early in 1994 by three Albright College students, is a classic problem in graph theory. The object of the game is to find the shortest path between a given actor and Kevin Bacon, where an intermediary connection can only be made between actors who have appeared ...
Mar 8, 2014 · Inspired by “six degrees of separation,” the theory that nobody is more than six relationships away from any other person in the world, the game was dreamed up in 1994 by Brian Turtle and...
May 5, 2009 · Its researchers concluded that any two people are on average apart by 6.6 degrees of separation, meaning that they could be linked by a string of seven or fewer acquaintances. Swine flu...
Jun 27, 2012 · Kevin Bacon has starred in some of the most influential films in cinema history. Ingrained into our popular culture forever, Bacon's films span every genre o...
This is a pop-culture game, whose title is a mondegreen of Six Degrees of Separation, in which it is said that anyone in the entertainment business can be linked through their film roles to the actor Kevin Bacon within six steps. In other words, pick a random actor. Any actor. Now think of someone they've ever been in a movie with.
