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Mark Granovetter, Stanford sociologist, in 1973 in his seminal essay "The Strength of Weak Ties," made the point that these weak ties that are a part of our networks, these strangers, are actually more effective at diffusing information to us than are our strong ties, the people closest to us.

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But they are also very effective in deflecting our path.

Now to make sure that this was no reaction of the fly to a flash it could see, Susana did a simple but brutally effective experiment.

Torture, rape and ethnic cleansing have become highly effective, if often non-lethal, weapons in civil war.

And of course, if you want people to play by the rules, you still need an effective system of monitoring and enforcement, for as we've discovered, you can trust, but you also need to verify.

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