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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.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/nicholas_christakis_the_hidden_influence_of...
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Connected is the new book by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ConnectedtheBook
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Official site for Connected, the new book about the surprising power of our social networks in everyday life by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler
http://www.connectedthebook.com/
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“Your happiness depends not just on your choices and actions, but also on the choices and actions of people you don’t even know who are one, two and three degrees removed from you,” said Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis, a physician and social scientist at Harvard Medical School and an author of the study, to be published Friday in BMJ, a British journal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/health/05happy-web.html
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It's not only germs that can be contagious. Christakis, who has both a medical degree and a Ph.D. in sociology, has studied how individuals' social networks influence whether they are happy or sad -- and even skinny or fat. In their 2009 book Connected, Christakis and co-author James Fowler expanded the known instances of "network contagion" by identifying examples in everything from back pain to political beliefs. The idea that having fat friends could be contagious made headlines for Christakis, but his longer-lasting impact will come when his revolutionary understanding about social networks starts being applied to real-world crises.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/30/the_fp_top_100_global_thinke...
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Social scientists used to have a straightforward, if tongue-in-cheek, answer to the question of how to become happy: Surround yourself with people who are uglier, poorer and shorter than you are...
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1894410_1893209_18...
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Nicholas A. Christakis (born May 7, 1962) is an American physician and social scientist known for his research on social networks and on the socioeconomic and biosocial determinants of behavior, health, and longevity. He is a Professor of Medical Sociology in the Department of Health Care Policy and a Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and an Attending Physician at the Harvard-affiliated Mt. Auburn Hospital.[1][2]
In 2009, Christakis and his wife, Erika Christakis, were appointed Co-Masters of Pforzheimer House, one of Harvard's twelve residential houses.[3] At Harvard, Christakis is also known for his popular undergraduate lecture class "Life and Death in the USA" which is podcast publicly, and for attracting a diverse group of faculty and students from across the University's departments and professional schools into his research group.
In 2009 and again in 2010, Christakis was named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top global thinkers.[4] In 2009, he was named to the Time 100, Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_A._Christakis
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This is the site of Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, who is an internist and social scientist who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care, and longevity. He is a Professor at Harvard and an Attending Physician at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Here you will find information related to his work on health and social networks, the health benefits of marriage and the consequences of spousal illness and widowhood, the effects of neighborhoods on people's health, the biodemographic determinants of longevity, and the genetic bases for human behaviors.
http://christakis.med.harvard.edu/
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A new decade. An ongoing global financial crisis. It's a time to regroup, re-evaluate -- and then to dream. Dream big. Because the world of ideas has never mattered more. For TED2010 we've assembled a lineup of speakers whose ideas and ingenuity will thrill, enlighten and inspire. It's What the World Needs Now ...
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Session 4: Reason. Thursday, February 11, 2010, 8:30-10:15. Speakers: Michael Specter (writer), Sam Harris (neuroscientist and philosopher), Nicholas Christakis (physician, sociologist), and Elizabeth Pisani (epidemiologist).
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New Yorker Staff Writer Covering Science, Technology, and Public Health Issues; Author.
#TED #TED2010 #People #Author #Writer #Health
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Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction.
Mr. Harris' writing has been published in over fifteen languages. He and his work have been discussed in Newsweek, TIME, The New York Times, Scientific American, Nature, Rolling Stone...
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Elizabeth Pisani (born 1964) is a journalist and epidemiologist best known for her work on HIV/AIDS, in particular for her controversial book The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of #AIDS.
#TED #TED2010 #People #Journalist #Epidemiologist
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