Constable Colgan's Connectoscope

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<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Colgan sets out to prove that everything can be connected. As this dizzyingly fact-filled book shows, the fun lies in figuring out how.</p>

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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<i>Joined-Up Thinking</i>&#xa0;was published in 2008. He lives in High Wycombe.

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