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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Scale-Free Networks

Some networks are very easy to break down but others are robust kind of like fabrics like the the netting that you see on like a wedding veil. A scale-free network comes across like a piece of of ripstop or Gore-Tex it seems unbreakable but if you know about the properties of the fiber you can find ways to break it. There's some gene editing networks in animals that work the same way so scale- free network has this really interesting property that it it's robust to random attacks. If you know where the vulnerabilities are which which are these highly connected nodes like hubs like in a like an airport hub and spoke system then you can make either the whole thing fall apart

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