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Published online 20 November 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news011122-6
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Friends are stranger than strangers
If your friends were normal people they would not know you.
"Your friends are unusual people", says physicist Mark Newman: simply because they are someone's friend.
This is not some homespun philosophy to make us all feel better.
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