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the invisible cable between two people that no wire ever quite replaces
means A link or relationship between two or more things, people, or ideas, whether physical, emotional, or logical.
from From Latin 'connectere,' to bind or fasten together — 'con-' (together) plus 'nectere' (to tie, knot, weave). The same 'nectere' lives on in 'nexus' and 'annex,' all sharing the image of strands knotted into one. English picked it up through Old French, and the word kept its sense of things tied so neatly you can trace the thread from one to the other.
- social pain
- Loneliness lights up the same brain region as physical pain
- neuron sync
- Two people talking sync their brainwaves in real time
- survival need
- Social isolation rivals smoking as a mortality risk
- six degrees
- Most strangers are linked by surprisingly few handshakes
- touch matters
- A brief touch can lower heart rate and stress
trans-siberian railway — 9,289 km rail line connecting moscow to vladivostok, completed 1916
panama canal — 51 km waterway connecting atlantic and pacific oceans, opened 1914
neurotransmitters — chemical messengers like dopamine and serotonin connecting neurons in the brain
silk road — ancient trade network connecting china to mediterranean from 130 bc