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Looking at Patterns, Not People A review of The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You, by Mark Buchanan. Buchanan suggests that people are like atoms, obeying simple rules with "lawlike" regularity
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