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Maybe it’s because I’m a New Yorker, but when I marvel about the interrelatedness of life, I often can’t help hearing in my head the punch line of an ad jingle that was wildly popular around here in the 1990s: “We’re all connected . . . New York Telephone.” That telecommunications company has since evolved almost beyond recognition in response to economic and technological climate change, but the jingle stuck, to the point that uttering “We’re all connected” in any context is still enough to elicit the rejoinder, “New York Telephone.”
And I kept hearing it as we were putting the finishing touches on this issue of The Scientist. All three of May’s features are about connection, albeit occurring across different distances and using an ...
