Omnipelagos is an unusual search engine that lets you find "six degrees of separation" type connections between any two terms you enter. It's a great way to find out all kinds of random trivia.
For writers, it could be used either for brainstorming or finding a way to work together seemingly unrelated topics. For comedians, it's a source of instant material.
Here's an example of the output, how is creativity related to squirrels?
- Creativity
- [Creativity in psychology & cognitive science / Neurobiology of creativity] frontal lobe, and they are able to modulate neurotransmitters such as norepinephrine in their frontal lobe.
- Neurotransmitter
- chemicals that are used to relay, amplify and modulate electrical signals between a neuron and another cell.
- Electricity
- [Diet and feeding behavior] Squirrels are often the cause of electricity outages. The animals will enter transformers or capacitors looking for food
- Squirrel
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