Do All Roads Result in Philosophy on Wikipedia?: They Do About 97.3% of the Time

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Pull up the Wikipedia web page for Mariya Takeuchi’s “Plas­tic Love,” the 1984 sin­gle now identified for re-pop­u­lar­iz­ing the style of Japan­ese “metropolis pop.” Then click on the primary of its hyperlinks (not relat­ed to the lan­guage of the arti­cle itself), which ends up in Takeuchi’s personal web page. In case you maintain fol­low­ing that…

The Roads of Historical Rome Visualized within the Type of Fashionable Subway Maps

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Sasha Tru­wager­skoy, for­mer­ly an beneath­grad at U. Chica­go, has cre­at­ed a “sub­way-style dia­gram of the key Roman roads, primarily based on the Empire of ca. 125 AD.” Draw­ing on Stanford’s ORBIS mod­el, The Pela­gios Mission, and the Anto­9 Itin­er­ary, Tru­wager­skoy’s map com­bines well-known his­toric roads, just like the Through Appia, with much less­er-known ones (in somes cas­es…