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How to live an intellectually rich life - by Utsav Mamoria

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.. and how living one is easier than you think

Go to the main page of Wikipedia. Click any link that leads to a Wikipedia entry. For that page, click the first hyperlinked word in the main text. Keep doing it - Your journey will look something like this. Now, try this for several pages. Make them as varied as Nuclear Gandhi, Cow Tipping, and Exploding Trousers. All of them will lead you to the Wikipedia entry on Philosophy. In 2017, three mathematicians from the University of Vermont published a paper titled Connecting Every Bit of Knowledge: The Structure of Wikipedia’s First Link Network. They tested this hypothesis over a dataset…

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