This article is an expanded version of a twitter “essay” I wrote a few months ago. If you are interested, you can find the original here: https://twitter.com/WBLievers/status/834396497793974272.

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It began —as a great many things do— with Taylor Swift. I was scanning the references in an old paper when two names leapt off the page. Continue reading →