Polina Maksimenko

I went down a Wikipedia rabbit hole

By: Jonah Lazar, Staff Writer I was but an innocent man. I came to Wikipedia simply to find out the average lifespan of a toad so that I could win a very intense argument I was having in a YouTube Shorts comment section.  But then I noticed her . . . and I knew, then and there, that my fate was no longer my own. Clad in #0645AD blue sat my muse: Wikipedia’s hyperlink function. While the hyperlink leads you to millions of different pages, her essence as a vehicle of knowledge, as a steward of the known world, remains…

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