ROFTER Yair Rosenberg sends the following:
Google Books has a new feature which allows one to graph the occurrence of particular words or phrases and track how frequently they appear in a given literary corpus over the last century. Using this tool, I have managed to encapsulate our civilization’s trajectory in one simple graph .
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