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Many a tourist has, perhaps happily, gotten lost in the twists and turns along the way to Venice’s Piazza San Marco. How navigable a city is—or could be with an extra footbridge or better-placed signs—is something network models try to quantify. Now, writing in Physical Review Letters, two scientists show how one such model could better account for the way humans actually go about reaching a destination.