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John Allen Paulos: Who’s Counting?
A reader noticed that Once Upon a Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories is currently in the pile of to-be-read-books and kindly sent the link to John Allen Paulos’ Who’s Counting column at abcnews.com. Thanks, Dan! There’s lots of good stuff in the archives. For example, concerning hidden codes in text: If, to use […]
The Yes Men
Yesterday’s Marketplace had an interview with Andy and Mike, a couple of activists who fight “evil doers”: In 1999, just before the big protests in Seattle, Mike and Andy set up a parody of the WTO website at the domain GATT.org. Some people mistook it for the real thing and wrote in with questions about […]