November 2

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Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that George P. Metesky terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices?

• ... that mathematician and philosopher George Boole was a pioneer of algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic?

• ... that seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water) are vulnerable to both crimes against physics and crimes against chemistry?

Selected Anniversaries

Topic of the Day

Neal Stephenson