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The Secret Codes That Cartel Bosses Use to Send Handwritten Orders from Prison
Crime syndicates will always adapt in the face of law enforcement's increasingly sophisticated surveillance toolkit.
Finally, a Use for Big Data: Cracking the Voynich Manuscript
Brazilian researchers found some indication that the manuscript, at least, should make sense.
Rewatching 'Windtalkers' Is a Terrible Way to Memorialize the Last Navajo Code Talker
Chester Nez, the last of the Navajo radio operators of World War II, just died at age 93. The only way the media can seem to give his life context is by mentioning Windtalkers, a 2002 box-office flop starring Nicolas Cage.
If I Can’t Be Brain Damaged I Don’t Want to Read
When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a place not otherwise accessible on Earth. Ed Steck's latest novel, The Garden, comes close to that...
The Incredibly Mysterious Voynich Manuscript Still Has Scientists Stumped
Even the NSA tried and failed to decipher it, but the research indicates you shouldn't give up just yet.