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🗓️ 24 April 2014
⏱️ 77 minutes
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1:07.0 | Episode 22. In New York City, in an apartment a few streets away from the center of Harlem, above trees reaching out over sidewalks and dogs pulling at |
1:35.2 | leashes and conversations cut short to avoid parking tickets. |
1:39.6 | A group of professional thinkers once gathered and completed equations that would both snuff and spare |
1:47.2 | several hundred thousand human lives. Oh, People walking by the apartment at the time had no idea that four stories |
2:10.1 | above them some of the most important work in applied mathematics was tilting the scales of a global conflict as secret agents of the United States Armed Forces, arithmetical soldiers engaged in statistical combat, nor could people today know as they open |
2:27.3 | umbrellas and twist heels on cigarettes that nearby, in an apartment overlooking Morningside Heights, one of those soldiers wants |
2:35.7 | effortlessly prevented the United States military from doing something incredibly stupid, |
2:41.4 | something that could have changed the flags now flying in capitals around the world |
2:46.3 | had he not caught it, something you do every day. |
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