Blog: Words & Numbers
Words & Numbers is about discovering new ideas in tech, design, business, books, and the pseudorandom. It’s also about analyzing how words and numbers can enlighten or confound.
- Best Of has a selection of favorites.
- Topics organizes posts by topic.
- Archive lists every post by year.
- lets you choose your own adventure.
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Recent Posts
- Review: Adam Higginbotham’s “Challenger”
The Challenger disaster happened in an instant, but Adam Higginbotham shows it was years in the making, one accepted risk at a time.
- Noticed, September 2026
Untold Holmesian tales, Beautiful Public Data, Tilly the platypus, “The Egg”
- My Father’s Space Age
Klaus Krause captured America at its best with envelopes postmarked at the launches, landings, and first flights of the Space Age.
- Woe Is Em: The Sad Lifecycle of an AI Tell
In 2025, the em dash became AI’s most infamous tell. In 2026, that’s changing, leaving a cautionary tale behind.
- For the Love of Holmes
The world’s most famous detective shows how much more can be known when one is smarter about knowing.