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246: No Such Thing As The Worm Revolution

No Such Thing As A Fish

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An Anagrammas Is Like Blockchain

An anagrammas was something that fascinated people during the enlightenment. They were thought to portend certain things, like you say, if your name could spell something bad. But also they were used by lots of scientists as a way of concealing their discoveries whilst also kind of stamping them as their own. People like Galileo and Robert Hooke would record their initial results as an anagram and send it off when they hadn't actually confirmed their results yet.

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