Footnotes: Unicorns on Noah’s Ark and the Mark of the Beast on Cap’n Crunch

This week on Footnotes, I accidentally prove that unicorns hitched a ride on Noah’s ark, unless they were able to ride on rainbows above the flood. So in that sense I didn’t prove anything. But I was close.

Also, the mark of the beast shows up where you’d least expect it: in the freezer aisle. Could the ordinary UPC really be the mark? Like with the unicorns, I wasn’t able to prove anything. But I did get to squeeze in a Kindergarten Cop joke, which is nice.

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Articles under discussion this week:
Why the Bar Code Will Always Be the Mark of the Beast
Pixar Animator Dreams Up a New Superhero — For Each Day of the Year

Matt Simon

Matt is the host of Wired's Footnotes show and editor of the This Day in Tech blog, where he writes about all manner of milestones while respectfully declining requests from friends and family to write about their birthdays.

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