I got an email today from John Allen Paulos, a mathematician from Temple University who writes a column for abcnews.com called Who's Counting. He is the author of a rather famous book called Innumeracy as well. He said he's going to include my information on the Liberty University debate team in his column this Sunday, which is pretty cool. I'll link to the column when it goes up.
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