Simmons say Havana has long relied on short wave radio to send encoded messages using a system that converts letters into numbers.

VOA: standard.2009.06.06

They might matter a lot because humans have, in general, a confirmation bias such that once you believe something other information is then encoded along the likes to support what you believe.

可能是因为人…,所有人都有确认偏向,也就是说，一旦你相信了某件事,其他信息都会被你解读成,支持你所相信的信息。

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so I can tell you how Julius Caesar encoded his things.

我可以告诉你尤里乌斯·凯撒给文件编码的方式。

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A more intriguing possibility is that our genetic makeup includes a signal encoded by aliens in our DNA that might have been left hundreds of millions of years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16