{"id":166,"date":"2014-03-18T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T08:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2014\/03\/18\/snoutcast-203-stacy-costa\/"},"modified":"2014-03-18T01:29:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T08:29:00","slug":"snoutcast-203-stacy-costa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2014\/03\/18\/snoutcast-203-stacy-costa\/","title":{"rendered":"SnoutCast #203: Stacy Costa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month, we talked to the world&#8217;s only female <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crosswordtournament.com\/articles\/ct0398.htm\">enigmatologist<\/a>, <b>Stacy Costa<\/b> at the University of Toronto, who helped create the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/yourontarioresearch.ca\/contest\/\">&#8220;Research Matters&#8221; Virtual Scavenger Hunt<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><small>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/malum-iter.com\/snoutcast\/20140318.mp3\">Download mp3<\/a> ]<\/small><\/p>\n<p><i>Show length: 49:49<br \/>File size: 47.8MB<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Our conversation topics included (but were not limited to):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=0253217083\/curtiscchensfree\"><i>The Puzzle Instinct<\/i><\/a>, a book by her mentor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthropology.utoronto.ca\/people\/faculty-1\/faculty-profiles\/marcel-danesi\">Marcel Danesi<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The variety of <a href=\"http:\/\/yourontarioresearch.ca\/contest\/clues\/\">Clues<\/a> in the &#8220;Research Matters&#8221; Virtual Scavenger Hunt<\/li>\n<li>How <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kelloggs.ca\/en_CA\/smartstart.html\">this<\/a> may or may not be the company which hired Stacy to write puzzles for their cereal boxes<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2009\/10\/eugene_varshavsky_sudoku_chess.html\">That guy<\/a> who <a href=\"http:\/\/numberwarrior.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/01\/cheating-at-the-2009-sudoku-championship\/\">cheated at a sudoku competition<\/a> (and was eventually <a href=\"http:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2009\/11\/25\/say-it-aint-so-duku-joe-scandal-rocks-the-puzzle-world\/\">disqualified<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/learn.utoronto.ca\/courses\/memory-and-imagination-the-role-of-enigma\">&#8220;Memory &amp; Imagination: The Role of Enigma,&#8221;<\/a> a University of Toronto Continuing Studies class Stacy will teach this fall<\/li>\n<li>The Toronto Star&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2011\/11\/04\/star_launches_new_puzzle_magazine.html\"><i>That&#8217;s Puzzling!<\/i><\/a> magazine, compiled weekly by Danesi &amp; Costa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stacy_A_Costa\">@Stacy_A_Costa<\/a> on Twitter for more!<\/p>\n<p><b>What Else?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sign up to play <a href=\"http:\/\/playdash.org\/DASH6\/\">DASH 6<\/a> on April 26th in a city near you<\/li>\n<li>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzledpint.com\/\">Puzzled Pint<\/a> on April 8th in Portland, Seattle, London, Missoula, or Chicago<\/li>\n<li>Find more events on <a href=\"http:\/\/puzzlehuntcalendar.com\/\">Puzzle Hunt Calendar<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Tell us we&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/386\/\">wrong on the Internet<\/a>! E-mail <a href=\"mailto:podcast@snout.org\">podcast@snout.org<\/a> or post a comment at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/podcast\">www.snout.org\/podcast<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Music: instrumentals from &#8220;Code Monkey&#8221; and &#8220;The Future Soon&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/jonathancoulton.com\/\">Jonathan Coulton<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/snoutcast\" rel=\"alternate\" type=\"application\/rss+xml\">Subscribe to SnoutCast<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=348528472\">iTunes link<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis\" title=\"Curtis\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" \/>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/DeeAnn.jpg\" alt=\"DeeAnn\" title=\"DeeAnn\" border=\"0\" \/>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/malum-iter.com\/snoutcast\/stacy_costa.jpg\" alt=\"Stacy\" title=\"Stacy\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, we talked to the world&#8217;s only female enigmatologist, Stacy Costa at the University of Toronto, who helped create the recent &#8220;Research Matters&#8221; Virtual Scavenger Hunt! 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