O’Neil saw firsthand how really really bad math could lead to financial disaster. Disillusioned, O’Neil became a data scientist and eventually joined Occupy Wall Street’s Alternative Banking Group. With her popular blog mathbabe.org, O’ Neil emerged as an investigative journalist. Her acclaimed book Weapons of Math De

reality. The Occupiers are a reality that became a myth. The spirit of nonviolent revolution is what connects them. NPR waited until eleven days of Occupy Wall Street had passed before reporting its existence. The executive news editor explained that the Occupiers “did not involve large numbers of people” (actually

mpletely ethereal techniques: Text messages, video postings, chat rooms. Similar movements appear around in the world. In Iran, in Italy, in Russia. “Occupy Wall Street”, blossoms in New York City, a protest against wealth inequality and finance. It becomes a self-franchising social movement, appearing in hundreds of

ainstream communities, living in tent cities with Occupy Wall Street protesters and tracking down drug dealers on <a h