The Hit Farm

Today is a palindrome day — 11-02-2011 — one of only 38 dates this century in which the numbers read the same left to right or right to left. The last time a November palindrome day occurred was Nov. 9, 1911, notes Aziz S. Inan, a professor of It's 11/02/2011 (the way we Americans write [...]

by NPR Staff Barry Duncan constructs a palindrome in a scene from Michael Rossi's documentary The Master Palindromist. "I happen to believe that I can change the world with reversibility," Duncan says. Barry Duncan has an obsession that follows him Just like there are palindromes, sentences that read the same backward and forwards, like. by [...]