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Courtesy of 'Good'

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita knows who's on the BPP tomorrow.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita uses mathematics to predict the future. The subject of Good magazine's upcoming cover is so adept at predicting the future that he even does it for the CIA.

Using our own profoundly complex mathematics, we predict Bueno de Mesquita will appear on our show Friday. But you'll have to tune in, log on, etc., to find out.

Meanwhile, from Good:

For the record, this man is not some lunatic soothsayer sequestered in a musty, forgotten basement office. He is the chairman of New York University's Department of Politics, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the author of many weighty academic tomes. He regularly consults with the CIA and the Department of Defense—most recently on such hot-button topics as Iran and North Korea—and has a new book coming out in the fall that he cowrote with his pal Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. His curriculum vitae, which details his various Ph.Ds, academic appointments, editorial-board memberships, writings, honors, awards, and grants, runs 17 small-font pages long.

Bonus: Math predicts evolution of language