 For Summer 2007, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created an online course for high school students built around the book.In its February 19, 2010 investigative summary on the 2001 anthrax attacks, the Federal Bureau of Investigation suggested that Bruce Edwards Ivins was inspired by the book to hide secret codes based upon nucleotide sequences in the anthrax-laced letters he allegedly sent in September and October 2001, using bold letters, as suggested on page 404 of the book.It was also suggested that he attempted to hide the book from investigators by throwing it in the trash.