SYMHC Classics: Voynich Manuscript Update

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🗓️ 16 September 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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New theories have emerged that make it the right time to once again go back to an old favorite, the Voynich Manuscript. Since our Voynich Manuscript episode first published, the inscrutable book has been in the news a lot. What are the latest theories?

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0:34.7	Our classic episode today is one that has been all over the news recently.
0:39.3	On September 5, 2017, the Times Literary Supplement published an article called
0:44.7	Voynich Manuscript, The Solution, by Nicholas Gibbs,
0:48.6	which purportedly decoded the Voynich Manuscript.
0:52.3	Okay, we were immediately skeptical for a few reasons.
0:56.6	One is that the Times Literary Supplement builds itself as quote,
1:00.1	the leading international weekly for literary culture.
1:03.3	But it's not an academic journal or otherwise subject to peer review.
1:06.8	So that kind of, you know, maybe lovely,
1:11.4	but that doesn't always make it a scientifically representative public.
1:15.7	Sure.
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