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1 06, 2026

Deciphering ancient stories (Sandrine Ceurstemont, BBC)

By |2026-06-01T16:45:16-04:00June 1st, 2026|Academia, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Medicine, News, science, Writing|0 Comments

Deciphering ancient stories: another role for AI. From the article: Known as the Borg cipher, the 408-page-long manuscript is mostly incomprehensible – coded using 34 obscure symbols with a few Roman letters and a front page written in Arabic. There was no known key to reveal what was encrypted. Some of the pages are also [...]

8 09, 2024

Leonardo and the science of scent (Tim Brinkhof, Artnet)

By |2024-09-08T17:55:00-04:00September 8th, 2024|Academia, Arts, Europe, Everything Else, Exhibits, History, Medicine, News, painting, science|0 Comments

Leonardo and the science of scent: a recent exhibit explores da Vinci's fascination with smell. From the article: Touted as a multi-sensory, olfactory experience, the exhibition shows that Leonardo got interested in perfumes after comparing the machinations of smell to those of sight and hearing. He collected commercially available perfumes, many of them made [...]

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