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The Voynich Manuscript Part 7 : Further Dating Studies I present here more evidence in support of my suggestion that the Voynich manuscript may date from a period between 1350 to 1450, perhaps even…

I have often found reference to medieval and early modern folks most helpful in debugging things that have bugged me since I did science when I was a student in the Sixties (for me they did not swing…

We've all heard how the wheel is one of man's greatest inventions, and there are many theories or ideas regarding how it was achieved.  Certainly it seems rather plausible that rolling logs…

The Struggle for Existence was the title Charles Darwin gave to Chapter Three of On The Origin of Species, and he went to some trouble to explain exactly what he meant by this struggle. Throughout…

If there's one thing you've heard over and over, it's that mean old religion has always been the enemy of science.   It isn't true, of course, but at least in America, with its Protestant…

The Voynich Manuscript part 6 : The Other Babylon When I first saw images from the Voynich manuscript, I was interested in the unusual script.  As a linguist, my first thoughts were about the…

The Voynich Manuscript part 5 : The Baghdad Connection The most obviously strange feature of the Voynich manuscript is its unknown script.  Quite simply put, the script cannot plausibly be shown…

The Voynich Manuscript part 4 : Not So Mysterious ? The Voynich manuscript was written in an as yet unreadable script.  It is named after Wilfrid Voynich, who acquired it as a dealer in 1912…

There are things or entities in or on an object that could be present and be proven to exist by experiments and yet one can not see because they are too small to be seen by our naked eyes or some…

In 1981 Robert Axelrod and Bill Hamilton published a paper titled The Evolution of Cooperation in which they analyzed game theory as a means of explaining the emergence of cooperative behaviour. In…