From 4pm to 5pm every Monday to Thursday on the France Culture radio station, Nicolas Martin hosts the programme La Méthode scientifique. This covers PopSci, ‘popular science’: you know, from genetics, VR, AI, evolution, dinosaurs, Star Trek to… whatever it feels like, really. 🙂
As you might expect, today’s programme (which will then be available online immediately) will include a 3-minute segment on the Voynich Manuscript. Which is nice.
I wouldn’t normally mention a 3-minute micro-broadcast on French radio 🙂 , but I thought I’d mention it because it has contributions from Antoine Casanova, who famously (errm… famous round here, that is) wrote a dissertation on Voynichese in 1999: Méthodes d’analyse du langage crypté : une contribution à l’étude du manuscrit de Voynich.
The other listed contributor is Professor Jacques Patarin, who famously (errm… what I said before) worked with Valérie Nachef to decrypt some enciphered letters written by Marie-Antoinette, in their 2009 paper I shall love you up to the death. Which not a lot of people seem to know about. 🙂
Good Morning, y-all ! Well, it is all about the dead today. Sugar candy skulls and black makeup around one’s eyes and mouth. Today is a good day in most of Mexico and, perhaps surrounding areas which were occupied by Spanish invaders. Here in the US, some of us also celebrate this holiday.
I’ll be visiting the Florentine Manuscript website to see if they are celebrating this holiday. There may be some mention in Fray Sahagun’s works — and maybe the “Psalmodia” ?
bd
Since 2016, the manuscript has begun to reveal its secrets. You will find the description of the solution at http://voynich.free.fr/ “Reading the Voynich’s manuscript”