Scrapbook 131 - Objectivity 106 

That sounds a bit dubious.

You are quite sure based on what evidence? Or are you just having a feeling? He is the head librarian for the Royal Society. Keith probably WRITES the wikipedia pages for this stuff...... Come on man.

This book doesnt even have a wikipedia article.

If he would check Wikipedia he would be blabbing all wrong info sir.... Who on earth trusts Wikipedia lol

Wikipedia is reliable to an extent. You have to check where the information is sourced from.

The dynamic duo enthrall us yet again with their masterfull use of whit and metaphor.

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Seconded!

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that is what Brady's partner said...

Yes!

Cheers to that!

I just noticed that too. That's really a quite unusual sight to see.

I guess I should try asking local science organisations then, thanks!

Scientific illustrators are still widely employed for the purpose of creating scientific drawings for publication. Photographs are rarely capable of conveying information in as clear and unambiguous a fashion as that which can be accomplished by a skilled scientific illustrator. It is an art form, to be sure, but it is also a highly specialized skill, and it thankfully remains invaluable as ever, in myriad medical and biological disciplines alike.

Indeed. Just look through a popular science magazine or website and look over all the pictures of stellar objects particularly that read "An artist's interpretation".

Maybe take a look at SciencePhotoLibrary. They take submissions

There's a RU-vid channel called Animalogic. The host is a science illustrator; each episode has her speed draw of the subject animal in the background, and she has her own site. Her name's Danielle Dufault.

Brady STOP! It's a trap. This mastermind is trying to trick you. You do have to respond though because it's the top comment; that's internet law.

I'm sure the dynamic duo partake of a spliff on occasion.

HA! Made me chuckle

djguydan me too

Agreed! Remember to tell all of your friends about us :)

Kudos! Well spotted!

wtf

Just posted about this! thank science for modern calculators, without them my math and physics exams would be an absolute mess.. well more than I already make them

david lagergren it's his speed master that he doesn't shut up about on HI

I think so too. At first, I tried Paleo-Hebrew, since the alphabets are practically identical, but it made no sense. That's probably because I was trying to read from right to left. Reading from left to right, the positioning of the period-like dots makes more sense, and the syllable endings look more like Greek, which I unfortunately don't know. I think the writers 4:41 mirrored the yodh (iota) relative to the canonical orientation, and the shin is on its way to turning into sigma. He (epsilon) and waw (digamma/upsilon) and either pe (pi) or resh (rho) might also be flipped or rotated, and some letters might be simplified, rounded or squared off; I'm not sure about them. However, beth (beta), lamedh (lambda), mem (mu), nun (nu), and ayin (omicron) are very recognizable.

John Wiedenhoeft My first thought too! Not runes. Paleo-Hebrew or Phoenician.

What is your best guess at a translation?

Right, having looked into this myself, they seem to have created digital representations of six items, and created a searchable version of the card catalog, and little official besides that (that is publicly visible anyway). Can anyone else find anything?

Jake get your eyes tested