Sunday, July 18, 2010
A Musical Message Discovered In Plato's Works
July 3, 2010
It sounds like something out of a Dan Brown novel, but a scholar in Manchester, England, claims to have found hidden code in the ancient writings of Plato. If true, the secret messages would have made the ancient philosopher and mathematician a heretic in his day.
Jay Kennedy tells NPR's Guy Raz that his discovery was partially luck. Looking at Plato's works in their original scroll form, he noticed that every 12 lines there was a passage that discussed music. "The regularity of that pattern was supposed to be noticed by Plato's readers," Kennedy says.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128288987&sc=nl&cc=es-20100718
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
The hunt for French bread in Saigon
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/travel/thisweek/stories/DN-vietbread_0711tra.ART.State.Edition1.4fb9c7b.html
