Skeptophilia

I've written here before about the monumental difficulty of translating written text when you (1) don't know what the character-to-s...

I'm always fascinated by a good mystery, and that's definitely the appropriate category for an artifact called the Phaistos Disk . F...

I'm always fascinated by a good mystery, and that's definitely the appropriate category for an artifact called the Phaistos Disk . F...

If you've ever used Google Translate, you've probably noticed that it can be a little wonky. Take, for example, the anecdote about t...

[ N.B. : This post is a little on the technical side, if you're not a biology type.  Trust me, the work is worth it, because what these ...

Being a linguistics geek, I've posted here more than once about odd mysteries in language decipherment that have been tackled in the pas...

I'm always fascinated by a good mystery, and that's definitely the appropriate category for an artifact called the Phaistos Disk . ...

In my Latin and Greek classes, I always warn my students to avoid Google Translate. It's not that it's a bad tool, honestly, as lo...

One of the things I find amusing about people who argue over the meaning of passages in the bible is that so few of them seem to recognize t...