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Here's an upcoming talk at Cambridge's Sidney Sainsbury's Sussex College on 12th October 2011 at 5pm which might be of interest to Voynich researchers. Harvard Professor George Grabowicz promises an interesting couple of hours with his lecture "The Eternal Return of National Mystifications: the Voynich Manuscript, the Book of Vles and the Igor Tale". (It seems to be ...

Cracked.com is running a Photoshop contest - "The retarded Truth behind the World's Greatest Mysteries". Truth be told, my favourite entry is mrlarry's tame dinosaur moving Stonehenge's stones in its mouth. But there are a couple of Voynich Manuscript themed entries too... Sanchez's competition entry (quarter size) The ...

One noticeable thing about the Voynich Manuscript is how theories and hypotheses in the 'cloud of the possible' surrounding it are perpetually trying to enter the mainstream consciousness. From Gordon Rugg's "Verifier" nonsense, to John Stojko's Old Ukrainian, to Leo Levitov's Cathar make-belief, even though they give it their best shot, the ramshackle pile of fairground cans they're aimed at ...