However, this isn’t sitting well with people who actually read medieval Latin. Medieval Academy of America director Lisa Fagin Davis told The Atlantic’s Sarah Zhang, “They’re not grammatically correct. It doesn’t result in Latin that makes sense.” She added, “Frankly I’m a little surprised the TLS published it…If they had simply sent to it to the Beinecke Library, they would have rebutted it in a heartbeat.” The Beinecke Library at Yale is where the Voynich Manuscript is currently kept. Davis noted that a big part of Gibbs’ claim rests on the idea that the Voynich Manuscript once had an index that would provide a key to the abbreviations. Unfortunately, he has no evidence for such an index, other than the fact that the book does have a few missing pages.
The idea that the book is a medical treatise on women’s health, however, might turn out to be correct. But that wasn’t Gibbs’ discovery. Many scholars and amateur sleuths had already reached that conclusion, using the same evidence that Gibbs did. Essentially, Gibbs rolled together a bunch of already-existing scholarship and did a highly speculative translation, without even consulting the librarians at the institute where the book resides.
Day: September 11, 2017
Ten dollar sketches round one! I have plenty more slots open for them.
Guillermo del Toro’s highly personal monster film ‘The Shape of Water’ speaks to ‘what I feel as an immigrant’
Obviously the world has changed dramatically since you were shooting this film. I can’t imagine you could anticipate the way those themes would resonate …
I did. And the reason why is that I’m Mexican. I’ve been going through immigration all my life, and I’ve been stopped for traffic violations by cops and they get much more curious about me than the regular guy. The moment they hear my accent, things get a little deeper.
I know it sounds kind of glib, but honestly, what we are living I saw brewing through the Obama era and the Clinton era. It was there. The fact that we got diagnosed with a tumor doesn’t mean the cancer started now.
Hopefully one of the things the movie shows is that from 1962 to now, we’ve taken baby steps — and a lot of them not everyone takes. The thing that is inherent in social control is fear. The way they control a population is by pointing at somebody else — whether they’re gay, Mexican, Jewish, black — and saying, “They are different than you. They’re the reason you’re in the shape you’re in. You’re not responsible.” And when they exonerate you through vilifying and demonizing someone else, they control you.
I think the movie says that there are so many more reasons to love than to hate. I know you sound a lot smarter when you’re skeptical and a cynic, but I don’t care.
But you’re not on a mission to change the way people see genre?
No, I can’t. I know that what I saw when I was a kid had redemptive powers. Some people find Jesus. I found Frankenstein. And the reason I’m alive and articulate and semi-sane is monsters. It’s not an affectation. It’s completely spiritually real to me. And I’m not going to change.
@aprilwitching uhhh have you seen this interview because dang
“some people find jesus. i found frankenstein.”
i… i have never had my me put into words so well. “and the reason i’m alive and articulate and semi-sane is monsters.” fuck. fuck fuck fuck. it me. it’s my heart and my soul and my me.
The idea of otherness being seen as the enemy.
i can’t brain rn but i know what he’s talking about.
yessssssss. i have so many feels about that + “i found frankenstein” but no words. i just. ::inarticulate yearning noise:: it’s the inside of me. i wish i had words.
Reblogging because I’m so happy people are reading this article. Its so present, and relevant and on point. Guillermo inexplicably ‘get’s me’ in a way I’ve never been able to articulate, and he’s talking about himself.
My Daughter’s Transplant Expenses
I hate to keep asking, but we’re hopeful she’ll get her transplant within the next 12 months. And, well, we also need funds to get into a place my ex’s family doesn’t control, away from both him and them.
Every time you say that you only donate to charities and non-profits with extremely low overhead and administrative costs, what you’re actually saying is that you’ll only support charities and non-profits that underpay their employees and stretch them thin because they don’t have the budget to hire enough of them.
Transparency should be the priority here. Not low administrative costs.
#OH MY FUCKING GOD THIS#AS SOMEONE WHO’S WORKED IN A NONPROFIT THAT HAD LIKE THREE PEOPLE AT HEAD OFFICE#AND AT NONPROFITS WITH A STRONG AND LARGE TEAM OF SUPPORT STAFF#IT MATTERS#IT FUCKING MATTERS
THIS.
Also? Especially in really BIG catastrophes, in the IMMEDIATE aftermath?
You want the charities that can MOBILIZE FAST. You CANNOT DO THAT if you are pinching every penny and working to the minimal staffing. You just can’t.
Transparency is important. And a charity should be able to EXPLAIN why each of the dollars they spent is spent the way it is, and it should be a solid reason.
And no, this is not just a factor of Money Is Evil. Even if we weren’t in a monetary-reward situation, value of effort, time and training still exists, as does value of goods, and it would simply turn to a different metric.
Considering all the damage done by Harvey and BEING done by Irma and Jose, this seems like a good time to reblog this.
As someone who works at a nonprofit and lives in a high cost of living area, thank you so much. There is definitely fraud and waste and unscrupulousness at some nonprofits, just like there is anywhere. But many of us are working poor even if we’re not living in abject poverty.
“Just pay the staff less” is… um. Well. Ouch.
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