Reading Between the Lines


	Reading Between the Lines

einbar

6-9-2008 7:29 AM

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6-9-2008 8:19 AM

syncopath

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Archimedes

6-9-2008 4:21 PM

raven714

Would you buy a book made of goatskin? BAAAAA!
Just think they would sacrifice the goat first then make a book out of them, this is kinda creepy if you ask me.
However, the information that is and will be obtained is very fascinating. BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

6-10-2008 8:57 AM

ofcapri

Very interesting!

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mathematician Archimedes, a hidden text that may be the most important ancient 
scientific document discovered since the Renaissance. As faint lines emerge on a 
large computer monitor at Stanford's Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, I can 
just barely make out the ghostly image of the Greek letter lambda. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/archimedes.html?c=y&page=1"> I have been documenting this experimental use of one of the most sophisticated 
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