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Plato's Time Capsule

Escher's snakesHere's a fascinating bit of science news, as yet completely unreported, that should work its way into the mainstream media fairly quickly: Plato left coded messages in his books. Academics have always dismissed such a possibility as fantasy, but now Dr. Jay Kennedy of the University of Manchester has proven that Plato's coded messages exist. What appropriate timing! Plato hid his messages about the supremacy of science for fear of being put to death for heresy. Over two thousand years later, in an age of science, we find them just when radical western clerics have begun their counter-attack on empirical truth.

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The Guardian, a UK paper — that figures — is the first to run with it. I guess it's taking editors elsewhere a while to find classics experts for comment...

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