From Wired magazine:
Gordon Rugg cracked the 400-year-old mystery of the Voynich manuscript. Next up: everything from Alzheimer’s to the origins of the universe.
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In 1996, he and his colleagues developed a rigorous method for peering over the shoulders of experts – doctors, software engineers, pilots, physicists – watching how they work and think, testing their logic, and uncovering ways to help them solve problems.
Rugg calls it the verifier approach, and the Voynich was its first major test. If Rugg gets his way, verifiers will revolutionize the scientific method and help solve other seemingly unsolvable mysteries, such as the origins of the universe or the cause of Alzheimer’s disease.
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