Dr. Keri Thomas joins us to talk about medieval manuscripts, death, and the possibility of digital resurrection. Are we entering a digital dark age, or are our mortal souls bound for the cloud?
Highlights:
[0:00] CoRri tells Keri and Marko about Europe's werewolf trials
[28:53] We dive right in with an introduction to Dr. Keri Thomas that spirals into a discussion of how digitization and resurrection are related
[66:03] We talk about the super metal way medieval manuscripts were made, how people would have read them, and how people lived so closely acquainted with death
[91:42] We talk a bit more about the Voynich Manuscript, which we discussed at length on the Laydown Podcast! Go listen!
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Stuff we referenced:
Ep. 111: Too hot for Comic-Con
Ep. 110: A bag o' bodies
Ep. 109: Ghost science
Ep. 108: When teens fly
Ep. 107: Games that go bump in the night
Ep. 106: Forensic psychiatry
Ep. 105: Murphy's law
104: Irregularity
Ep. 103: Queen Elizadeath
Ep. 102: Folk deities
Ep. 101: Mormon (w/ Hollywood Steve!)
Ep. 100: The one-hundredth one!
Ep. 99.5: Zombie pigs and movie recs
Ep. 99: Ask a boffin – surviving the unsurvivable
Ep. 98: Gratui-titty
Ep. 97: Deep dark cuts
Ep. 96: What even is a UK?
Ep. 95: Superhumans
Ep. 94: Such highs and lows
Ep. 93: Gotta get Gowron Friday
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