Outside/In

I’m haven’t even finished the first season and this has become one of my favorite podcasts. Fascinating, wide ranging and well just darn fun.

So glad I found this show. What an imaginative way to tackle science issues. I’m a convert!

I LOVED the papyrus scroll episode. Highlights the best of community, science and tech. Thanks for your work on sharing this amazing story.

I may have missed it, but I saw no mention of papyrus palimpsests. Scribes used to recycle papyrus scrolls. They would take a previously finished scroll and scrape the content off of it. The scraping did not completely erase the content and it was visible especially in the margins of the new writing That provides a layer of complexity when trying to decipher scrolls. The most famous papyrus palimpsest currently, is the Archimedes palimpsest where 7 treatises of Archimedes and other writings were dismantled in 1250 to make a prayer book. Look it up.