Clothing, right from our first direct evidence twenty thousand years ago, has been the handiest solution to conveying social messages visually, silently, continuously. — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times that the very writing of a message sufficed to keep it from almost everybody. — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no. — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
Clothing, right from our first direct evidence twenty thousand years ago, has been the handiest solution to conveying social messages visually, silently, continuously. — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen… — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any house design,… — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times that the… — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
We decipherers cannot afford to be as picky as the linguist, who can always run back to a native speaker for a few more… — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
