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Thursday, November 20, 2025

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Wednesday, November 19, 2025

The Trump administration unveiled a sweeping plan Tuesday to sidestep Congress and outsource large pieces of the U.S. Department of Education ... read more


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Tuesday, November 18, 2025

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Eberly: By "medicine" I was referring to a broad use of the term. surgery, hospitals, etc....not just "medicine".

For surgery, I refer you to pre-Columbian trepanation. European "doctors" were centuries later in mastering it.

academic.oup.com

(I worked on this book.)

Maps. Let's go back to those rampant numbskulls in Central Asia, who Boaz was helping to (...?). Didn't need maps in the 10th century. Let's consider

academic.oup.com

The Genius of their Age provides an overview of the life and works of Ibn Sina and Biruni from Central Asia. Both thinkers achieved stunning breakthroughs in various fields, such as medicine, astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, geography, and physics. Moreover, Biruni and Ibn Sina referenced the works of ancient Greeks and earlier Muslim thinkers to improve their respective canons. While Biruni produced precise measurements of the world, Ibn Sina's grand thesis of medical knowledge became the standard in Europe, the Middle East, and India for the next six centuries. The Genius of their Age also paints a picture of the Arab enlightenment by considering the age when Muslim scientists and philosophers from Central Asia anticipated the Western renaissance of science by half a millennium.

(I worked on this book too).

Biruni, who had never seen an ocean, predicted the existence of North America.

Cristobal Colon? Poser.

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