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Wikipedia's list of numeral systems lists only $10,20,60$ as having been used in history. There are about twenty-five sets of symbols there used by different groups...
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1 answerDuring the 19th century and before, bad water made drinking alcoholic drinks almost a necessity -- in any case, people drank by modern standards a tremendous amount. I am guessing...
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0 answerFor a long time now, I've been thinking about this: when was the first painting, illustration or depiction of any kind where our planet Earth is seen as a sphere...
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1 answerWhile it is known that William Herschel was both a composer and an astronomer, could it be that he ever wrote music based on astronomy, or how he felt his...
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1 answerThe U.S. picked up a whole bunch of German scientists after World War II in Operation Paperclip. One of the most notable was Wernher von Braun, who jump-started the American...
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4 answerAccording to the folks of Wikipedia, this is the portrait of Euclid of Alexandria (the "Father of Geometry"): Yet, I...
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2 answerI am reading these articles and books about science and I find that there are debates on who was the real (and first) inventor of the laser. Who is the...
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1 answerIn 2014 BICEP2 made a very controversial press release. It was rushed, given before any papers where published, because they feared they would be scooped by another similar experiment....
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1 answerLooking in the past we can easily see that it was Europe who made most of the discoveries in STEM but today USA triumphs in this area. So, how did...
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4 answerIn debates with climate change deniers and creationists, it is often claimed that consensus of scientists is not enough to establish a position beyond dispute. Examples of the problem...
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