World History
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- How Ancient Greeks Shaped Modern Math
Here's a great animation by the Royal Institution about revolutionary Greek thinkers who shaped our ideas about mathematics. Among the thinkers reviewed are Archimedes, Euclid, Plato and Pythagoras, who show us the importance of proofs. Thanks to...
- Archimedes Takes A Bath
Archimedes takes a bath and comes up with one of the great principles of mathematics in this great three minute TedTalk....
- Farming Got Hip In Iran Some 12,000 Years Ago, Ancient Seeds Reveal
Wow! You have to love it when archaeologists make discoveries which deal with one of our first units of study in World History--Mesopotamia. According to this NPR story, archaeologists have discovered evidence of a stone age farming community at the foot...
- Hitler's Food Taster Tells Of Poisoning Fears
She's 95 and only now telling her story. She was one of Hitler's food tasters during the war. The shame and fear of persecution forced her to keep it secret all these years. But now, according to the story on WTOP's page, she's spilling...
- People Of Timbuktu Save Manuscripts
This great story explains how a 72 year old librarian saved over 2000 Timbuktu manuscripts from Islamist fundamentalists intent on destroying them. Certain that the fundamentalists would not pay mind to an old and illiterate man with a cane, Abdoulaye...
World History
The Archimedes Screw
The NY Times has a great story on Archimedes and his achievements. The screw is perhaps the most important. Engineers recently discovered that if you run the screw backwards, you can create electricity. According to the Times, "unlike the turbine blades that spin in huge hydro-power plants like the Hoover Dam, an Archimedes screw permits fish to swim through it and emerge at the other end almost unscathed."
The screw is not Archimedes only invention. He solved abstract mathematical problems and engineered devices to take advantage of physics.
This story might be a great addition to those of us who teach Greece and World History.
The screw is not Archimedes only invention. He solved abstract mathematical problems and engineered devices to take advantage of physics.
This story might be a great addition to those of us who teach Greece and World History.
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- How Ancient Greeks Shaped Modern Math
Here's a great animation by the Royal Institution about revolutionary Greek thinkers who shaped our ideas about mathematics. Among the thinkers reviewed are Archimedes, Euclid, Plato and Pythagoras, who show us the importance of proofs. Thanks to...
- Archimedes Takes A Bath
Archimedes takes a bath and comes up with one of the great principles of mathematics in this great three minute TedTalk....
- Farming Got Hip In Iran Some 12,000 Years Ago, Ancient Seeds Reveal
Wow! You have to love it when archaeologists make discoveries which deal with one of our first units of study in World History--Mesopotamia. According to this NPR story, archaeologists have discovered evidence of a stone age farming community at the foot...
- Hitler's Food Taster Tells Of Poisoning Fears
She's 95 and only now telling her story. She was one of Hitler's food tasters during the war. The shame and fear of persecution forced her to keep it secret all these years. But now, according to the story on WTOP's page, she's spilling...
- People Of Timbuktu Save Manuscripts
This great story explains how a 72 year old librarian saved over 2000 Timbuktu manuscripts from Islamist fundamentalists intent on destroying them. Certain that the fundamentalists would not pay mind to an old and illiterate man with a cane, Abdoulaye...