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Lego Antikythera Mechanism
Bookmarked 705 weeks ago by videosift The Antikythera Mechanism: http://bit.ly/fm4oFK is the oldest known scientific computer, built in Greece at around 100 BCE. Lost for 2000 years, it wa |
George Saliba on the Decline of Islamic Science
Bookmarked 438 weeks ago by videosift George Saliba is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Department of Middle East and Asian Studies at Columbia University. He is the author o |
A Flight Through the Universe by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Bookmarked 618 weeks ago by videosift This animated flight through the universe was made by Miguel Aragon of Johns Hopkins University with Mark Subbarao of the Adler Planetarium and Alex S |