He doesn’t seem to know who brought the alphabet to Europe…
The Phoenicians?
The Phoenician alphabet descends from the Proto-Sinaitic script though. So a bunch of nomads developed Egyptian hieroglyphs into a script to write proto-Canaanite inscriptions, which was the common ancestor of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, the Ancient South Arabian script, and the Phoenician alphabet
How about the number system , we all be using Roman number system if it wasn’t for Arab mathematics.
Technically Arabs just brought over the Indian system. Would be fun if e.g. Slavs brought it instead, and it would be called Slavic numerals.
didn’t Arabs also introduce zero?
I don’t know how one would have a positional numeral notation without zero, even if it’s denoted by an empty space. Sure enough, reportedly the symbol for zero appeared in the Hindu numerals, derived from the non-positional Brahmi system. Although apparently both ancient Babylon and China already had their own positional notations, both with a space for zero.
Arabs added a system for fractions instead.
Algebra
Just written language, math, and the basic foundation of scientific advancement. Without those things, the brain worm might have prevented us from having to deal with him.
All right, but aside from written language, math and basic foundation of scientific advancement, what have the Arabs ever done for us?!
Aqueducts…?
Water you even saying?
Your humor is so dry
I want to make a joke about you making me moist, but instead I’ll just make a reference to making that joke as I think it’s less painful. lol. I get to make the joke AND have it not be quite as awkward. :)
Don’t worry… I’ll make it awkward
If by awkward you mean awesome :)
Actually I believe the first recorded, archeological proof of an aqueduct goes back to Assyria, and then at some point the Romans copied the design and put them everywhere, all of this being LONG before Islam was even a thing. History is full of similar instances where the person/entity who famously used X was NOT the inventor, and instead stole it from someone else first
Arabs were also a thing before Islam.
Very true, but I don’t believe they used aqueducts. Or at least, they didn’t invent the idea, which is what I was pointing out
Chess?
Which, coincidentally, is originally Indian just like ‘Arabic numerals’.
Motherfucker the Arabs invented algebra.
Too bad Algebra doesn’t have that much of a use, except, it complicates matters. Why do we even need it when basic mathematics cover about 90% of the things we need to calculate things by?
Edit of shame: Fuck, I fed the trolls.
You’re an embarrassment of a user. Algebra has little to no use, period. Deal with it.
Arabs invented science.
at the very least some numerals
They literally saved Greek science and mathematics from extinction during the dark ages. Sure, Arabic mathematics had its mini dark age when they decided everything should be human words only to make it easier to understand for humans, then they realized that wasn’t the way to go.
Most glassware you see in a modern chemistry lab. Oh and not to mention the stills used to make hard liquor.
Watch them try to ban Arabic numerals and force everyone to use Roman numbers again.
I really REALLY want this to happen. It would be such a perfect example of how incredibly ignorant they are and the complete lack of understanding they have for the world around them.
Like the time a city banned “di-hydrogen monoxide” for like a day until they realized it was just a fancy name for H2O lol
It’s not even a fancy name, it’s very literally the scientific name of it…the shit you learn in high school science classes
Nice of you to assume that magats went to school.
Like the time a city banned “di-hydrogen monoxide” for like a day until they realized it was just a fancy name for H2O lol
That’s not quite the story…
Viejo, California put a proposal on its agenda to ban plastic foam containers over the chemicals used in making them. In the proposal they listed “dihydrogen monoxide”, among other things, presumably because they likely added it to the list after failing to identify a satire website, and it went viral, mostly in right-wing circles that hate anything that protects the environment.
It never got past the proposal stage, and the “dihydrogen monoxide” part wasn’t even the reason why. They never actually banned water and had to walk that back, a Republican lied to you to make you think that.
I think my high school chemistry teacher told us that as a reason why it’s important to know the periodic table or something, idk what their political motivations were.
But I guess even before AI stories were getting twisted and changed to fit narratives or serve personal purposes. Thanks for the info tho, always good to know more info.
But I really like zero.
Ave, true to Caesar!
Robert F. Kennedy admits he is an ignorant fool when it comes to discussing science and literature.
FtFY
Coming from someone who is about as bright as the inside of a black hole, sounds about right for worm brain.
a wormhole rfk jr is.
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I mean Abdul Alhazred wrote the Necronomicon, which I consider to be both science and literature.
Praise be to Yog Sothoth!
And let’s not forget Dick Dale’s contributions to music.
That was a painful watch.
But lets break this down:
His argument is that hatred, war, and victimization cause a reduction in contribution to science and literature.
You asshole, quit pointing your fingers at others and start cleaning up your own damn house.
Republican brain time: That means Donald Trump is a secret Arab!
His argument is that hatred, war, and victimization cause a reduction in contribution to science and literature.
I mean, in general, that’s not exactly wrong.
But the fact that these stupid apes are the ones talking about anyone or anywhere else is so absurd, given they are actively carrying out actions causing a historic brain drain in America. Him making generic claims about 500M people is really quite a choice, given what a handful of dipshits like him in this administration are carrying out.
I heard The Dems were trying to get kids in school to use Arabic numerals
Gaasp!
What science or literature has Brainworms produced?
All I see this asshat doing is trying to sabotage proven medicine we already have, set American research back decades, and generally carry on with the conservative project of trying to roll back the Enlightenment as whole.
He can go fuck himself. It’s fine if he’s not producing science himself, but at the very least, he should get the fuck out of the way of those that can. Certainly, he should shut the fuck up about what others produce when he beclowns himself on the regular when he talks about science.
how to convince people to do heroin most likely.
My brother tried telling me about how all great advancements came from Europe and European descendants.
I brought up the Islamic Golden Age of Science and he immediately questioned if it was real…
algebra chemistry alcohol
Rfk knows one of those words. But he doesn’t know they’re Arabic words.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_terms_derived_from_Arabic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Arabic_origin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_Arab_scientists_and_engineers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pre-modern_Arab_scientists_and_scholars
Gauze comes from Gaza.
Just last year Omar M. Yaghi, a Palestinian, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
TIL: candy is an Arab word!
Firstly that’s super fucking racist. Secondly, the Islamic golden age famously involved a hell of a lot of science and literature being produced bt Arabs. Thirdly, in recent history there was one famous Arab guy who was so committed to producing literature he was writing books while working an extremely high stress job.
TIL. I don’t think I will read them but I’ll remember they exist.
The Arab world hasn’t been a major force in science or literature for a while, but if you go back a couple of centuries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age
The Islamic Golden Age was a period of cultural flourishing in the history of Islam, dated from the 8th century CE to the 14th century.[1][2][3][n 1] The period is understood to have begun during the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (786–809), with the establishment of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, one of the world’s largest cities at the time. The institution attracted scholars from across the Muslim world to translate the classical knowledge of the known world into Arabic.[4] In addition to Baghdad, the intellectual and cultural activity also flourished in other urban centers of the medieval Islamic world, including Cairo, and Umayyad Córdoba (capital of Al-Andalus), as well as Damascus, Nishapur, Samarkand, Ghazni, Kairouan, and Fez,[5] and in later centuries, Nasrid Granada.
The period is said to have ended with the collapse of the Abbasid caliphate following the Mongol invasions and the Siege of Baghdad in 1258.[6][7] Select scholars extend the end of the golden age to around 1350, thereby including the Timurid Renaissance.[8][9] Others extend it to the 15th century, including the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, whose court remained an important centre of scholarship, culture and literature, or even to the 16th century, incorporating the rise of the Islamic gunpowder empires.[10][1][2][3]
So what if it’s not currently the major force? Last year’s Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry was Jordanian, for example.
To be completely honest, RFK is saying exactly that: the cultural output of the Arab world stagnated. I disagree completely with the why (Muslim brotherhood), but it is true the output in the sciences is not the same as during the golden age.
The irony of someone like RFK jr trying to deflect while he is in an administration actively stagnating our sciences while being cheered on by mobs of religious extremists is just…chef’s kiss.
Trump admin hates on the Muslim brotherhood while striving to follow the same steps with Christian nationalism. Extremist Islam is MAGA dream world with another flavor.
My issue with describing it as “not contributing to the sciences” by comparing it to the golden age is that it ignores the baseline scientific work that Arab PhDs, postdocs, and professors do contribute. I mean, the entire Iranian sanction thing right now is throwing a knot into the US university research systems that do allow foreign students and professors to participate, and much of their tuition dollars go towards student assistance for residential students. Just because it is not a bit new thing in science, does not mean that Arabs do not contribute to sciences.
It’s almost like empires flourish and then - don’t…might be something RFK jr and donnie might want to brush up on. Might be that people end up writing about how America was once the source of a lot of advancements and now is some zealotry-filled backwater run by extremist assholes.
