Scientists who worked on qibla determination
Ahmad ibn 'Abdallah Habash Hasib Marwazi (766 - d. after 869 in Samarra, Iraq ) was a north-eastern Iranian astronomer, geographer, and mathematician from Merv in Khorasan who for the first time described the trigonometric ratios: sine, cosine, tangent and cotangent. He flourished in Baghdad, and died a centenarian after 869. He worked under the Abbasid caliphs al-Ma'mun and al-Mu'tasim. (Wikipedia).
Golden age of Islam | World History | Khan Academy
The Abbasid Caliphate becomes a center of learning from the 9th to the 13th centuries, collecting the knowledge of India, China and ancient Greece while also making significant new contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, medicine and geography. Practice this yourself on Khan
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RubyConf 2017: That time I used Ruby to crack my Reddit password by Haseeb Qureshi
RubyConf 2017: That time I used Ruby to crack my Reddit password by Haseeb Qureshi I lost my password. So I used Ruby to crack it, kinda. I will re-enact the story live in front of a group of strangers. I'm going to be honest, this is a weird and fairly embarrassing story. You probably s
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Origins of ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria)
Support CaspianReport through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CaspianReport In the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Saddam Hussein, the man who ruled the country with an iron fist, was captured. He was then executed by the new Iraqi government. However despite what most people
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Origins of the crisis in Yemen
Support CaspianReport through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CaspianReport In a previous CaspianReport, released back in 2011, we argued about the likelihood of a civil war in Yemen and that the Iranian back Houthi rebellion would trigger a new front in the ongoing Saudi-Iranian cold wa
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Branches of Islam & Family Tree of Shia Imams
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Why is it so hard to cure ALS? - Fernando G. Vieira
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AlphaFold: The making of a scientific breakthrough
The inside story of the DeepMind team of scientists and engineers who created AlphaFold, an AI system that is recognised as a solution to "protein folding", a grand scientific challenge for more than 50 years. Find out more: deepmind.com/alphafold Protein references: TBP = To be publ
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Lester Mackey, Stanford University - Stanford Big Data 2015
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Prisoners' dilemma and Nash equilibrium | Microeconomics | Khan Academy
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