What The Ancients Knew – India
Just happened upon this series on India’s history on The Science Channel tonight. Love when I watch something about India and it’s actually good! Here’s the description of the 60 min episode in which I only caught the last half hour (they also have episodes on Chinese and Greeks):
Long before the Western world was known, India provided the world with its riches. However, India’s invaluable contributions to science and technology have all too often been overlooked. Few know how profoundly India has shaped the modern world.
So grab your remote controllers and Tivo that baby!!! (and I’m going to give MIM a great big kiss for discovering cotton!)
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aww I missed it I will have to look to find out when it’s on again to watch it I would like to see it too. Glad you shared it with us
Yes, we invented sex during the day, long before Europeans could even think about it. Take that westerners!
But we fell behind on calculus, celestial mechanics, the steam engine, electricity, the transistor, the assembly line, aeronautics, astronautics, topology, astrophysics, quantum physics, and relativity.
That’s all.
For those of you with Comcast OnDemand, PBS is running a 6 part series “The History of India” I am spending this snowy Philadelphia night watching them.
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